Job title: MERLA Lead (Meals Baskets)
Firm: RTI Worldwide
Job description: Job Description:OverviewAnalysis Triangle Institute (RTI) has over 30 years’ expertise aiding governments, communities, and the personal sector. As a not-for-profit, unbiased analysis institute based mostly in North Carolina, USA, RTI has roughly 6,000 workers with international expertise implementing worldwide improvement tasks.RTI’s Sustainable Progress & Resilience (SG&R) technical unit throughout the Worldwide Growth Group brings collectively RTI consultants and capabilities throughout meals safety, agriculture, power, surroundings, water, governance, and financial alternative. SG&R will leverage RTI’s expertise designing and delivering multisectoral programming and technical options to reply to local weather change, construct resilience, and promote financial development around the globe.SG&R’s World Meals Safety and Agriculture portfolio is working to strengthen agricultural markets, have interaction youth and girls as essential leaders of the on- and off-farm workforce, and deal with the twin burden of malnutrition across the globe. RTI’s work helps foster stronger meals programs, scale back malnutrition in all its varieties, construct resilience and interact the subsequent technology of meals safety leaders. RTI is presently partnering on practically 30 tasks in East Africa, together with actions centered on personal sector-driven agricultural development in Rwanda and market programs improvement in Kenya.Program Description:The aim of the $25-50M USAID Meals Basket (Nigeria) Exercise is to extend the productiveness and competitiveness of chosen worth chains and markets by constructing capacities of agri-businesses, eradicating boundaries to investments, and growing progressive monetary merchandise. The anticipated program might be based mostly in Nigeria.Place Description:RTI is searching for a Monitoring, Analysis, Analysis, Studying, and Adapting (MERLA) Lead for an anticipated USAID/Nigeria Meals Basket exercise. The MERLA Lead will oversee all MEL elements of the exercise, together with the design and implementation of the Exercise MEL Plan and corresponding data system to trace supply in opposition to targets. The place will promote studying and data sharing of finest practices, and dissemination of classes discovered and challenge outcomes as a part of its collaborating, studying, and adapting (CLA) strategy. The MERLA Lead will even mentor and assist all of the technical workers in MEL features and data-driven decision-making and can handle any MEL-related program workers. This place will report back to the COP and be based mostly in Abuja, with journey to state-level implementation areas.Please be aware that this place is contingent upon funding availability/award from USAID.
Obligations
- Serves as a member of management workforce, setting a constructive {and professional} tone for the workforce, collaborating intently with the opposite workforce leaders.
- Develop, monitor, and guarantee profitable implementation of Monitoring, Analysis and Studying Plan (AMELP) by overseeing challenge outcomes, information administration, reporting on indicators, capturing proof and studying, and supporting evidenced-based decision-making.
- Work intently with technical workforce members to collect and share needed information for M&E reporting wants and CLA actions.
- Oversee MEL technical help to subcontractors and native companions.
- Put together quarterly report summarizing efficiency in opposition to the indicator listing and efficiency requirements of the High quality Assurance Surveillance Plan.
- Assessment information and reporting to research progress towards targets and decide corrective motion wanted to enhance purpose achievement.
- Define particular studying questions and actions and work intently with the workers to generate, validate, and current information in user-friendly format.
- Facilitate constructive and collaborative dialogue throughout common MEL challenge critiques and biweekly workforce conferences.
- Help the Senior Administration workforce to steer quarterly “pause and replicate” efficiency evaluation processes with Workstream Leads.
- Symbolize the challenge in skilled circles via conferences, conferences, and displays and help with dissemination of challenge outcomes and studying.
{Qualifications}
- Bachelor’s diploma and 12 years of expertise, or Grasp’s diploma and 10 years of expertise.
- Not less than 8 years of expertise in managing and/or main MEL actions for large-scale agriculture or market programs improvement applications in West Africa, with not less than three of these years working in Nigeria as a senior advisor or workers member.
Key Data, Expertise, and Talents:
- Data of and expertise with civil society organizations, authorities and personal sector in Nigeria, with demonstrated understanding of native agricultural market programs is most popular.
- Sturdy analytical expertise to efficiently use information and proof to information program diversifications.
- Demonstrated expertise in organising and managing MEL programs that monitor efficiency as per the aims of Nigeria Meals Basket.
- Familiarity with CLA approaches. Wonderful skill to articulate oral and written technical data clearly and successfully to each technical and non-technical audiences. Information visualization expertise a plus.
- Demonstrated expertise in mainstreaming related GESI strategy into MEL programs.
- Expertise supervising MEL workers at totally different ranges throughout totally different workplaces.
- Confirmed skill to work independently and multi-task in high-pressure settings.
- Potential to journey and work in any of the anticipated precedence states.
- Wonderful interpersonal communication and writing expertise.
- Wonderful data of MS Phrase, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Data and expertise with utilizing statistical packages for information evaluation might be an added benefit.
- Verbal and written English proficiency is required.
- Expertise engaged on USG-funded programming in Nigeria.
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Location: Abuja, FCT
Job date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 22:31:16 GMT
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