TIF - MEL Associate

Project Background:

The USAID/Lebanon Trade and investment Facilitation (TIF) Activity will facilitate the export of Lebanese goods and services to generate foreign exchange through investments and business enabling environment reform that simultaneously promote job creation, income generation, and improved livelihoods throughout the country. TIF has three objectives: 1) increased exports of Lebanese goods and services, 2) investment facilitation leading to increased domestic investment, and 3) improved business and investment enabling environment. Communicating results through outreach and sharing knowledge with private and public sectors is a crosscutting objective.

Purpose:

The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Associate will report to the MEL Specialist and be responsible for data collection and analysis and MEL activities across the project.

Responsibilities and Key Tasks:

• With guidance from MEL Specialist and CLA Director, collect data on ongoing activities.
• Assist in updating TIF’s database and its Indicators Performance Tracking Table – IPTT.
• Assist in updating and sharing TIF dashboard on quarterly basis and inform technical team on progress made towards yearly targets set.
• Update and generate quarterly mapping reports showing the distribution of TIF’s activities and assisted entities.
• Help manage geographic data reporting of implemented activities.
• Other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required. Degree in Business Administration, Economics or related field preferred.

• Experience in collecting, analyzing and managing monitoring and evaluation data is preferred but not required.
• Advanced MS. Excel skills.
• Familiarity with online data collection tools is preferred but not required
• Previous experience with monitoring and evaluation for international donor programs is preferred but not required

• Strong communication skills - both written and oral – in English and Arabic.