Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer (FGM/C programme)

The Girl Generation: Support to the Africa-Led Movement to End FGM/C Programme, is led by Options Consultancy Services, and includes Amref Health Africa, ActionAid, Orchid Project, Africa Coordination Centre for Abandonment of FGM/C and University of Portsmouth. It works closely with the Population Council’s FGM Data Hub. The programme envisions a world where girls and women can exercise their power and rights and have expanded choice and agency and be free from violence, including FGM/C.

Options has responsibility for the overall coordination of all monitoring, evaluation and learning activities. This includes working with partners offering them technical support, data collection for a range of purposes (outcome evaluation, learning and adaptation, building the evidence base for ‘what works?’ to end FGM/C). In addition, Options is responsible for running a number of learning events for consortium partners, as well as the wider stakeholder community.

The MEL Officer is responsible for supporting the Head of MEL, the programme team and consortium partners in implementing the programme MEL framework, including:

• Supporting the coordination and monitoring of programme MEL activities including data collection and analysis.
• Supporting the Options small grants mechanism to institute MEL and track results for overall programme reporting.
• Mapping programme data to the results framework.
• Ensuring evidence and learning feeds into programme adaptation and is communicated externally to the wider sector.
• Supporting MEL team to provide consistent MEL support to the Communications, Advocacy and Movement-building team.
• Providing capacity building support to grantee partners and consortium partners to strengthen programme MEL.

• Experience in MEL, including data management, in a large scale, multi-country development programme.
• Experience in programme performance measurement and developing monitoring, evaluation and learning plans.
• Good understanding of programme evaluation and learning cycles, data analysis and presentation of results.
• Experience using major evaluation methodologies (qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods) and data collection and analysis methodologies.
• Experience in MEL for gender and rights-based programmes, and / or in MEL for communications and advocacy.
• Experience providing MEL training to field officers and sub-grantees.
• The candidate will be empathetic and emotionally intelligent, as the role involves working closely with women and girls who may have experienced violence.
• Ideally, the candidate will have experience working with consortia, and will have previous experience in MEL for programmes funded by the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) or similar funders.