Regional Measurement Advisor – East Africa job at International Rescue Committee (IRC) | Apply Now

Provide METAL leadership, technical oversight, and coordination towards the delivery and quality assurance in the region. Oversee activities within country programs to ensure continuous improvement in data quality and standards are maintained and data audits are conducted, with key emerging issues addressed.

Support IRC’s country leadership and regional teams in their efforts to use measurement data for decision making; driving better efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptation in our programs.

Ensure best practices of project learning and evidence generation is shared across the region and used effectively for key internal and external audiences, including for donor reporting and advocacy work.

Support the establishment of Client Responsiveness (CR) systems, including client need assessment, baseline, satisfaction surveys and the collection and use of routine feedback data in Countries together with technical advisors.

Diagnosing the health of our METAL systems and the quality of our data and information flows to inform help strengthen and leverage our METAL foundations.

Providing support in the review of strategic proposals, with a focus on ensuring sound log frame, targets, METAL plan and budget. Ensuring use of the consistent standard indicators within and across countries in the region, leading to meaningful aggregations and potential benchmarking opportunities.

Lead METAL planning on multi-country proposals and other large/complex proposals, as designated by the Deputy Regional Director.

Support countries with delivery of complex METAL products where needed, such as assessment, baseline, midline and endline surveys, evaluations, and learning activities.

Support in-country DDPs (Deputy Director of Programmes) and senior measurement and learning staff in the hiring, onboarding and continuous mentoring, capacity building and professional development of measurement staff; as well as advising Country Office on recommended staff structure, software and hardware for effective measurement.

Support the success of IRC Country, Regional and Global METAL initiatives; foster collaboration with country program teams, and channel the countries’ perspectives to the METAL Unit.

Understanding the specific needs of teams and offering technical support and upskilling and encouraging teams to become spokespeople for successful tools, resources, systems, and data use.

Ensure the roll-out of Program Data Toolkits and the Program Indicator Dashboards in the region and country programs

Providing support for routine and ad-hoc measurement activities throughout the program cycle in accordance with the relevant IRC METAL Handbook and Project Cycle Meeting guidelines

Provide leadership at regional and global level; actively contribute to the development of a sound METAL strategy; and ensure alignment of METAL goals and priorities at country, regional and HQ levels;

Contribute to the development of METAL Unit strategic plans.

In collaboration with peer RMAs and Regional Technical Leads, foster METAL excellence within and across IRC regions, supporting the Measurement Community of Practice (CoP), and supporting staff development to identify and cultivate METAL leaders at country, regional and global levels.

Support the success of IRC Country, Regional and Global METAL initiatives; channel the countries experience, interests, aspirations and concerns to the Measurement Unit.

Stay abreast of new measurement developments in and outside IRC; Partner with relevant technical units to assure products are fit for purpose and according to best practice standards for methods and use of data.

Involve country programs in the delivery and iteration of existing MEAL technology products and innovation and development of new initiatives to help the IRC develop and maintain effective and relevant data collection and analysis tools.