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Strategy, Planning and Compliance:

• Lead the development and integration of inclusive MEAL strategies tools into the RIF Impact Framework for both Uganda and Jordan; and ensure leadership in MEAL strategy, advancing MEAL technical, human and financial capacities within the RIF team and ensure leadership in meeting DRC institutional MEAL commitments.

• Identify and plan for the human resources, financial resources, and time needed to carry out MEAL activities in line with the RIF Impact Framework and in accordance with DRC guidance.

• Ensure generation of learnings and annual planning, and development and revisions to the RIF results framework accordingly.

• Apply DRC guidance for MEAL and division of labour across RIF implementation countries as per MEAL workstream RASCI, particularly vis-à-vis RIF programme staff, and collaborate with the global RIF team to respond to shortcomings in compliance through actionable plans.

• Lead on capacity building, training and technical support for MEAL and programme involved in the RIF and enterprise investees to improve the field monitoring or any other MEAL needs under the RIF.

• Technical Leadership and Advice:

• Engage in and support quality throughout Project Cycle Management, in line with DRC and i-Gravity guidance and division of labour; accommodating external requirements and internal evidence needs, including the Portfolio RIF Framework and Global Results reporting. Specifically, ensure development and adequate maintenance of MEAL plans, indicator tracking tools, data analysis tools and other relevant tools under the RIF project.

• Lead the development of program and enterprise-specific MEAL plans and indicator performance tracking tools to monitor program results and investment impact, in partnership with iGravity.

• Establish and manage information management protocols, systems and infrastructure to collect, process, analyze, store, share and use data. In this apply DRC guidance with regards to GDPR and data protection, specifically for MEAL related data.

• • Undertake ongoing monitoring of results including data analysis as per program and enterprise-specific MEAL plans, agreed indicator methodologies, and develop and quality assure corresponding monitoring tools and templates for data collection. This entails Implementing data quality processes and tools, and regularly auditing data quality.

• Prepare data for reporting and visualization and share in user-friendly formats for internal and external stakeholders.

• Collaborate with the RIF Coordinator, global RIF team and Head of Program Uganda and Jordan to utilize MEAL findings for decision-making and identifying corrective actions, improving programming and advocacy. This entails contributing towards the promotion of a culture of learning within the RIF initiative.

• Lead the bi-annually Programme Quality Review across RIF implementing countries (i.e. Uganda and Jordan), including division of labour, data quality review, data aggregation and assessment and facilitate the results and learning sessions resulting from these exercises.

• Lead and oversee external evaluations, including approval of inception report, collection of data and final evaluation report. Lead the development of the management response based on the evaluation’s findings.

• Design, support and manage any other evaluative, review or research exercises based on needs and available resources. Ensure any such research is conducted with ethical considerations in compliance with DRC’s global research ethics review framework.

• Provide technical input on the MEAL related sections of relevant strategic funding applications and reports.

RIF Processes:

• Collaborate with the RIF Coordinator in the development of indicators and MEAL plans for technical assistance activities for identified enterprises.

• Collaborate with the RIF Coordinator in the identification of potential enterprise impact within target displacement affected communities, aligning with community needs as part of screening of potential investees.

• Collaborate with iGravity to identify key refugee impact metrics relevant for each company and define an impact framework for each investee.

• Contribute to the development of proposals for technical assistance grant allocations to the RIF Investment Committee.

• Provide MEAL-related technical assistance and advice to RIF investees on refugee impact, such as support developing impact management and monitoring systems.

• Collaboration, Teamwork and Networking