Key Responsibilities

The SMEAL officer oversees the implementation of the TW MEAL system through technical support of all components within the consortium.  The specific roles include,

MEAL Planning

• With program team and MEAL counterparts support the MEAL Advisor with review of the MEAL plan and align it to TW data needs and any donor recommendations
• Support the development of differentiated MEAL work plans from consortium partners and consolidate into one MEAL activity plan
• Track implementation of work plan through bilateral engagements, MEAL Sub-groups meeting and other technical forums
• Alignment, harmonization of MEAL activities with project workplans, Research & Learning and common activities implemented under grant 1
• Development of consortium quarterly MEAL activity plans with a view to harmonization for project impact planning

Senior Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (SMEAL) Officer

Performance Monitoring and Tracking

• Monitor progress in all outcome areas of the project using the MEAL plan and processes as outlined in the workplan
• With MEAL Technology Manager, track performance of Teacher Training from intake through in-house training, post training follow-up and post training tracing for each cohort
• Working closely with the WASH Team to review and ensure the tools are in place to track performance in schools against the various indicators
• Using Indicator tracking tools, gather, analyze and update the indicator tracking tool and Key Performance indicators on a quarterly basis
• Undertake differentiated analysis of indicators allocated to partners and follow up bilateral engagements on observed trends
• Provide technical support in joint TW planning bringing together the Ministry of Education collaborators and the consortium partners

Evaluation and Learning

• Conduct of surveys and needs assessments such as baseline, midline end line, and the roll-out of evaluations across the consortium
• Integrate qualitative tools in monitoring to generate stories and project learnings from teachers, learners and other beneficiaries
• Work with MEAL Advisor to integrate learning from Research & Learning partner and MEAL data for adaptive feedback
• Document project highlights and best practices for reporting and other purposes

Data Management  

• Transform data into analyzable format through cleaning, sub-setting and statistical analysis
• Ensure all project data is captured in appropriate tools to track indicators with flexibility for further analysis
• Review the existing Teacher Continuous Capacity Development tools in consultation with LWF and RTI with a view of profiling, registering teachers, training attendance monitoring, classroom observations with complete sets of case data
• Maintain data sets of WASH data with school learner, teacher and community and other activities collected with digitized tools in Commcare in retrievable format
• Periodic development and roll-out of tools for emergency response and generate data to track results to schools, teachers and learners
• Gather all case data and relevant data from the consortium partners and maintain in retrievable formats for ease of further analysis, quality assurance, audit and other utilities
  
• With MEAL Advisor undertake data quality assurance on selected data sources
• Sub-set data for  consortium partner requirements, annual statistics and other reporting   requirements.
• Provide secretarial support and follow-up to the MEAL sub-working group

Senior Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (SMEAL) Officer

Client Feedback and Accountability

• Work with MEAL Officers and Client Responsiveness team to oversee a functional client response mechanism
• Lead client satisfaction surveys targeting teachers, learners, communities and disseminate feedback
• Analyze client feedback data from the registry and provide feedback to the consortium

MEAL Capacity Sharing

• Assess MEAL training needs for the MEAL System across the consortium
• Organize user training to roll out new tools and onboarding of additional staff in use of tools and platforms
• With MEAL Tech Manager ensure that tablets are configured with appropriate tools linked to datasets
• Update skills requirements to work with other consortium platforms such as Mshule, Survey CTO and other tools used by partners for ease of data sharing

Leadership and Partnership

• Represent the MEAL team in MEAL technical meetings within the consortium and other bilateral engagements on a need basis
• Disseminate learnings and feedback to partners
• Provide technical supervision and support to the MEAL Officers
• Coordinate MEAL activities with MEAL counterparts at IRC for harmonized implementation
• Provide secretarial support and follow-up to the MEAL sub-working group

Senior Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (SMEAL) Officer

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Statistics, Economics or related Social Sciences. A Post Graduate qualification in Education Statistics or Research, Measurement, Assessments, Evaluation or Data Science is preferred.
• The candidate must have a minimum of 3 yrs of MEAL experience in the education sector with a strong bias towards quantitative data management skills.
• At least 5 years of concrete experience in MEAL and/or Research, data management; collection and analysis, storage and reporting.
• Personal qualities: promote collaboration and coordination within and across teams, comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, extremely flexible and adaptable, ability to contribute across multiple activities and departments.

Required Experience & Competencies:

• Good knowledge of Monitoring and Evaluation technologies, techniques, approaches and methodologies in Education Programmes software and methodology along with key platforms (CommCare, ONA, Power BI, KOBO and/or ODK).
• Proficiency in use of Stata, SPSS, R or other statistical software
• Demonstrated experience to develop and apply tools for measurement of progress in Education projects  
• Experience working in consortium projects preferred
• Strong ability to work independently, organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure, prioritize work under pressure, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail.
• Strong presentation, facilitation and capacity sharing skills