Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) is crucial for the high-quality implementation of projects and the development and evidencing of our approaches. MEL facilitates data-driven decision-making by showing whether results are coming about as expected, and whether adjustments to project strategies, assumptions, and our approaches are needed. TRVC’s MEL approach is based on a set of qualify criteria that support teams to use MEL throughout the project life cycle, from design to closure to test project strategies, inform potential adjustments and learn what impact the project is having on. In practice, MEL means constant analysis, reflection, learning and improvement of our work – enabling successful tailoring of approaches to local problem solving and context and full transparency for our donor and partners. TRVC already designed a full set of Program logics, MEL and Result Framework for its 5 years implementation.
Key Responsibilities
Under the overall leadership of the Team Leader, with day-to-day reporting to the MEL Advisor and in collaboration with MEL team members, the MEL Officer will be responsible for the following key MEL activities:
Following the established M&E framework, develop work plan for both quantitative and qualitative data collection to ensure data sufficiency and compliance with donor and SNV standards.
Collaborate with project staff and Government partners to conduct M&E activities in compliance with the planning, monitoring and quality assurance standards. This includes periodical monitoring in the field to track progress, and collect, process and analyse data on results, targets, milestones, performance and changes in the lifetime of the projects.
Perform data audit, aggregation, and analysis of relevant data to produce MEL report and for periodic monitoring, review, and evaluation of project activities.
Maintain and update project records (results and milestones) following TRVC’s Work Plan and Deliverables.
Foster participatory planning and monitoring by involving and training primary stakeholder groups in the M&E efforts.
Report findings to the Team Leader, Deputy Team Leader and MEL Advisor; appropriate Government partners and selected key audiences.
Support the preparation of MEL milestones and annual report to be integrated to overall Project reports to donor and ready for bi-annual and annual review and evaluation workshop events yearly review and evaluation workshops.
Support in selected activities as assigned per the project MEL Plan that include Company level milestone reporting, Company and project level progress discussions, project validation process, Annual learning workshops, Annual review and reporting, Lean data outcome surveys, Contribution analysis and External midterm and final evaluations by independent Evaluators.
Field Travel to Mekong Delta, particularly Dong Thap, An Giang for Project work as required
Other tasks as required.
Bachelor/Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Development, Sociology, Economic or related field.
Minimum of 3-4 years’ experience in development sector (NGOs, CSO), with at least 1 year of full-time experience with M&E tasks, preferably related to inclusive agriculture value chain development projects.
Good knowledge of M&E systems (result chains, logical frameworks, indicators, tools of verification etc.), impacts assessment, results-based orientation and approaches.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Google Sheets and other data visualisation platforms
Experience integrating programme learning into M&E systems.
Demonstrated capacity with data analysis and produce concise reports.
Experience cleaning and quality assuring large data sets is an added advantage
Good understanding of business and private sector.
Very good communication and interpersonal skills.
Very good written and spoken English and Vietnamese.
Excellent attention to detail.
Competencies
Planning and organizing: The ability to determine goals and priorities and to assess the actions, time and resources needed to achieve those goals.
Communication: The ability to communicate in clear language and to adjust one’s use of language to the audience’s level, making sure ideas and essence are understood by the audience.
Problem analysis: The ability to detect problems, recognise important information and link various data to trace potential causes and look for relevant details.
Result orientation: The ability to take direct action in order to attain or exceed objectives.
Focus on quality: Setting high-quality standards and striving for continuous improvement and quality assurance.

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
No