Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Officer at Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for - and respond to - crises and adversity. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Officer

Location: Yobe
Type of Role: Fixed Term

The Opportunity

• Plan International Nigeria, as part of its commitment to improving the lives of people in the country, especially in the communities we serve and ensuring that issues limiting the opportunity for people to live a life devoid of disaster will implement the Alliance for Resilience to Climate-related Hazards (ARCH) project in Adamawa and Yobe States.
• The project designed as a four-year intervention, up scalable to 12 years, is expected to have a spiral effect in other parts of the country beyond the project implementation states. While the project will apply the Climate Resilience Measurement for Communities (CRMC) to address flood incidence in the project states, it will also focus on engagement with relevant federal government agencies on flooding and other climate-related matters.
• Project actions at the states will serve as models for purposeful interventions that could be expanded to the national level.
• The project will focus on making communities more resilient to floods by supporting systems strengthening and providing relevant technical reinforcement to emergency management structures that need to be strengthened at the community level linked to LGA and the state levels up to the national level, ensuring coordination and purposeful collaboration among the agencies.
• The Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Officer will implement the project’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) initiatives by providing timely, accurate information on project implementation and ensure that monitoring and evaluation are in line with specific project and donor requirements, and in line with Plan International’s MERL standards.
• The role’s support is to achieve accountability, transparency and programme quality in project locations.
• The post holder is to ensure that project’s activities are in line with the Logical Framework and relevant guidelines.

About You

• We are looking for a holder of Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 3 years’ work experience in monitoring and evaluating programs with an organization that has a robust MERL component.
• Prior experience with Plan International or related non-governmental organization is preferred.
• In addition, experience in developing child-friendly MERL systems/tools or doing research with children is a strong asset.
• He/she should have proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, research, reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation.
• Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple counterparts in private, public and NGO sectors. Strong understanding of gender transformative data collection and measurement.

Application Closing Date
24th December, 2023.