JOB DETAILS:
JOB DESCRIPTION
MEL TECHNICAL SPECIALIST/ADVISOR
Accountable to: IIDC Executive Director
Directly Reporting to; Head of Programs
Based in: TANZANIA
Deadline: 16th September, 2024

About Impact and Innovations Development Centre
Impact and Innovations Development Centre (IIDC) is a not-for-profit regional Technical Advisory (TA) and Learning partner organization that works with development agencies across Africa in the public and private sectors to promote impactful and innovative programming. IIDC mission is to build development programming capacities of partners to enhance the efficacy of development interventions for sustainable and equitable development outcomes for all. Our Technical Advisory and Learning covers areas of:

• Impactful Program Design- designing programs that addresses negative social norms, are systems focused and scalable.
• Measurement and evidence generation- development of systems and tools for tracking evidence of change i.e. outcome and impact.
• Adaptation and scale up of programs- context specific technical advisory in adapting and scaling evidence-based interventions and
• Learning and Knowledge management- Coordinating and facilitating learning collaboratives, knowledge products documentation and communications.
• Safeguarding integration in technical programming- Technical Advisory, capacity building and facilitating safeguarding learning in programming from design to implementation.

IIDC is currently supporting several partners in East Africa region including Tanzania through enhancing capacities in the areas outlined above. It is against this background that IIDC seeks to recruit highly competent M&E Technical Specialist/Advisor to support the MEL component in the IIDC Programme portfolio.

About the Position:
The MEL Specialist/Advisor will provide technical services within and outside IIDC in conceptualising, defining, elaboration, development and implementation of MEL components including systems development and results measurement. The MEL Specialist will also support programme learning, adaptation, and knowledge-sharing among key stakeholders.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities
The MEL Specialist/Advisor will provide regular technical advisory and accompaniment support to IIDC programme implementing partners in the areas of programme monitoring and impact measurement and documentation including in the following areas;
1. Development of sound of Monitoring frameworks, processes and tools for partner programmes. This includes ensuring that; o All monitoring indicators sufficiently reflect critical program activities and can be measured with the available tools.
• All monitoring tools are designed to collect the data necessary to assess the monitoring indicators; are as parsimonious as possible; are user-friendly and contain intuitive instructions.
• Development/updating of MEL Operation Manuals
2. Generation of reliable and high-quality programme monitoring, outcome and impact measurement evidence (baselines, midlines, endlines, RCTs). This includes provide ongoing technical support to partners in the roll out of the various monitoring and evaluation and learning processes including data collection, management, analysis and use.
3. Development and operationalisation of “Fit for Purpose” Monitoring Information Systems (MIS) and ensure timely extraction, dissemination and use of high-quality evidence to inform and improve programme implementation.
4. Use and application of Programme and other data for programme quality improvement

Required Qualifications
The MEL Specialist/Advisor will have the following qualifications and experience:

1. Masters level Qualifications in monitoring and evaluation, Social Research, statistics, or relevant programme measurement qualification. A PhD with a strong bias in Quantitative and Qualitative impact measurement methodologies will be a highly added advantage.
2. Minimum of 10 years extensive work experience in development and implementation of programme measurement and learning systems, frameworks and tools.
• Demonstrated experience in development and deployment of diverse, multi-level measurement evaluation designs and methodologies for development programmes
1. Verifiable experience in the design, development and operationalisation of MIS systems
2. Extensive skills in qualitative, and quantitative monitoring and evaluation data management and interpretation
3. Strong expertise in training and capacity development for both technical and non-technical staff in Monitoring, Evaluation and data use.
• Thematic programming expertise in the areas of children’s rights and violence against children gender-based violence, male engagement and ECD will be highly added advantages.
• Excellent writing, reporting and documentation skills for research and evidence products.
1. Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with counterparts in a coordinated manner to achieve outstanding results
2. Proactive, agile, collaborative and able to work efficiently while engaging with stakeholders with different global time zones
3. Demonstrated experience working with people of diverse cultures.