Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager – Search for Common Ground عودة إلى الفرص

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager
Location: Tunis, Tunisia

Search for Common Ground (Search) is an international non-profit organization that promotes the peaceful transformation of conflict. With headquarters in Washington, DC and Brussels, Belgium, Search’s mission is to transform how individuals, organizations, and governments deal with conflict— moving away from destructive approaches and towards cooperative solutions. With more than 700 staff worldwide, Search implements projects in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and North America.

Position Summary

Search is seeking an experienced Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager for a project that aims to empower communities to prevent violence in Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of conflict sensitive and gender sensitive quantitative and qualitative MEL tools, including baseline surveys; pre/post-tests, focus group and interview protocols; and baseline, mid-term, and end-line survey instruments.
• Coordinates with the Institutional Learning Team to ensure collaborative production and implementation of MEL tools, MEL staff TORs, evaluation and research study TORs, learning meetings and workshops, and other MEL-related tasks and deliverables.
• Oversee data collection, management and analysis.
• Carry out regular data quality checks to ensure that data is accurate, secure, complete and timely and representative of gender dynamics.
• Supervise and build the capacity of project MEL staff, including country-specific M&E focal points.
• Review and modify MEL plan and tools as needed to maintain their relevance and conflict sensitivity/gender sensitivity within dynamic contexts.
• Plan and facilitate reflection meetings; lead the operationalization of lessons-learned
• Develop institutional learning documents based on project achievements, methodological approaches and lessons-learned from the project implementation, and share out with relevant country, regional and headquarters teams.
• Contribute in the development of donor and activity reports.
• Develop TORs and lead recruitment for project MEL staff as needed, including external evaluators and technical consultants on MEL related scopes of work.
• Coordinate and manage external evaluation contracts and MEL related consultants as needed.
• Complete other tasks as required by the Search DME Protocols and project needs.

As job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, the position holder may be required to undertake other duties that are broadly in line with the above key responsibilities.