The Technical Officer for Data Capture and Utilization will work within the Research and Evaluation Department to support monitoring and evaluation of projects, and contribute to research studies. The Technical Officer will be an integral part of Home Office-based project M&E support teams, and be involved in development of M&E and data collection plans, implementation of data collection efforts including programming data collection instruments for tablet use, data analysis and dashboard development to strengthen data utilization for continuous project improvement. A key quality of the Technical Officer will be his/her ability to translate M&E needs into efficient data collection systems, and a deep motivation to ensuring that data collected are utilized for adaptive management to the extent possible. Team spirit, collaboration, high quality standards and adaptability to changing situations are highly valued.
- Support G3E projects to define M&E plans and data collection needs, including indicator development
- Develop data collection instruments for paper-based and/or mobile data collection, ensuring that questions link back to key indicators
- Program and test data collection instruments for mobile data collection using programs such as Open Data Kit (ODK)
- Develop training materials and provide trainings to enumerators in the field, and monitor data collection progress
- Conduct data analysis
- Develop dashboard visualizations using platforms such as Power BI
- Participate in R&E meetings and research efforts as needed
- Contribute to developing robust data capture and utilization processes and to capacity building efforts for the entire R&E and field-based M&E teams
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and learning, communicating regularly on results and activities in assigned projects and fostering evidence building on common issues across projects within R&E and across FHI 360
- Contribute to the development of proposals in research and evaluation
- A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, including at least 2 years working on international education or youth and workforce development projects
- Experience programming data collection instruments using ODK or other survey programming tool
- Experience designing and implementing M&E plans in education/international development projects, including primary data collection
- Experience training enumerators in data collection
- Experience or interest in using new ressources for communications and data visualization efforts, particularly Power BI
- Quantitative research skills and proficiency in Stata and/or R
- Speaking and writing skills in Arabic, French and/or Spanish strongly preferred
- Ability to travel up to 25%
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and to adapt to changing circumstances; collaborative team spirit and cultural sensitivity are a must
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