Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Monitoring:

• Conduct periodic monitoring visits in the project area and come up with key findings and recommendations.
• Prepare comprehensive monitoring reports.
• Debrief respective project management on key findings, action points, course corrections and recommendations.
• Follow-up with respective field teams in relation to course corrections and action points.
• Coordinate with Field Team to ensure work plans are regularly submitted.
• Ensure that field teams are periodically submitting progress reports.
• Extract key findings and action points from reports and share them with country management.
• Ensure Teams are properly following up on their action points and course correction measures.
• Updating/revamping monitoring templates in light of field experiences and interaction with MEAL/programme colleagues.
• Extend support to MEAL Specialist/Manager and field teams in developing supplementary checklist to effectively monitor activities as and when required.
• Share updated PMTs with KMAL team to update the activity and beneficiary status on PMIS.
• Share monitoring data and reports with KMAL team for uploading on PMIS.
• Extend support to humanitarian team during emergencies to conduct monitoring.
• Proper filing system developed and updated for monitoring related information.

Evaluation:

• Support MEAL Team in conducting impact surveys (baselines, midlines and end lines)
• Develop an evaluation work plan for all projects in which evaluation is budgeted and to share it with concerned area offices.
• Support MEAL Team and area office in drafting the TORs for evaluations and Real-Time Evaluations (RTEs) for humanitarian projects.
• Support MEAL Teamin evaluating/assessing technical proposals submitted by consultants.
• Support MEAL Team in development of tools for evaluations.
• Coordinate with consultants to adhere to contractual requirements and deadlines.
• Coordinate and draft initial comments/feedbacks on evaluation reports.
• Ensure evaluation reports are properly filed and archived on PMIS.
• Extract key programme recommendations from evaluation reports for upcoming concept notes and proposals.

 Learning:

• Develop work plan for reviews of all projects and programmes.
• Support MEAL Team in developing TORs and templates for reviews.
• Support MEAL Team in conducting reviews.
• Draft review reports and ensure final reports of reviews are uploaded on PMIS.
• Extract key learning and action points from review reports and share widely with respective area offices and colleagues in country office.
• Extract key learning from monitoring reports of specialists, MEAL staff and reviews and maintain a learning log.
• Similarly coordinate with field teams of respective areas that learning log is regularly updated and shared with MEAL CO.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any employment with Islamic Relief will be subject to the following checks:

• Screening clearance
• Receipt of satisfactory references

Please note, we are only able to accept applications from candidates who are eligible to live and work in Pakistan. We are unable to progress applications that would require sponsorship.

Our Values and Commitment to Safeguarding:

IR is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom IR engages. IR expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organization.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records checks. IRW also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.

In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Islamic Relief is an equal opportunities employer.