Point: MEL Based in TANZania, Technical Specialist or Advisor Accountable to IIDC Executive Director Head of Programs
Date: September 16, 2024, deadline

The most often used employment site in Tanzania is Ajirayako, which offers the most recent employment prospects from leading companies. IIDC is currently looking for a skilled applicant to cover the post of MEL Technical Specialist or Advisor.

About the Development Centre on Impact and Innovations (IIDC)

What thus is IIDC all about? In order to support significant and creative initiatives, this not-for-profit company collaboratively partners with public and private development organisations all throughout Africa. Their purpose is To enable partners to improve their development programming abilities so that everyone may gain from equitable results based on sustainability.

Their areas of concentration comprise:

  • Designing programs that challenge unfavourable societal conventions, concentrate on systems, and can scale successfully calls for powerful programming design.
  • Measurement and Evidence Generation: Creating instruments to record changes and assess effects and results.
  • Program Adaptation and Scale-Up: Providing customised guidance for scaling evidence-based treatments.
  • Coordinating cooperative learning and recording knowledge products helps to manage knowledge.
  • Technical advice and training for protection from design through to deployment help to ensure integration.
  • By improving their capacities in these areas, IIDC helps several East African partners, including Tanzania.
  • They are thus seeking a highly qualified M&E Technical Specialist/Advisor to assist the MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning) element of their projects.

Regarding the Post

Design and implementation of MEL components will be much enhanced by your presence as MEL Specialist/Advisor. This implies that you will assist in the development of methods for evaluating outcomes and encourage among important stakeholders knowledge-sharing and learning.

Main Activities and Accountability

Emphasising program monitoring and impact measurement, your regular technical advice and support will help IIDC’s partners. Your tasks will consist in:

You will design frameworks, procedures, and tools to enable our partners monitor their program operations. this covers:

Using the resources at hand helps one to ensure that all monitoring indicators fairly represent important program activities.
creating easy-to-use monitoring instruments gathering vital information.
Creating and refreshing MEL Operation Manuals.
Creating reliable evidence for program monitoring and impact assessment falls to you. These comprise:

helping allies in data collecting, management, analysis, and application.
supervising the production of evidence using baselines and midlines among other approaches.
Operationalising Monitoring Information Systems (MIS) can help you design “Fit for Purpose” MIS that guarantees timely extraction and distribution of quality evidence to improve program implementation.

Program data will be used by you to promote improvements and guide wise decisions.

necessary credentials

You need have to be a perfect fit for the MEL Specialist/Advisor post in terms of:

  • a Master’s degree in statistics, sociological research, monitoring and evaluation, or a closely allied subject.
  • One advantage is a PhD with an eye towards impact measuring techniques.
  • minimum ten years of knowledge building and application expertise in measurement and learning systems development.
  • Verified knowledge in several evaluation strategies for projects of development.
  • Excellent history in designing and implementing MIS systems.
  • strong knowledge of both quantitative and qualitative data handling.
  • Technical and non-technical staff members should get experience in data use, monitoring, and assessment.
  • One benefit is topical knowledge in children’s rights, gender-based violence, male involvement, and early childhood development.
  • Excellent documentation and writing for products including research and evidence.
  • The capacity to operate both alone and in groups across several time zones with people from many backgrounds.

How to Implement?

All set to meet this interesting challenge? To apply, just complete the form linked below and include information regarding your qualifications, experience, and accomplishments that fit the demands of this post.

Remember also the need of uploading your most recent resume!

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