M&E Assistant - national

M&E Assistant - Duhok - National Position

Position type and closing date

Full time position - National position

Location : Based in Duhok

Repoting to : M& E Officer

Supervising: Non

Scope of Work

Under the supervision of the M&E Officer, and in collaboration with the project staff, the M&E Assistant will contribute to the implementation of M&E activities in the field, by collecting data and information about project progress and achievements. M&E activities include (but are not limited to) monitoring visits at project sites, post-activity monitoring, KAP surveys, collecting secondary data, assessments and evaluations, satisfaction surveys, quality monitoring, and verification of participant data. Through this, the M&E Assistant will assist in routine data collection and entry for various project interventions implemented in the field and ensure that complete, accurate, clean, and consistent data is shared with the M&E Officer for data analysis and action planning. In addition, the M&E Assistant will be responsible for the communication and visibility of LWF-Iraq on social media and through other channels.

Roles & Responsibilities:

M&E

· Draft tools in collaboration with project teams for gathering information/data from the field, and for data collection and monitoring procedures (e.g., project performance tracking, indicators, M&E guidance materials).

· Conduct regular field visits to ensure the quality of data collected by the project teams and to verify and/or cross-check the accuracy of the reported data.

· Monitor project outputs track progress towards indicators and capture case studies and stories from the field.

· Facilitate the flow of data within project teams; ensure that the M&E data flow and responsibilities are completed on time, support provision of relevant training to the staff members in new tools.

· Provide support to project teams in conducting quality assessments and analysis, KAP surveys, PDMs, evaluations, and other project-requested surveys and assessments.

· Collect utilized means of verification for program activities and ensure the availability of them in both forms’ software and hard copies.

· Supporting the M&E officer in receiving and recording the operational complaints from the community and addressing them to the M&E officer and with the dedicated program staff.

· Ensuring that LWF systems such as Sharepoint, Beneficiary Dashboards, Activity Info and other platforms are up-to-date.

· Prepare scope of work with Human Resources for the recruitment of data collectors, and enumerators and supervise and train part-time data collectors and enumerators to ensure high-quality data capture.

· Support the M&E Office in providing technical capacity building to the local partners.

· Keep lessons learned on record and support conducting lessons learned workshops with the staff.

· Write and edit internal narrative reports as assigned by the M&E officer.

Communication

· Document sector case studies and participant stories from projects, and disseminate them for use by the wider organization.

· Implement and manage the LWF-Iraq Communications Plan.

· Manage LWF social media accounts and ensure strategic, timely, and relevant case studies, stories from project participants, and other updates are shared on social media and through other channels.

· In coordination with HQ, further develop the country-specific web pages, Facebook, LinkedIn, country-specific one-pagers, and other external content.

· Ensure LWF Iraq publicity, publications, and events are of high quality and reflect LWF’s organizational values and priorities.

· Edit all external LWF communications to ensure compliance with global policies.

Required qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years relevant working experience in project or program M&E; experience in information technology and/or community mobilization or other development initiatives

• Relevant university degree in development or related field

• Good in understanding and communicating in Kurdish, English, and Arabic languages

• Technical experience in livelihoods, WASH, and/or protection/social cohesion in emergency, recovery, and developing response operations.

• Experience in collecting data on livelihoods, WASH, protection and social cohesion, including for market analysis, needs assessments, and project evaluations

• Experience in IT and social media, with expertise in taking good photos and videos and writing accompanying narratives

• Experience in using Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)

• Strong analytical skills/ability to conduct data analysis as well as report writing including data display.

• Strong understanding of monitoring and evaluation tools and approaches.

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