LED Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Specialist - MEL Specialist

The Lebanon Enterprise Development (LED) is a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with a goal to increase employment opportunities for Lebanese citizens. Due to multiple challenges, Lebanon’s private sector is lagging in creating economic opportunities and jobs. LED will identify binding constraints preventing businesses from increasing sales or reaching new buyers/customers and will provide customized technical assistance to enable Lebanese enterprises to expand their activities, increase sales and create jobs. Over time, LED will also prioritize selected business enabling environment problems and work with the relevant stakeholders to analyze these issues and propose the needed solutions.

Objective of Position

The MEL Specialist will provide data gathering, analysis, and reporting expertise to the project in accordance with Chemonics’ highest standards and USAID regulations.

Specific Duties, Responsibilities, and Accountabilities

Assist to implement the LED MEL plan as approved by USAID

Support reviews of and modifications to the LED MEL plan

Collect, review for quality, and input into relevant database/s LED monitoring data

Ensure data quality and integrity by conducting site visits and spot checks to verify data

Design forms, spreadsheets, and databases to facilitate the data collection as needed

Compile and analyze project monitoring data to identity project impact and trends

Draft, in English, written summaries or analyses of project impact or trends for periodic reports

Regularly communicate progress against targets to project staff and affiliate

Work with project technical staff to collect relevant data from counterpart institutions, and when necessary, provide technical support to project subcontractors, clients and grantees to help them to develop monitoring, evaluation or reporting skills as necessary

Assist in the design, procurement, and/or implementation of surveys to gather information for project indicators and counterpart information

Maintain the Project database and enter data into the required USAID mission reporting tools while ensuring accuracy and timeliness of M&E data

Regularly update M&E data collection tools and training materials as needed

Conduct Data Quality Assessments exercises

Conduct other work-related tasks as assigned

Place of Assignment

The Specialist will be based in LED’s office in Beirut and travel throughout Lebanon as needed.

Reporting

The Specialist will report directly to the Director of MEL.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in business, information management, statistics, or other relevant discipline

Arabic and English fluency strongly required with professional-level writing in both languages

Minimum five years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation international donor projects; experience on private sector focused and USAID-funded projects strongly preferred

Demonstrated analytical capacity

Proficiency in MS Office required with strong Excel skills

Strong organizational, multi-tasking, interpersonal, communications, and teamworking skills

Hardworking, energetic, willing to learn and contribute toward the LED project goal