M&E Advisor, Education<\/h3>\n

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NB: This role can be based in Amman, Jordan. Applicants from other IRC registered locations will considered, provided applicants have the right to work there.<\/p>\n

The IRC delivers education programs in 22 countries reaching nearly 1.5 million children around the world. The IRC\u2019s educational interventions strive to help children and youth gain valuable skills and knowledge that will increase their opportunities and life chances, and contribute to their well-being and livelihood. The IRC supports formal and non-formal learning activities that lead to tangible learning outcomes in literacy, numeracy, socio-emotional learning, and marketable skills and promotes the protection and psychosocial well-being of conflict-affected children and youth.
Job Overview\/Summary
The Education M&E Advisor will strengthen skills and systems needed for IRC\u2019s education technical unit and field teams to collect and use education M&E data to inform design, continuous quality improvement and course correction. This position will also be responsible for advancing our work with IRC\u2019s Measurement Technical Unit in developing one to two measurement tool kits to support country programs to collect routine data on a few prioritized education program indicators; as well as to work with IRC\u2019s Airbel Impact Lab to develop two case country studies that demonstrate good practice and lessons learned on the use of data to inform course correction, client responsiveness, and continuous quality improvement. The Advisor will report into the Senior Technical Advisor for Education (STA).
Responsibilities
M&E strategy and systems
\u2022 Work with the STA, Education Technical Advisors (TAs), measurement team members, and selected country programs to assess education M&E, data, systems, and skills, and develop and implement a plan to strengthen foundational M&E and data management in education across IRC country programs, through a combination of direct support and capacity-building (see following section);
\u2022 Work with the STA and Education TAs to design use cases for program and implementation data – identify the most important strategic and implementation decisions that require program data;
\u2022 Identify incentives, skills, structures, and systems required to collect, store, analyze and visualize program and implementation data;
\u2022 With field staff and technical unit team members, develop simple, user-friendly tools to collect, store, analyze and visualize data;
\u2022 Support routine, organization-wide M&E workstreams such as regular updates to Theories of Change, core indicators, and IT system roll-outs;
\u2022 Participate in improving internal processes to strengthen data capture and management.
Capacity-building and learning
\u2022 Develop and roll out tools to strengthen the capacity of field staff to be able to collect and use data for ongoing decision-making in their programs, including tool adaptation and contextualization;
\u2022 Increase data savvy among the Education TAs through continuous capacity-building, including webinars, and production of related training materials as needed, on topics prioritized collaboratively with education technical unit colleagues;
\u2022 Support program staff to design, implement, update and deploy data dashboards, in alignment with broader IRC approaches to data visualization and sector-wide best practice;
\u2022 Work with the Education and Technology TA and Education TAs, as well as the IRC Measurement Technical Unit to create one to two measurement tool kits to support program staff in routine data collection on core education indicators and establish shared practices and standards across IRC education programs; identify needs for additional tools and toolkits collaboratively and proactively pursue additional opportunities for improvement;
\u2022 Develop case country studies that demonstrate good practice and lessons learned on the use of data to inform course correction and continuous quality improvement, and share lessons learned with other stakeholders and country teams;
\u2022 Interface with the IRC\u2019s Measurement Unit and relevant working groups to learn from other sectors\u2019 challenges and success in this space, and expand and promote conversations to share learning within the education TU and across country teams ;
Key Working Relationships:
\u2022 Position Reports to: Senior Technical Advisor, Education
\u2022 Position directly supervises No current direct reports, potential for supervision of consultants, specialists, or officers as work evolves.
\u2022 Indirect Reporting: N\/A
\u2022 Internal: position works closely with the Measurement Technical Unit, Senior Researcher, Education; Education Technical Unit; and education country teams
\u2022 External: New York University \u2013 research partners
Position Requirements
\u2022 Advanced degree in a relevant field such as economics, statistics, international development \/ public policy, or other social sciences
\u2022 Technical understanding of education in humanitarian response contexts strongly preferred
\u2022 Experience (at least 5 years) designing, developing, and rolling out education M&E tools and systems, through both hands-on work and supporting others
\u2022 Experience developing data systems and working with education-related data sets to enable use of data by front line educators, education program managers and education leaders
\u2022 Experience analyzing and presenting data, and developing or managing the systems to do this, in simple ways to enable use of data for decision-making
\u2022 Experience working with and building the capacity of individuals from a wide range of countries, cultures and with a range of expertise related to M&E and data collection, analysis and use, both in-person and remotely
\u2022 Experience with mobile data collection and analysis tools especially ODK-based applications (Kobo, Ona, Formhub, Commcare, etc.)
\u2022 Experience with data analysis\/visualization software (PowerBI, Tableau), GIS, R, STATA, or SPSS
\u2022 Familiarity with use and analysis of common international M&E tools for education (e.g. EGRA\/EGMA) preferred
\u2022 Fluency in written and spoken English is required; proficiency in French, Spanish, and\/or Arabic is preferred
\u2022 Strong organizational skills: the ability to work independently and productively in a fast-paced environment
\u2022 Flexible work attitude: the ability to work productively in a team and multi-sectoral environment & independently
Working Environment:
\u2022 Standard office work environment
\u2022 Travel required (up to 40%)
The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Equality, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.
How to apply
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M&E Advisor, Education<\/p>\n

NB: This role can be based in Amman, Jordan. Applicants from other IRC registered locations will considered, provided applicants have the right to work there.<\/p>\n

The IRC delivers education programs in 22 countries reaching nearly 1.5 million children around the world. The IRC\u2019s educational interventions strive to help children and youth gain valuable skills and knowledge that will increase their opportunities and life chances, and contribute to their well-being and livelihood. The IRC supports formal and non-formal learning activities that lead to tangible learning outcomes in literacy, numeracy, socio-emotional learning, and marketable skills and promotes the protection and psychosocial well-being of conflict-affected children and youth.
\nJob Overview\/Summary
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