Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Job at ChildFund International
About ChildFund
ChildFund is a child-focused international development organization that works in 24 countries to connect children with the people, resources and institutions they need to grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe, no matter where they are.
ChildFund is cultivating a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible environment where everyone is seen and welcomed equally. In our culture of connection, you will have ample opportunity to grow, learn, and lead while contributing to our inspiring vision.
About This Role
ChildFund International has just launched an ambitious plan to scale its reach to 100 million children and family members annually to help children grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe. The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Advisor will play a key role in realizing this bold goal through the implementation of ChildFund’s Global MEL system. This global MEL system includes our basic accountability functions, demographic data on children served by our programs, outcome measures related to our theories of change, and global program models. The MEL Advisor will support the adoption of MEL standards by serving as a technical contributor and subject matter expert on the global MEL team and in partnership with country office and program staff.
You will enjoy this position if you are an experienced Monitoring and Evaluation professional who wants to contribute to a bold, challenging vision. You will thrive in this role if you are a self-motivated, organized professional who can balance competing priorities while working remotely, and you like both analytical tasks and working closely with others.
This is a full-time, remote, term-limited position of 2 years. Fluency in English is required. Candidates in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico will be considered. To be considered, please submit a resume in English.
Primary Responsibilities
Ability to travel internationally up to 10% of the time.
Please note: This is a salaried position and pay is based on local currency. Candidates must have current work authorization in country of residence.
ChildFund is a child-focused international development organization that works in 24 countries to connect children with the people, resources and institutions they need to grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe, no matter where they are.
ChildFund is cultivating a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible environment where everyone is seen and welcomed equally. In our culture of connection, you will have ample opportunity to grow, learn, and lead while contributing to our inspiring vision.
About This Role
ChildFund International has just launched an ambitious plan to scale its reach to 100 million children and family members annually to help children grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe. The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Advisor will play a key role in realizing this bold goal through the implementation of ChildFund’s Global MEL system. This global MEL system includes our basic accountability functions, demographic data on children served by our programs, outcome measures related to our theories of change, and global program models. The MEL Advisor will support the adoption of MEL standards by serving as a technical contributor and subject matter expert on the global MEL team and in partnership with country office and program staff.
You will enjoy this position if you are an experienced Monitoring and Evaluation professional who wants to contribute to a bold, challenging vision. You will thrive in this role if you are a self-motivated, organized professional who can balance competing priorities while working remotely, and you like both analytical tasks and working closely with others.
This is a full-time, remote, term-limited position of 2 years. Fluency in English is required. Candidates in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico will be considered. To be considered, please submit a resume in English.
Primary Responsibilities
- Support development and refinement of data collection approaches and processes to ensure timely availability of global MEL results for planning, reflection, and related processes.
- Support global M&E survey development (Global M&E Survey, baseline and endline assessments and KAPs).
- Develop guidance and coordinate the necessary support to MEL stakeholders to ensure data quality.
- Support the development of trainings and work closely with MEL Advisors to provide capacity strengthening in data management, mobile data collection tools and reporting dashboards.
- Create and manage data reports in PowerBI.
- Assist MEL colleagues with information management, data analysis, and knowledge sharing tasks.
- Clean datasets managed by International Office MEL staff and champion programmatic data accuracy and completeness across the organization.
- Support Country Office staff with MEL data.
- In collaboration with other technical advisors, develop data analysis plans and standard reports, and conduct data analyses to meet the needs of internal stakeholders.
- Support the development of MEL frameworks, plans, and tools for ChildFund’s strategic plan, working with internal stakeholders to maintain alignment with organizational standards, theories of change, and Result Framework.
- Develop systems for regularly monitoring the progress of pathway initiatives: identify standard indicators, primary and secondary data sources, etc.
- Model scenarios to forecast the growth of ChildFund’s impact and reach.
- Work in collaboration with technical advisors and stakeholders across ChildFund to measure the reach and impact of its work.
- Remain alert and responsive to any child safeguarding risks, acquire relevant knowledge and skills which will enable you to promote strong safeguarding practices, understand the child safeguarding policy and procedures, and conduct yourself in a manner consistent with the Child Safeguarding Policy.
- Advanced skills with Power BI or similar business intelligence tool.
- Advanced analytical skills.
- Knowledge of monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) methodologies, including results frameworks and indicators, quantitative and qualitative research, and data analysis.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
- Fluency in English.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional, multi-cultural work environment.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to provide virtual trainings and relay technical information to diverse audiences.
- Demonstrated results orientation, with the ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities to deliver objectives on time and to the highest standard.
- Good resilience; ability to thrive despite changing conditions and expectations.
- Excellent sense of judgment and ethics with the ability to work independently and assess risk within the scope of work responsibilities.
- Clear technical aptitude for new software programs, methodologies, or processes.
- Strong data literacy and advocate for data-driven decision-making across the organization.
- University degree in a relevant field.
- At least 5 years of experience in a grants- or contracts-funded environment.
- At least 3 years of experience in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, applied research, or doing/managing evaluation for social change organizations or NGOs.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field.
- Proficiency in Spanish.
- Proficiency with DHIS2 and/or CommCare.
- Proficiency with statistical software such as SPSS or STATA.
- Proficiency with one or more programming languages (R, Python, SQL).
Ability to travel internationally up to 10% of the time.
Please note: This is a salaried position and pay is based on local currency. Candidates must have current work authorization in country of residence.
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