Development Expertise Center (DEC) is a National Civil Society Organization (CSO) aspires to see all marginalized children properly fostered. The organization has four major programms; Child Development, Gender and Life Skill Development; Skills and Entrepreneurship Developmentand and Lobby & advocacy. DEC works in five National Regional States of Amhara, Afar, Gambela , Oromia Benishangul and Addis Ababa City Administration. DEC would like to recruit on the following position:

 MEL Assistant for Bahirdar Cluster   

 MEL Assistant to support  implementation of its Integrated Youth Activity. The MEL Assistant, under the direction and supervision of Kefeta MEL Officer at the coordination office, has a major responsibility of monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities of Kefeta’s performances and implementation. He/she is also responsible for organizing and analysing monitoring and evaluation data meaningfully and facilitates learning through sharing results, regular and evaluation reports and maintains Kefeta’s database

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Establish and support the implementation of a data management system at city level to inform planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning

•  Undertake regular visits to city level implementation sites (youth centres, health facilities, etc..) to support monitoring, evaluation, impact assessment

•  Assist the Kefeta team in carrying out assessments and researches and support collation and analysis of data in a meaningful way .

• Assist the project team in day to day monitoring of the project in the overall implementation and management of project activities for a high quality, innovative and effective learning programme

• Maintain beneficiary level information based on the project’s MEL system and protect confidentiality and data security at the site leve

• Support analysis reports production from CSO, youth hubs, youth coalitions, health facilities, outreach service modalities, and government stakeholders on a regular basis

• Compile and produce beneficiary level analysis report as per the needs of the project

• Produce success stories and best practice reports of Kefeta’s achievements at regular times and share them to project coordination office.

• Conduct periodic monitoring to the youth hubs, youth coalitions, health facilities, and other service delivery points, together with program teams as a quality check and verification of data sources

• Ensure quality of Kefeta’s performance data through regular monitoring of implementation sites and/or virtual databases

• Assist facilitation of Kefeta’s assessments (whenever conducted) in designing, implementation, and execution of youth-friendly researches at city and/or regional level

• Update and regularly document paper based and electronic forms of project documents

• Assist program teams in organizing consultative meetings, performance review meetings, and other evaluation forums

• Secure data and documents a per the rules and regulations of  the Organization and Donors

Required Number: 1  Sex: Female/Male   Age Below 35

Job Requirements

Professional Skills and Competencies

• BSc degree in Statistics, computer science, social science or other relevant field

• At least two year of relevant experience

• Experienced in MEL (preferably in youth-friendly projects)

• Experience in using and managing youth database

• Proven experience in the areas of data analysis techniques of both quantitative and qualitative methods

• Experience in statistical analysis software is a plus (Eg. SPSS, STATA, etc, …)

• Good command of English language

How to Apply

Submit your application letter, CV and credentials via email: melk@decethiopia.org

Incomplete applications will not be accepted.

Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted