Pacific Regional Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning MEAL Technical Advisor

You will be part of the Pacific PDQ team and be responsible for leading our Pacific MEAL Uplift initiative, including overseeing the rollout of support to our country offices to improve the delivery of high-quality monitoring, evaluation and learning systems, tools, practice and processes across the region.

This is being offered as an initial 9-month fixed term contract on a full-time basis, with strong potential for further extension beyond this or transitioning into a permanent contract.

You will make an impact in the following areas:

• Oversee the Pacific MEAL Uplift initiative, including coordinating the sequencing and timing of the pilot and rollout, working with a range of Head Office and Country Office stakeholders and reporting on progress towards agreed outcomes.
• Identify and promote ongoing MEAL capacity building requirements and opportunities, guided by the MEAL Technical Competency Framework, MEAL diagnostic results, and the capacity goals of the MEAL Uplift initiative.
• Provide distance and face-to-face 1:1 and group training and coaching/mentoring on MEAL systems, tools, processes. This also includes sensitisation to software (KOBO & PowerBi) for data collection and analysis, as well as improving basic data literacy and use of databases and reporting systems.
• Co-lead Regional MEAL Community of Practice to provide guidance and learning.
• Develop MEAL frameworks, tools and processes to measure performance and quality.
• Support the design of technical assessments and feasibility studies, as well as research and evaluations
• Provide advice and feedback on high priority / strategic donor reporting projects, programmes and opportunities.
• Supporting proposal work, including logframe and design aspects of proposal development and donor reporting
• Supporting MEAL emergency preparedness and response within existing country MEAL frameworks, systems, tools and processes.

This role requires:

• At least 7 years of experience in a MEAL or related role within a development and/or humanitarian context.
• Experience and knowledge of MEAL systems and processes, including program monitoring,  data collection and use.
• Experience in MEAL capacity building, including training, supervising, coaching and mentoring, as well as strong facilitation skills.
• Experience in organisational change management processes
• Advanced knowledge of complex survey design and analysis, quantitative and qualitative methods and analysis, and sampling methods, as experiencing applying these designs and methods in low-resource settings
• Advanced proficiency in KoBoToolbox, including coding of .xls forms
• Advanced proficiency in quantitative data analysis software, including Excel (mandatory)
• Advanced proficiency in data visualization tools like PowerBI or Tableau.
• Willing to travel to country and field offices in the Pacific.

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