Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Expert Consultant-EFE Retour vers les opportunités

1. Background

Education For Employment (EFE) is a leading youth employment network operating across the Middle East and North Africa. EFE-Tunisie equips young women and men with the skills, opportunities, and support needed to access decent employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.

To strengthen monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, and donor reporting across its portfolio, EFE-Tunisie seeks to recruit a qualified Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Expert Consultant for a six-month technical assistance assignment.

2. Assignment Details

Position: MEL Expert Consultant

Duration: July 1, 2026 – December 30, 2026

Reporting Line: CEO, EFE-Tunisie

Support: The consultant will be supported by a MEL Assistant and will collaborate closely with project coordinators, training teams, finance staff, and EFE Global team.

3. Projects Covered

The consultant will provide MEL support to 5 active projects covering youth Job training and placement, entrepreneurship and Startup incubation and acceleration.

4. Assignment Objective

The objective of this assignment is to support  EFE-Tunisie’s MEL activities and ensure timely, accurate, evidence-based, and donor-compliant reporting across all projects.

The consultant will support project teams in tracking results, measuring outcomes and impact, ensuring data quality, documenting lessons learned, and strengthening accountability to donors, beneficiaries, and partners.

5. Scope of Work

A. Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

The consultant will:

• Review and update MEL logframes, indicators, targets, and reporting plans for all projects.
• Develop and maintain, when needed, monitoring tools, indicator tracking systems, and reporting templates
• Ensure compliance with donor requirements and EFE Global MEL standards.
• Verify beneficiary eligibility against donor-defined selection criteria.
• Supervise data collection, validation, and quality assurance processes.
• Manage and oversee EFE Salesforce system and project databases with support from the MEL Assistant.
• Produce monthly dashboards (extracted from Salesforce system), performance scorecards, and monitoring reports.
• Prepare quarterly performance reports and donor reporting inputs 
• Generate beneficiary, graduate, entrepreneur, startup, and employer tracking reports.
• Prepare quarterly presentations and performance updates for EFE-Tunisie management, Board meetings, and project steering committees.
• Identify risks, data gaps, and performance issues and recommend corrective actions.

B. Project-Specific Monitoring Responsibilities

Across all five projects, the consultant will:

• Verify beneficiary eligibility according to donor requirements.
• Monitor participant recruitment, attendance, completion, and retention.
• Track employment, self-employment, entrepreneurship, incubation, and business growth outcomes.
• Monitor employer engagement and satisfaction.
• Track startup incubation and acceleration performance indicators where applicable.
• Conduct beneficiary and stakeholder satisfaction assessments.
• Produce project-specific dashboards and quarterly performance reports.

6. Deliverables

Deliverable 1 – Inception Package

Due: July 15, 2026

• Detailed Work Plan
• Consolidated Indicator Tracking Matrix

Deliverable 2 – Monthly Monitoring Dashboards

Due: Monthly (July–December 2026)

• Consolidated project dashboard
• Progress against targets
• Risk analysis and mitigation measures

Deliverable 3 – Quarterly Performance and Learning Reports

Due: September 30 and December 30, 2026

• Performance analysis
• Indicator achievement status
• Beneficiary feedback analysis
• Lessons learned and recommendations

Deliverable 4 – Final Assignment Report

Due: December 30, 2026

• Consolidated MEL report covering all projects
• Achievement against project indicators
• Key lessons learned
• Recommendations for sustainability, scaling, and future programming

7. Required Qualifications

The consultant should possess:

• Minimum 6 years of professional experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning within donor-funded development programs.
• Strong expertise in Results-Based Management (RBM), logical frameworks, and performance measurement.
• Demonstrated experience in youth employment, entrepreneurship, skills development, and private sector engagement projects.
• Experience managing MEL systems and databases; Salesforce experience is highly desirable.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills.
• Excellent report-writing and communication skills.
• Fluency in English, French, and Arabic.

8. Proposal Submission

Interested consultants are invited to submit:

• Technical Proposal outlining methodology and work plan.
• Financial Proposal.
• Updated CV.
• References for at least three similar assignments completed within the last five years.

Applications should be sent to jobs.efetunisie@gmail.com no later than June 26, 2026.

Please mention “Call for Proposal – MEL Expert Consultant” in the email subject line.