Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer Full-Time

Background

In Mozambique, through the cooperation portfolio 2023-2028, Enabel aims at supporting the country in achieving its low carbon, just and inclusive development pathway and energy transition by fostering a multi-stakeholder integrated approach based on local needs, national priorities, and global trends. Climate is the underpinning theme in the portfolio with a focus on 3 public services (water, waste, energy) as well as fostering the dialogue on energy transition and working on losses and damages. Enabel Mozambique is also implementing projects for other donors:

• Public financial management in the health sector (Government of Flanders)
• Waste and circular economy at municipal level (Mitigation Action Facility)
• Sustainable Water Infrastructure (Brussels Capital Region)
• Readiness Programme (Green Climate Fund)

In view of future needs for further development of its activities, Enabel is currently looking for 2 x (m/f/x) Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officers, to be based in Maputo, Mozambique.

Job description

The MEL Officer will be responsible for:

Guaranteeing the existence, quality, reliability and adaptation of the results monitoring and learning system at the level of each intervention /portfolio.

Ensuring that the interventions /portfolios have relevant information about results and use it for decision-making, learning and rendering accounts of results achieved against the fixed objectives.

Major roles and responsibilities

The major responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Put in place a system for monitoring the results in order to have all necessary information to generate the necessary data. Tasks include:
• Analyse the ‘information needs’ on the basis of the intervention /portfolio document.
• Confirm and operationalise the indicators by identifying the qualitative and quantitative methods needed.
• Integrate the monitoring of the transversal dimensions (digitisation, gender, environment, decent work…).
• Advise the people in charge of MEL in order to provide each indicator with information and to be able to use the information generated by the MEL system. Tasks include:
• Prepare the data and check the quality of data so that they can be analysed jointly with the team.
• Challenge the data analysis/interpretation at set standard development results monitoring and reporting times
• Support learning during implementation, action-research by collecting relevant data and entering these in the MEL system.
• Support knowledge-building.
• Organise and support learning activities in order to ensure that lessons are drawn, that the relevant. experiences from execution are capitalised on and disseminated, in accordance with Enabel RBM guidelines. Tasks include:
• Identify themes for knowledge building and questions for provisional evaluations.
• Ensure that the collection of data on these learning questions is integrated in the monitoring system and supports action-research.
• Promote a results-oriented culture and ensure that management for development results becomes a shared responsibility in order for Enabel as an organisation to be recognised for its development results. Tasks include:
• Train/coach/accompany all staff members, including partner organisations, in management for development and in continuous learning.
• Create an atmosphere that is conducive to having the whole management and technical team of the programme take on responsibility for achieving the development results (a shared responsibility).
• Disseminate, with the assistance of the communication department, the development results achieved at different levels.
• Disseminate, with the assistance of the communication department, the knowledge-building outputs via various channels.
• Network with RBM/MEL resource persons of Enabel and other organisations in order to continuously learn, share lessons learned, get information about recent MEL evolutions and adopt an innovative attitude. Tasks include.
• Build partner entity capacity in order to contribute to the improvement of their organisation, processes and systems and of their staff’s competences.

Your profile

Required qualifications:

• Master’s degree in relevant fields is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a relevant field will be accepted.

Required experience:

• At least 3 years of professional experience in monitoring and evaluation in various development interventions.
• Proven expertise in M&E methodologies, including existing approaches and theories, norms and standards, sampling methods, quantitative and qualitative methods, quality and validity of data, analysis and interpretation of data.
• Expertise in measurement of progress indicators, in reporting and in learning processes (action-research, outcome mapping…).
• Knowledge of methods for validating the strength/ reliability of a quantitative tool and approach to measure effects.
• Ability of carrying out rigorous desk reviews/ benchmarks.
• Insight in MEL themes and particularly in monitoring development projects.
• Knowledge of the project management cycle;
• Fluent in English and Portuguese with excellent writing and reporting skills for different audiences (will be tested).
• Information (data) management and knowledge management skills.
• Good IT skills (spreadsheet, word-processing).
• Good analytical and synthesis and communication skills.
• Good organisational skills.
• Sense of responsibility and initiative.

Applicants are also required to commit to the vision, mission and values of Enabel (https://www.enabel.be/who-we-are/our-identity)

Following this recruitment procedure, a shortlist of successful applicants may be kept for the next three years for consideration in similar job openings.

We offer you

• A fascinating job experience in an international environment.
• A salary package that comprises the monthly gross salary, in accordance with our salary scales (Class 5) and Health Insurance.