Melks Officer

**Transform Lives with Children Believe**

Join us to help break the barriers to education that steal children’s choices one by one until they have none. Together, we can foster an environment where education unlocks a world of choices, nurturing creativity, resilience, and hope for a better tomorrow. At Children Believe, we won’t stop until every child can dream fearlessly and grow up to live the life they choose to live.

Children Believe is currently recruiting for the following position:
**MELKS (Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, Knowledge and Sharing) Officer - Ethiopia Office**

The Monitoring, Evaluation, (ME), Learning & Knowledge Management (KM) Officer will dialogue with the Country office Program Manager and senior management at the Country Office on all performance-related issues, including those that may impact policy and programmatic decisions. The incumbent is responsible for shaping up country strategic plan with relevant key indicators and measurement tools ensuring the focus of gender and social inclusion and undertake studies/document thematic case studies to create a knowledge base in line with strategic KPIs, CoE and Influence Agenda in collaboration with the PM and others.

This is a field centric role and the position holder is expected to provide facilitative leadership and technical guidance over MELKS related functions of CB and all its current and future subsidiaries or affiliates (CO). The Officer will be responsible to monitor and analyse and report country strategic plan and gender outcomes and undertake studies / document thematic case studies to create a knowledge base in line with strategic KPIs, CoE and Influence Agenda in collaboration with the PM. S/He will also be ensuring outreach of results to different stakeholders as relevant for positioning CB at the national/regional/global level.

This role includes, but not limited to:
**A. Monitoring & Evaluation (ME)
- 30% of Time**
- Work collaboratively with the program / management team in drafting country strategic plan, theory of change with operational and strategic KPIs specific to CO Ethiopia for measuring impact
- Refine, engender and finalize the ME framework included in the program and project proposal.
- Develop and roll out of the ME strategy with gender and inclusive perspective for the project in close consultation with the project partners / program team.
- Refine indicators, develop monitoring instruments and ensure timely data collection for analysing the progress and evolving learning and recommendations for improvement / course correction
- Ensure program/project assessments are undertaken and relevant baseline data collected so as program monitoring and evaluation can take place;
- Develop and implement standard monitoring and reporting formats.
- Ensure timely and accurate program/project tracking, analysis of gendered outputs/outcomes, and reporting.
- Write monthly / quarterly / annual reports, in close collaboration with program & project partners, and support Mid / End Project Review and related reporting requirements.
- Prepare briefings for presentation to the Country Program Manager on the program´s and project’s activities and lessons learned in collaboration with PM / program team.
- Ensure that program & project partners fulfill their ME obligations and that reporting systems are harmonized among the project partners and the funding partner.
- Identify core program / project for third party evaluation and facilitate it by engaging relevant external institutions / independent consultants to measure the impact in consultation with CD, RD and RNBDM.

**B. Knowledge Management (KM)
- 30% of Time**
- Define and implement a knowledge management approach aimed at enhancing knowledge sharing and delivering planned results.
- Develop and manage instruments for knowledge sharing and exchange with partners and other relevant project, programs and institutions /stakeholders.
- Work closely with program and project implementing partners to seek for the latest developments in all relevant thematic areas and take advantage of all mechanism for contextualizing and sharing that knowledge.
- Prepare knowledge products, including best practices and lessons learned, change stories, newsletters, interim assessments on program impact indicators, and pointers on strategic Intent.
- Draft monthly knowledge sharing reports to stakeholders on the developments in the project.
- Provide technical guidance and contributions to partners / CB staff on joining gender-related/CoE knowledge networks and communities of practice to share learning and experiences on GeSI and other relevant outcomes.

**C. Guidance & Technical Support: - 30% of Time**
- Provide technical insights and quality inputs that are responsive to influence national / regional priorities from a gender and inclusion perspectives based on the evidence based results and advance COs influence agenda
- Implement learning aspects of new Program Design (project desi