monitoring and evaluation officer
Monitoring and evaluation officers are responsible for the conceptualisation, design, implementation and follow-up of the monitoring and evaluation activities of projects, programmes, policies, strategies, institutions or processes, along the relevant programming cycle. They develop monitoring, inspection and evaluation methods and instruments needed to collect and analyse data, and report on results by applying structured M&E frameworks, theories, approaches and methodologies. M&E officers inform decision-making through reporting, learning products or activities and knowledge management. They can also engage in capacity development activities by providing training and capacity building support within their organizations or for clients and partners.
Also called: impact assessment manager, MEL Project Officer, research and evaluation officer, monitoring and evaluation specialist, social impact assessment specialist, monitoring and reporting analyst, MEL officer, social impact assessment analyst
- 33
- essential skills
- 16
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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- ISCO-08 group
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Essential skills
33- adapt evaluation methodology
- apply organisational techniques
- apply statistical analysis techniques
- commission evaluation
- communicate with stakeholders
- create data models
- data protection
- define evaluation objectives and scope
- design questionnaires
- develop communications strategies
- engage with stakeholders
- ethics
- evaluation theory
- formulate findings
- gather data for forensic purposes
- implement data quality processes
- information confidentiality
- international development
- manage data
- manage project metrics
- manage resources
- observe confidentiality
- perform data analysis
- plan evaluation
- reconstruct program theory
- report analysis results
- respect data protection principles
- results-based management
- scientific research methodology
- survey techniques
- types of evaluation
- use databases
- use specific data analysis software
Optional skills
16- conduct qualitative research
- conduct quantitative research
- conduct training on monitoring and evaluation frameworks
- create data sets
- development economics
- interview people
- maintain data entry requirements
- manage data collection systems
- manage quantitative data
- monitor recommendation follow-up
- perform data cleansing
- policy analysis
- process qualitative information
- promote evaluation capacity development
- sustainable development goals
- systems thinking
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