Background

Enabel in Tanzania is seeking to recruit a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer to fill vacancies based in Dar es Salaam and for the pool. The experience sought is mainly in the management of Monitoring & Evaluation as well as knowledge management activities at an organizational level.

The person is responsible for ensuring that all necessary information is available to the project teams to follow up performance, to support strategic decision-making, to render accounts of results achieved and to generate the necessary data for evaluation and knowledge building to inform future interventions by Enabel or its development partners.

Job description

Joining Enabel as a MEAL Officer, you will be directly reporting to the Resident Representative and you will perform the following key tasks:

• You are the focal point for the operationalization of the project indicators through appropriate identification of the required information, the sources, and the monitoring system and framework.
• You evaluate existing data collection methods and improve the overall data collection in collaboration with the other program staff, partners, and external service providers;
• You support knowledge building/action research by collecting relevant data and entering these in the monitoring system;
• You organize data collection in accordance with the planning of the monitoring activities and the technical specifications for each indicator;
• You capitalize on good monitoring practices and share and disseminate the developed tools.

Your profile

Required Qualifications :

• Master’s degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Quantitative Economics, Statistics or any other research-related field.

Required Experience :

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in the management of M&E and knowledge management activities at an organization level;
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in evaluation methodologies, data collection, analysis, and interpretation of data;
• At least one experience in organizational capacity building and/or training on M&E, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Building, and/or research.

Required Knowledge and Skills :

• Broad and in-depth understanding of the diverse aspects of development cooperation;
• Knowledge in designing and implementing knowledge management strategies, preferably in the context of development programmes;
• Technical know-how in the monitoring of social services projects: either skilling, employment, health, general education;
• Thorough knowledge in developing and implementing data-collection instruments, reporting, and learning exercises (evaluation, action research, knowledge building);
• Understanding of data management and statistics, change theories, system approaches, and logical framework;
• Proven competence with survey and indicator development and results-based management practice;
• Can work independently, and manage multiple projects and/or tasks simultaneously.
• Pro-active results-oriented management;
• Excellent collaboration, interpersonal and diplomatic skills;
• Good digital skills (MS Office, polling platforms, project management software, virtual meetings software);
• Excellent synthesis, writing, and presentation skills

We offer you

• A fascinating/ interesting/varied job in an international environment.
• A definite period contract of 45 months.
• You are based in Dar es Salaam, Kigoma, Mwanza or Tabora with frequent travel to the field
• A salary package that comprises the monthly gross salary, in accordance with our salary scales (class 5) and acquired experience. The contractual conditions include also medical insurance, holiday bonus, and 13th-month payments. The final contract will be established according to the organization’s salary policies.
• Following this recruitment procedure, a shortlist of successful applicants may be constituted which may be sourced in the next three years for similar job openings.

Every person who fulfils the conditions listed in our job advertisements may apply. Enable is committed to equal opportunities and diversity in its workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, origin, age, religion, disability status or any other factor other than competence.