Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Lead at Mott MacDonald Tanzania

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Lead
Country: Tanzania, United Republic of
Position Location: Dodoma or Dar Es Salaam
Contract Type: Contract
Work Pattern: Full Time
Sector: International Development
Discipline: International development
Job Ref: 3728
Recruiter Contact: Shailesh Chougule

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Lead at Mott MacDonald Tanzania August 2024

Job Description:
The
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Lead will work closely with
MEL Adviser, Learning and Influencing Adviser, VFM Adviser and the
Learning and Evaluation (L&E) provider to design and deliver the MEL
strategy and contribute to development and monitoring of the Logframe.
H/she will be responsible for the design, deployment and use of
appropriate data/evidence collection, management, performance monitoring
and reporting tools across the programme outcome areas and within
government systems.

H/she will manage the MEL team to use and
strengthen existing data systems, build capacity of government to use
data and evidence to improve accountability, citizens’ engagement, and
governance. The MEL Lead will supervise and deliver on the Managing
Agent’s role and contributions to the programme’s learning agenda, in
partnership with the L&E Provider and the Learning and Influencing
Adviser, including special studies, baseline and evaluation projects.

The
MEL Lead will also manage the programme’s database, data quality
assurance and compilation of performance reports (including progress
reports). H/she will also oversee generation of evidence to inform all
learning within the programme.

The position requires being able
to lead a team of MEL Officers and to train counterparts in analytic
skills required for effective monitoring and evaluation systems. The
position will also backstop colleagues to implement results-based
monitoring and evaluation for the project. This will involve building
understanding of pertinent theories of change, mapping out impact
pathways and the corresponding hierarchies of objectives; specification
of indicators of success along the impact pathways.

The MEL Lead will:
Core Technical Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of the monitoring, evaluation and learning system for the project.
• Lead in using monitoring and evaluation system as a tool for learning and managing for results
• Lead
  in the design and implementation of situational analyses,
  baseline/midline/endline surveys, sampling design, learning assessments,
  impact evaluation and/or policy related research.
• Backstop the
  senior management team (SMT) in facilitating learning processes and
  integrating insights from the learning process into decision-making
  processes.
• Lead capacity building processes for MEL within the Shule Bora Programme (including partners and GoT)
• Provide quality control for monitoring data and evaluation reports by colleagues and contractors
• Provide
  expertise and resources in the area of digitisation of GoT Education
  Management Information Systems, and support CE initiatives aimed at
  deploying digital platforms for routine monitoring across MM projects.
• Lead the development and maintenance of the SB database and dashboards to enable regular stock checks to track progress.
• Working
  closely with government counterparts, support an audit of all
  government data systems in the basic education sub sector and determine
  what adjustments or improvements are needed to meet the information
  requirements of the SB programme.
• Provide assistance to the
  preparation of the EPforR Annual Reports, the Government’s Annual
  Education Sector Performance Reports (AESPR) and PO-RALG’s publication:
  Basic Education Statistics Tanzania (BEST).
• Support the PforR sub-component of the project including data analysis and preparing the computation of annual claims.
• Work closely with the Learning and Evaluation (L&E) provider to design and deliver the programme MEL strategy.
• Spearhead
  the compilation of performance reports (including progress reports) and
  oversee generation of evidence to inform all learning and
  communications interventions within the programme.
• Lead the process of recruiting and supervising contractors on MEL.
• Line manage the MEL Officers while quality assuring the products by these experts.
• Work in line with the Shule Bora operating principles.

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Candidate Specification:
Essential competencies and experience

• Deep understanding of the educational context in Tanzania
• Demonstrated monitoring and evaluation and data analysis experience, including ability to handle and process large datasets
• Previous experience of working within the constraints of government systems in Tanzania
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise and manage own time for maximum efficiency
• Excellent strategic thinking, planning and communication skills
• Excellent spoken and written English and Kiswahili
• Willingness to be pro-active, responsive and flexible to the changing requirements of the project
• Excellent
  IT skills and confidence in Outlook, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint,
  databases (e.g. Access), field data collection (e.g. Kobo or ODK), data
  visualisation (e.g. Power BI or Tableau) and statistical packages (e.g.
  R, SPSS or STATA)
• A team player with experience of working within team hierarchies and towards the common vision of a programme
• Strong ability to foster and build networks, and maintain diplomatic relations with different stakeholders

Desirable

• A publication record in peer reviewed journals a definite plus.

Education

• At least a master’s degree in education, gender, international development or related subject
• Formal training in MEL or project management

Project Description:
The
UK aid funded Shule Bora programme aims to improve the quality of
pre-primary and primary schools in Tanzania. The programme’s Impact
Statement is: Shule Bora will deliver improved quality, inclusiveness,
and safety of learning for boys and girls. There are four outcomes:
Learning: All children* are learning in school.

Teaching: UKAID supports the strengthening of Tanzania’s teaching workforce.
Inclusion:
All children are in schools that are safe, offer an environment
conducive to learning and that this enables children to complete primary
education and progress to secondary education.
Systems building:
UKAID supports government in strengthening the value for money** of
education provision at school, local and national level.
* The term
‘all children’ infers particular attention to the most disadvantaged:
girls, the disabled and those living deprived areas **Value for money is
defined as a composite of economy, efficiency, effectiveness and equity

The programme will: Work with Ministry of Education, Science
and Technology (MOEST) and the President’s Office Regional
Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG) to test, adapt and
implement at scale quality, gender-transformative, disability-inclusive
and safe to learn education approaches in 9 regions, generating learning
and evidence on how to achieve these outcomes affordably and at scale.

Support
GoT with the timely and effective implementation of the PforR mechanism
through technical assistance and capacity building, with a strong focus
on data verification, financial management and risk management. Support
lesson learning processes from PforR so that these can be embedded into
government processes and shared with development partners and other key
stakeholders. Ensure that lessons and best practice from (1) are used
to inform PfR mechanism.

Manage and coordinate programme
activities, with a strong focus on (i) ensuring a high-quality
programme, financial and risk management oversight, (ii) working with an
independent Learning and Evidence (L&E) provider on establishing
regular, rigorous and community-driven monitoring and evaluation
activities, and (iii) developing and implementing a strategy for
effective communication of Shule Bora objectives, results, and lessons
learned to a range of target audiences.

The Application closing date is 27th August 2024.

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