Technical Assistant (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning – MEAL)
- Career Category: Assistant, Economics, Agriculture, Monitoring & Evaluation
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: Negotiable
National of Cambodia
Type of requisition: NPP (National Project Personnel)
Organizational Unit: FACMB
Duration:8 months with possible extension
Reporting Lines
The Technical Assistant (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning – MEAL) will work under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative (FAOR) in Cambodia and the PEARL Senior Project Officer, the direct and day-to-day supervision of the Technical Specialist – MEAL, and in close collaboration with the Technical Advisors and Technical Specialists, FAO representation team, and government counterparts.
Technical Focus
The Technical Assistant (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning – MEAL) will assist the National Technical Specialist and International Technical Advisor for MEAL in providing staff capacity development support and implementing the MEAL plan. The Technical Assistant (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning – MEAL) will assist Technical Specialist (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning – MEAL) in using standard tools/systems for data collection and analysis to improve and enhance operational and programmatic performance of the PEARL project. The Technical Assistant (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning – MEAL) will assist to provide ongoing technical support based on capacity gaps/needs to the project staff, government counterparts and partners to apply the PEARL project standard tools/system proficiently for high-quality real-time data collection and reporting. The Technical Assistant (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning – MEAL) will be accountable for preparing and ensuring high quality of the project beneficiary registration, counting and reporting with regular update to component team.
- Specifically, the Technical Assistant (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning – MEAL) will:
- Prepare high quality of beneficiary (BNF) data management (i.e. registration, update, check & address duplicate, clean and update weekly list of BNF)
- Support in providing MEAL training and technical capacity support to the project team and operational partners in the implementation of the MEAL plan and build their capacity on data collection, analysis and reporting.
- Support the development of tools and processes to support more effective collection, aggregating and analysis of project information to support enhanced MEAL activities under the project, including Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI) tools and digital knowledge management systems.
- Support to monitor all project activities and progress towards achieving the project outputs.
- Support to monitor and evaluate overall progress and the sustainability of the project results and prepare monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual M&E reports for project and government counterparts, respectively.
- Support to prepare analyze and provide inputs, information, and statistics for semi-annual and annual and other reports.
- Systematically collect and review project activities to make sure that the activities are being implemented within the work plan and budget.
- Participate in annual project reviews, project steering committee meetings, and planning workshops and assist the FAO Representative and the project team in preparing relevant reports.
- Collect and consolidate quantitative and qualitative data for good practice and lessons-learned for dissemination.
- Support the project staff in preparing relevant MEAL reports.
- Participate in periodical field trips to the project sites.
- Assist other tasks as required in order to deliver the above tasks.
- Bachelor's Degree in statistics, management, Economics, Agriculture Development or related fields
- At least of experiences in designing and implementing data collection and reporting system in development projects with national and international NGOs/UN and Government agencies for 3 years
- Experience from UN projects would be desirable
- Working knowledge of English and fluency in Khmer
- Demonstrated development work experience in programme planning, data collection, analysis, reporting and management
- Basic knowledge in KOBO Toolbox or similar software for database development and management
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, handle multiple tasks, work under pressure, and deliver assignment on time
- Familiarity with national and sub-national government and other stakeholders in Cambodia
- Expertise in any of the following: data collection tool design, database software and basic knowledge of agricultural value development in Cambodia.
- Results Focus
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Building Effective Relationships
- Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement
