Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, February 09, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The MEL consultant will provide technical assistance to the Councils on a part time basis for an agreed time-period and with defined tasks. Councils within the SGCI are requesting support in a range of areas to enable building capacity of respective MEL officers, departments and/or systems. Among other, the

The scope of the work
• The current funding available provides for 24 days of consultant time for UNCST for the support they requested. These 24 days are broken down as follows:
• Two (2) days of initial meetings with Council MEL officers/ designated MEL staff to agree final scope of work including review of existing MEL systems and documents. This includes the finalisation of a work plan for the Council’s MEL officer and/or MEL department on upgrading of their data collection, analysis and reporting procedures and systems
• Seven (7) days for working with the Council to implement the work plan
• Three (3) days for technical backstopping of Council’s MEL officer/ designated MEL staff member to write the first/ latest comprehensive MEL report
• 12 days for the MEL consultant to design a dedicated MEL dashboard for the council
• It is important that when considering the design of the MEL systems that they are compatible with the reporting requirements and theories of change of all international development partners and other funders that work with the Council.
• Where possible, this work should be conducted face-to-face i.e. where COVID-19 work place rules allow. Where COVID-19 working restrictions are in place, this work will occur virtually by phone, email and online meeting platforms.
• Deliverables
• These will be agreed during the scope of works but are provisionally expected to include:
• Finalised and/or updated MEL framework and plan signed off and in use by the Council
• Draft MEL dashboard
• A MEL report containing the latest MEL data across all (or an agreed number of) functions of the Council that can act as a baseline where no baseline currently exists and/or can assess progress against an existing baseline.
• Duration of the assignment
• The successful consultants will be given a three-month consultancy contract (estimated to start in mid-late March).
• Management
• This consultancy will be administered by ACTS under the guidance of the principal investigator working on the SGCI phase 2, Evi-Pol project. The PI is Dr. Rebecca Hanlin.
• At organisation level, the day-to-day management of the consultancy will be conducted by Noeline Basiime. The consultant’s responsible person will be Mr Streven Sebbale SGCI Coordinator. A monthly progress meeting involving the Consultant, ACTS’ PI or representative and the Council’s line manager. These will ensure that the tasks are on track, the objectives are being achieved and are in tandem with the support requested by the SGCs.
• The SGCI MEL Lead will also be involved from time to time in an advisory role.
• Contract value and payment
• This consultancy contract has a maximum potential value of US$ 7,200 (24 days at US$ 300 a day) inclusive of taxes.
• Payment will be made on completion of all work and sign off of deliverables. Total will not exceed the number of days and value of the contract.
• Please note all Kenyan consultants will be subject to 5% withholding tax on all invoices while other from outside Kenya will have a minimum of 20% withholding tax removed.

Qualifications of the applicants
• A Master’s degree in a relevant subject, for example in development studies, Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Results Based Management related social science fields
• Relevant MEL qualifications or over 10 years’ experience managing MEL projects
• Experience in collection, collation and synthesis of data using both quantitative and qualitative methods
• Must be based in sub-Saharan Africa; preferably in in Ugand
• Background in training and MEL advising in donor-funded programs and for government officials
• Proven experience in the monitoring and evaluation of capacity building programs and research
• In addition, candidates should also outline their competencies in the following areas:
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work on context specific needs/topics
• Flexible when it comes to change and open to receive and integrate feedback
• The following criteria will be used to evaluate applications:
• Experience in MEL, especially in the Council’s country
• Experience working with SGCs or other government agencies
• Track record of developing MEL frameworks and plans

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
To apply follow this link hr@acts-net.org 

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