MEAL Coordinator for Education

Main tasks include:

• In collaboration with the MEAL Manager and the Program and Project Managers, establish a reliable and consistent set of outcomes and outputs indicators for all program activities related to education and child protection, logical framework elaboration including the identification of measurement methodologies, plans and tools, while ensuring alignment with the overall sector of activities within AVSI.
• Supervise the development of the monitoring and evaluation plans of the education projects in line with the project logical framework and in consultation with the project teams for all the ongoing projects.
• Coordinate with the Information System team to develop a harmonized system of data collection for each sector of activity along with the data storage system for each education project.
• Coordinate the conduction of field qualitative assessments such as focus group discussion or key informant interviews.
• Validate drafted template for focus group discussions, interviews, baseline and endline surveys and the generation of the related digital collection tool.
• Validate the MEAL sampling methods when required. SURVEYS/data collection
• Coordinate the conduction of field monitoring visits to monitor field activities and ensure cohesion of data collected on field under each education project.
• Supervise the elaboration of monthly progress reports for all ongoing projects under education.
• Lead the generation of reliable quantitative and qualitative data for internal and external reporting and ensure timely compilation for monthly reporting or when needed.
• Generate quality analysis of the data collected including trends, impacts, achievements and gaps.
• Ensure timely production and update of project dashboards.
• Coordinate the conduction of assessments surveys and generate reports accordingly.
• Generate M&E project reports and assist project team in data retrieving when needed.
• Technically assist the M&E officer in designing and adapting M&E plans and tools.
• Supervise MEAL Education officer(s), coordinate their work, and develop their skills and capacities.
• Assist the project teams in strengthening the accountability mechanisms at project level
• Develop tools and database to collect, track and follow-up on beneficiaries’ attendance, participation to distance learning and feedbacks.
• Promote the use of analyzed data for programmatic decision and support the education program team to this endeavor.
• Collaborate with MEAL and project teams to collect and document lessons learnt, to conduct reviews and learning events for activities adaptation.
• Provide monitoring and evaluation support and coaching to partner organization.
• Elaborate the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and guidelines for M&E activities and update them where/when necessary.
• Establish a consolidated and continuous channel of communication between MEAL Team and Education field staff which includes coaching, training on new tools as well as innovative methodologies for data collection to ensure a high quality of data.