Latin America: MERL Coordinator

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Beneath the supervision of the Exercise Director and with help from the Americas Regional MERL Unit, the Monitoring, Analysis, Analysis, and Studying (MERL) Coordinator will present day-to-day MERL management for a disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation (MDM) mission in Latin America. They may work collaboratively with regional employees and Internews HQ groups to develop efficient monitoring methodologies and monitoring techniques, making certain constant and correct information assortment, and supporting efficient evaluation of and reporting on the general impression and outcomes of the mission. They will even work with mission employees to develop and enhance their monitoring and analysis capacities and make sure that organizational and project-level targets are met, with particular consideration to these associated to the operational capability of unbiased media companions, gender fairness, and the inclusiveness of marginalized populations. The MERL Coordinator will play a crucial position within the mission by making certain adherence to our regional MERL procedures and techniques and offering enter to the mission’s annual strategic planning.

LOGISTICS

Our perfect candidate relies in Colombia, Ecuador, or Mexico. Candidates primarily based elsewhere in Latin America will even be thought-about.

This can be a limited-duration place with an anticipated finish date in September 2028.

Notice: Hiring of this place is contingent upon donor approval.

OUR COMMITMENT TO FOSTERING A CULTURE OF BELONGING

We’re a company of dynamic, mission-driven people who’re obsessed with our core values and about supporting constructive change on the earth. We satisfaction ourselves on our dedication to innovation and adaptability. We imagine that various groups are robust groups and work to support an ethic of belonging, dignity, and justice for all people. Our present group contains a mixture of genders, dad and mom and non-parents, and other people of a number of races, nationalities, ages, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds. We’re an EEO employer and encourage candidates of all races, genders, ages, orientations, ethnicities, and nationwide origins to use, and welcome these with various backgrounds and experiences.

DAY-TO-DAY TASKS will embrace:

• Lead the planning and implementation of monitoring and analysis actions for the mission and ensure they’re designed in a methodologically sound and possible manner, precisely applied, and that the outcomes are analyzed and reported appropriately.
• Help the rollout of the mission’s Monitoring, Analysis, and Studying (MEL) plan, which is able to information key actions, efficiency indicators, annual and life-of-activity targets, and studying that may happen in the course of the lifetime of the mission.
• Advise on the design, improvement, and administration of sources and instruments to guage and monitor mission indicators, comparable to pre- and post-activity surveys, focus group questionnaires, uniform qualitative information assortment, inside monitoring techniques, impression tales, and many others.
• Advise mission employees on finest practices to make sure actions and MEL efforts are built-in into all actions and think about the inclusiveness of ladies and marginalized and susceptible populations, together with differentiated targets for males, girls, and/or particular teams, together with Indigenous, LGBTQ+, and different populations.
• Coordinate the quarterly assortment of indicator information for each the mission and Internews’ general monitoring and analysis efforts, together with use and administration of program information within the inside ProgramSource database.
• Be sure that information is verified, synthesized, and up to date for inclusion in experiences, briefings, and conferences for donors and mission stakeholders and Internews supplies.
• Function the principle level of contact with exterior M&E contractors as suggested by the donor and mission group.
• Suggest and implement methods for improved communications on mission actions and accomplishments.
• Present technical help to native mission companions within the design and administration of MERL techniques of their subgrants and to native consultants to gather mandatory information as a part of their companies.
• Facilitate common pause and mirror periods with the mission group and companions to tell mission implementation and learnings.
• In all duties, uphold Internews’ Core Values and reveal dedication to fostering a tradition of Belonging, Dignity, and Justice.

QUALIFICATIONS WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Required

• College diploma or equal lived/skilled expertise.
• At the least 5 years’ expertise in monitoring and analysis of worldwide applications, ideally with expertise within the media improvement sector.
• Spanish and English fluency.
• Sturdy qualitative analysis expertise, and expertise with designing and managing blended strategies analysis, together with the design of logical frameworks, indicators, and acceptable information assortment strategies.
• Data of or aptitude for greedy widespread organizational strategies comparable to social community evaluation, Final result Harvesting, Organizational Capability Assessments, and digital analytics.
• Expertise delivering MERL coaching and constructing the capability of colleagues and native companions.
• Sturdy presentation and facilitation expertise and expertise adapting oral and written outputs to current in non-technical language to various audiences, together with colleagues, companions, consultants, and donors.
• Sturdy time administration and organizational expertise; means to successfully handle a dynamic workload and shifting priorities.
• Confirmed means to function in a multicultural and distant work surroundings.
• Confirmed means to work each independently and as an efficient group member.
• Flexibility to journey periodically to different nations for conferences with colleagues, native companions, and donors.
• Flexibility to work exterior conventional workplace hours as required.

Most popular

Notice: Candidates who shouldn’t have these most well-liked {qualifications}, however who’re and prepared o be taught, are inspired to use.

• Familiarity with the misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation panorama within the Americas. Prior expertise working for tasks addressing MDM points is a plus.
• Expertise working for a world nonprofit or within the worldwide improvement sector.
• Expertise in creating or supporting tasks in closed or hostile environments; data of safety dangers and mitigation protocols.
• Expertise with implementing tasks in various info environments and coaching in applied sciences that help entry to info, and expertise with privateness, censorship circumvention, and anonymity instruments.
• Expertise implementing US-funded tasks is a big asset; expertise with different government-funded applications, or different applications with vital reporting, analysis, and compliance parts, is strongly desired.
• Familiarity with and expertise in implementing tasks to strengthen organizational capability and inclusion of marginalized communities.