Monitoring & Evaluation Assistants

 
Monitoring & Evaluation Assistants (Various 21 Locations)
Sector: Monitoring & Evaluation/Data Collection
Location: Pakistan
Employee Type: Regular
Employee Category: Full Time
Description
Job Locations in Total 21: AJK ( Kotli, Hattianm, Neelum), Balochistan (Jafer Abad, Jhal Magsi, Kachhi/Bolan, Sibi, Lasbela, Naseer Abad), Gilgit Baltistan (Hunza Nagar, Ghizer), KPK (CHARSADDA, MARDAN, NOWSHERA, PESHAWAR, SWABI), Sindh (Jamshoro, Tando Allah Yar, Mitiari, Naushero Feroze, Shaheed Benazir Abad)
Program Background Summary: Pakistan Reading Project (PRP) is five year USAID funded project starting in June 2013 to support the provincial and regional Departments of Education (DoE) throughout Pakistan to improve reading skills of at least 1.3 million children in grade one and two. The project will achieve this goal through three major but interrelated initiatives that are working together to affect the quality of primary education, teacher education, policy reforms, and community engagement to re-establish a national culture of reading in Pakistan. The result will be improved reading and assessment of 23,800 teachers in 23,800 public schools with improved skills in teaching reading; 3,649 scholarships for ADE and B.Ed (Hons) students; and mobile bus libraries reaching out to 300 communities. PRP anticipates that 2.5 million children will be able to read at a level commensurate with standards at their grade level.
Job Overview/Summary
The M&E assistant will be working under the technical supervision of the provincial/regional M&E coordinator and administrative supervision of district program manager and in a close coordination with the school support associates and M&E officer. S/he will be mainly responsible of gathering data, follow up on activities and reporting M&E data to provincial/regional offices. S/he will also be responsible to follow up with the field team regarding collection of means of verifications against completed activities at district level and submitting them to regional M&E office.
Major Responsibilities: Provide filing, printing, scanning and other automation support to district staff.
Assist M&E team in data collection and reporting evidences against the activities completed at district level to provincial office.Assist to perform data reviews, cleaning and apply validation and triangulation checks for reporting data.Support in logistics of field data collection tools and manage log of all incoming data.Help M&E Coordinator/Officer to cross-check evidences and other means of verification for the progress reported in monthly and quarterly reports.Organize all data evidences for activities completed at field level of their districts.Help to prepare various data summaries and perform data entry of feedback forms for various trainings/orientations completed at district level.Assist School Support Associates (SSA) to upload information on M&E Information System.Provide support to arrange in-house orientation to district staff on upcoming data collection surveys and studies.Any other task assigned by the M&E team.