Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Manager

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About PEFE

Palestine Education for Employment (PEFE), established in 2009, is an affiliate of Education for Employment (EFE Global- US), EFE Europe and six other NGO’s in Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Tunisia, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia as well as a representative office in Dubai. The PEFE network shares a common vision of empowering unemployed university and technical college graduates with the skills and opportunities they need to build careers that ensure a brighter future for them and satisfy the employment needs of the organizations they are employed in.

Objective of the Programme

The Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) is a £10mn programme which aims to address barriers to women’s economic inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. AWEF aims to increase economic opportunities and benefits for 150,000 poor women in the region and support women’s economic empowerment through a market development approach. The programme will be implemented over five years (2015-2020) in Palestine, Jordan and Egypt. AWEF is funded by DFID in partnership with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) who will provide a further £10mn of support to the programme.

Scope of Work

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager will be responsible for the overall Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning (MEL) and Knowledge Management system of the programme, ensuring programme performance meets client, corporate and programme quality standards. The MEL Manager will develop the MEL strategy and Monitoring Framework and System including strong performance management indicators. They will ensure baseline data collection is conducted at the start of the programme and that data is collected regularly against the Programme’s logical framework indicators. They will be responsible for creating a monitoring and communications strategy in collaboration with the other AWEF MEL Managers which ensures that lessons learned are incorporated into activities to achieve greater impact. As part of their role they will also be required to produce monitoring and evaluation reports, biannual summaries of lessons learned from all aspects of the programme to package and disseminate publically in the Learning Hub, and biannual recommendations for programme improvements and adaptations.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Accountabilities

-Accountable for the successful implementation of the MEL strategy and Monitoring Framework and System of the programme in country, ensuring client, corporate and programme standards are fully met;
-Accountable for acting as a focal point and a source of expertise and energy for monitoring, evaluation and learning across the Programme;
-Accountable for ensuring specified MEL activities are accurately costed and logged into Programme Risk Matrix
-Where required bring in additional support using the technical assistance fund to support with data collection and other monitoring activities.
-Accountable for country contributions to the Learning Hub

Programme Implementation & Reporting

Design and implementation of MEL system

-Lead for AWEF in country on the development of a detailed and robust MEL system in collaboration with Market Share Associates (MSA) and the Results Measurement Specialist, including defining and operationalising the results framework (logical framework) for market strategies and other supporting tools which meet DFID’s standards and are fit for the purpose this programme focussing on the inclusion of women.
-Lead on monitoring, evaluation and learning activities for the AWEF in their country in collaboration with the country team and MSA and the Results Measurement Specialist, and collaborate with other AWEF MEL Managers on MEL activities in their countries and overall Logframe progress and planning.
-Provide support to Programme Partners on the construction and commissioning of the M&E and Results Chain framework, and ensure baseline, midline and endline data is collected taking ownership of the dataset for AWEF, and routinely monitoring against it;
-Monitor the implementation of all activities on an on-going basis through site visits, receiving reports from implementing partners and obtaining feedback from the recipients of assistance
-Input regular monitoring information from programme interventions into AWEF Information Management Systems (TAMIS) to enable real-time learning and feedback loops
-Uphold high standards of monitoring and evaluation principles and ensure adherence to DFID and Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) principles
-Contribute to incorporation of Value for Money indicators into MEL systems which balance Equity and Effectiveness with Efficiency and Economy dimensions, ensuring that AWEF monitors, demonstrates and learns from VfM;
-Promote an evaluation culture, focused on standards, quality assurance/control and capacity development in the programme Office
-Provide timely and accurate inputs into the Inception Report, Operations Manual and quarterly and annual reports.

Learning Hub

-Develop and implement the Communication and Knowledge Management Strategy in collaboration with MSA and the other AWEF MEL Managers.
-Ensure that programme data is reliably disaggregated (according to agreed criteria) and captured, stored safely and securely (using adapted standard database software) and robustly analysed
-Set database of studies (baseline studies) and training materials (impact oriented measurement OPM) and others
-Plan dissemination activities including quarterly workshops, learning and sharing events, information platforms, websites, publications

Relationship management

-Programme partners and external M&E/research service providers: Build and maintain productive relationships with the MEL Managers of other programmes, and the DFID-contracted external M&E/research service providers.


Other

-Coordinate with other DAI programmes that are being implemented in the region – ensuring effective collaboration and efficiency of operations
-Take responsibility for own continuous professional development by proactively identifying and participating in formal/informal learning opportunities 
-Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Country Director and Team Leader