MEL Assistant
MEL Assistant
Position: MEL Assistant, CHN project- Jordan
FHI 360 is currently recruiting for the position of MEL Assistant for the USAID Jordan Community Health and Nutrition project. The Community Health and Nutrition project aims to improve the nutritional status of pregnant and lactating women and children under the age of two in three target governorates in Jordan. The project seeks to support child and maternal health and nutrition by improving breastfeeding practices, introducing appropriate complementary foods at the right time, and ensuring appropriate child spacing through postpartum family planning and continued adoption of modern forms of contraception. This position will be based in Amman, Jordan for a duration of three months- renewable as per the project needs.
Job Requirements:
Under supervision of the Senior MEL Specialist, the following monitoring and evaluation specific duties and responsibilities will be undertaken by the MEL Assistant:
- Contribute to data collection, analysis and reporting for ongoing monitoring and evaluation according to CHN’s Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Plan and plans of implementing partners (HCAC, RHAS and IFH).
- Work closely with CHN’s Senior MEL Specialist, CHN program management staff, partner M&E staff and grantee staff on all aspects of data collection and analysis. This includes contributing to finalizing data collection tools, field monitoring of data collection, data entry, data verification checking and quality assurance, data analysis and reporting.
- Assist with preparing ongoing monitoring reports for high level indicators across Development Objectives as well as internal project performance indicators in different formats including USAID’s Dev Results and GIS reporting.
- Contribute to maintaining key MEL documents internally on the project’s share point and USAID’s Knowledge Management Portal.
Qualifications:
• BS or BA degree in statistics, public health, or other relevant social sciences field
• 1-2 years of professional experience in data monitoring and working on M&E, preferably for complex international health and development programs and evaluation activities. Experience with USAID programs is preferrable
• Proven ability to provide highly accurate and thoughtfully constructed data formulations
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills
• Ability to communicate positively with a variety of project staff and stakeholders
• Demonstrated expertise in ‘excel’ is required. Proficiency with statistical software packages used for data analysis, such as SPSS is preferrable
• Strong written and oral skills in both Arabic and English languages are required
Deadline for application is January 28, 2023 COB.
This job description summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.
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