Project Background
The Jordan Himaya project is a USAID-funded activity that aims to enhance access to and quality of essential services and protection for survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in Jordan. The project has two outcomes: 1) survivor-centered institutional capacity improved, and 2) legislative frameworks for protecting survivors and responding to violence strengthened. To achieve these outcomes, the project will apply a survivor-centered systems-strengthening approach to improve prevention, response, and protection services, and to support the development and implementation of survivor-centered legislation and policies. The project will work with and through local partners, including a Jordanian partner consortium and an all-Jordanian key personnel team, to leverage their expertise and ensure the sustainability and impact of the project interventions. Outcome 1 will inform research, advocacy, and policy changes in Outcome 2, while reforms supported under Outcome 2 will be implemented and enforced by institutions and service providers that have gained stronger capacity under Outcome 1.
Role’s Purpose
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director will directly oversee and supervise a team of M&E staff from the headquarters office in Amman. She will provide overall strategic leadership for MEL and ensure that project leadership has timely data on program progress that will help on management decision making and performance improvement. They have a primary responsibility for the co-design and implementation of the project’s M&E plan and data collection system to measure overall project performance against established goals and objectives. The MEL Director will be responsible for research, information, and knowledge management for the project. This includes overseeing the preparation of regular project reports and deliverables for USAID, highlighting best practices and approaches for all project counterparts, defining program indicators and sources of data, tracking delivery against program targets, using existing evidence and identify solutions to promote data-based decision making among program and technical staff, preparing project performance monitoring plans, and contribute to other project documents.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
The MEL Director will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:
- Co-design, develop, and institutionalize monitoring and evaluation systems and approaches that provide useful data for reporting, communications, and organizational learning.
- Contributes to the draft MEL Plan that will outline Jordan Himaya’s approach for establishing the baseline. This may include using existing available data (project, host-country, other donor) in addition to conducting a baseline assessment if necessary.
- Oversee implementation of data quality assessment processes and procedures.
- Develop/adapt tools for data collection; designs and implements surveys and other data collection tasks, including overseeing implementation of the project’s baseline, mid and end-of-project surveys.
- Lead collaboration with USAID assigned external evaluators and provide documentation/verification of data as requested.
- Design focus group discussions and report findings to COP, DCOP, Construction Manager, and relevant stakeholders to guide future activities and evaluate project achievements.
- Work closely with DCOP to design routine technical meetings as a platform for sharing ideas among team leads.
- Institutes regular use of performance monitoring data among component leads and technical staff.
- Identifies best practices and state-of-the art approaches to the program activities and evaluates them.
- Use data to systematically and consistently document achievements, success stories, and best practices while coordinating and collaborating with the Communications and GESI Director.
- Provides technical assistance and training to the project’s teams and partner organizations as necessary.
- Inform technical teams about the project’s outcomes and impacts on a regular basis, providing necessary recommendations for meeting targets where needed.
- Tracks, measures, and records the targeted results that serve as measurable performance standards by which the project’s performance will be assessed and the indicators in the MEL plan to provide metrics to measure progress.
- Ensures that required gender, youth, and student related data are tracked, recorded and reported properly.
- Provide overall guidance and manage all the M&E related efforts, communicating and coordinating as needed with DAI home office headquarters staff.
- Designs/adapts project performance monitoring database to report national and global indicator and performance indicator data quarterly to technical team leads, COP, and DAI headquarters.
- Supervises, coaches, and mentors the M&E Specialists and MEL Officers to ensure timely and high-quality reporting of M&E data including entry into USAID systems as applicable to ensure MEL tasks are completed in a timely and quality manner
- Train Jordan Himaya technical teams on the use of the project’s management system (TAMIS) and work closely with them to ensure that TAMIS is regularly and accurately updated.
- Ensure coordination between MEL and Communications and GESI, and technical teams.
- Develops and updates the project activity factsheet on a quarterly basis and report the updates to USAID Jordan and its designated M&E contractor.
- Collects, compiles, validates and provides input into the Annual Work Plan, MEL Plan, Baseline Report, Quarterly Performance Reports, Annual Reports and Final Report.
- Participates in and contributes to weekly senior staff meetings.
- Conduct data validation meetings with USAID’s M&E contractors.
- Help create and maintain a culture of learning and adaptive management within the MEL activity.
- Identify key messages, develop, and disseminate knowledge and learning products through diverse communication channels.
- Document, and make available in useful form, evidence, and analytic results from MEL studies and evaluation reports, meeting notes, decisions made, and follow ups from learning engagements.
- Other duties as assigned by the COP
Qualifications:
- Minimum of an advanced degree in monitoring and evaluation, statistics, research methods, development studies, economics, or related field.
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