Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Officer

PRACTICAL ACTION

ABOUT US

We are an international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world.

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. Challenges made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. We work with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And we share what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.

We are committed to advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment through all our work. This includes programmes, knowledge sharing, advocacy, external communications, and our own organisational development. At a minimum, we ensure that all our work is gender sensitive, seeking gender transformative approaches as our overall ambition and in accordance with context.

We’re a global change-making group. The group consists of a UK registered charity with community projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, an independent development publishing company and a technical consulting service. We combine these specialisms to multiply our impact and help shape a world that works better for everyone.

OUR AIMS

We help people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems, made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. Our aims are to :

• Make agriculture work better for smallholder farmers, many of them women, so they can adapt to climate change and achieve a good standard of living
• Help more people harness the transformational effects of clean affordable energy and reduce avoidable deaths caused by smoke from indoor stoves and fires.
• Make cities in poorer countries cleaner, healthier places to live and work.
• Build disaster resilience into the lives of people threatened by hazards – reducing the risk of hazards and minimizing their impact on lives and livelihoods.

PRACTICAL ACTION IN KENYA

In Kenya, Practical Action has a long history of addressing systemic barriers that prevent people from accessing energy that transforms their lives, helping communities and government make cities healthier and safer, making agriculture and markets work better for small holder farmers and supporting communities and government to become more resilient.

We use a mix of programming with communities and consultancy services with shapers of policy and practice to achieve our aims in Kenya, with offices in Nairobi, Kisumu and Kakamega.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Practical Action puts emphasis on a systems approach to design programs for maximum impact. This means that we constantly endeavour to influence systems through our transformative work and use our learning for advocacy, while taking strategic opportunity to promote climate technology as a cross cutting theme across all of our work.

The MEL Officer will support in designing and continuation of relevant MEL processes and tools in coordination with project delivery teams and any other relevant implementing partners. This will involve; developing and supporting use MEL systems to collect, aggregate and analyse data in addition to playing a partnership role in ensuring the compliance and reporting requirements of key stakeholders are met in full.

SCOPE

Title : Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Officer

Reporting to : Project Manager

Matrix management : Senior MEL Officer

Direct reports : N / A

Relationships :

Internal : Programme Delivery Teams, Impact & Influence Team, Business Development team, Communications team.

External : Strategic Partners relevant to PA strategies

Financial scope : N / A