Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Research Fellowship [Cairo, Cairo Governorate] Egypt
POSTED BY: The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
REF:ICARDA 58
Date Published:Thursday, March 30, 2023
Date of Expiration:Tuesday, September 26, 2023 EXPIRED
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Job Type Full time Date Posted 27 March 2023 Dead line 27 April 2023
ABOUT ICARDA The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is a treaty-based international non-profit research organization supported by CGIAR.ICARDA’s mission is to reduce poverty, enhance food, water, and nutritional security, as well as environmental health in the face of global challenges including climate change. We do this through innovative science, strategic partnerships, linking research to development and capacity development that take into account gender equality and the role of youth in transforming the dry areas. ICARDA works in partnership with governments, universities, civil society, national agricultural research organization, other CGIAR Research Centers, and the private sector. With its temporary Headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, ICARDA operates in regional and country offices across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. For more information: All CGIAR Centers are currently engaged into a reform process (“One CGIAR’”) that will help ICARDA and CGIAR achieve better impact through more strategically integrated research, unified governance, an integrated structure, and new research modalities across participating Research Centers. This transformation is supported by CGIAR donors who have committed to increased funding as a result of these reforms.
PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP POSITION 1. To ensure that it is fit for purpose, through enhanced organizational effectiveness, ICARDA adopted a results-based management (RBM) system, mainstreamed across and beyond the organization, under the custodianship of the ICARDA MEL team. 2. The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team at ICARDA is comprised of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) sub-team, the Knowledge Management (KM) sub-team, the Data Management (DM) sub-team and the Research Software Development (RSD) sub-team. 3. The ICARDA MEL team staff are located in several countries across the globe and work collaboratively with MEL, Data and Knowledge Management teams from the CGIAR System, other CGIAR centres and Research Programs, and non-CGIAR entities. 4. To further champion results-based management at ICARDA, associated CGIAR centers and research programs, ICARDA seeks to hire a self-driven and competent ‘MEL Research Fellow’. 5. The selected individual, under the guidance of the M&E Specialist, will contribute to the design and enhancement of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) systems and tools.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Support the formulation and review of institutional- and project-level results frameworks, including logical frameworks, theories of change, impact pathways, indicators etc. 2. Participate in the development of methodologies for outcome monitoring, including but not limited to the development of excel-based models. 3. Support the user-based testing and piloting of new features to enhance web-based MEL platform (). 4. Configure projects in the web-based MEL Platform. 5. Develop data collection tools and program (or supervise the programming of) the same in mobile data collection platforms such as ODK, ONA, CSPro, KOBOToolbox, etc., provide training on the use pf the developed data collection tool(s) and management. 6. Support ICARDA research programs in the development and review of Plans of Work Budget and reporting processes. 7. Support the identification, documentation and sharing/ dissemination of lessons learned. 8. Support evaluation processes initiated by ICARDA or partner/associated projects and research programs. 9. Undertake other tasks relevant for the efficient and effective running of the monitoring, evaluation and learning function, as may be assigned by the M&E Specialist.
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