Senior MERL Adviser

1 month ago


Canberra, ACT, Australia Investing in Women Full time
About the Opportunity

The Senior MERL Adviser will play a critical role in designing, managing, and reporting on Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) activities for the IW program. This individual will lead technical work in key areas such as Workplace Gender Equality, Policy and Reform, and Gender Lens Investing, while collaborating closely with teams and partners to track progress and ensure meaningful insights through data collection and analysis.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support the Program in implementing, monitoring and reporting against program activities, tracking results and lead outcome evaluation activities for one (or more) workstream;
  • Design and implement quantitative and qualitative data collection (surveys, interviews, focus groups, case studies), analysis, research and reporting for review of workstream progress against the Theory of Change;
  • Work with IW workstream team(s) and counterparts within partner organisations (where appropriate) to:
    • gather, interpret and analyse primary quantitative data collected through their operations;
    • provide advice on their development and implementation of program tracking, monitoring and evaluation systems;
    • provide MERL capacity building support to workstream partners as requested by workstream teams, including support for workstream learning activities;
  • Support the MERL Director to recruit and manage short term advisers carrying out MERL activities, research or analysis;
  • Liaise and meet regularly with IW workstream team members and relevant IW partners to ensure the MERL team is up to date on program activities and challenges;
  • Provide written and verbal reporting of MERL findings to key IW staff and stakeholders, including through powerpoint presentations and infographics;
  • Together with the Workstream Director, lead workstream learning agendas, including through internal consultations and learning events, partner engagement, analysis of available evidence, and dissemination of learning products for internal and external audiences;
  • Support periodic review and update of the IW Theory of Change and MERL system;

Requirements:

  • Tertiary qualifications (or equivalent experience) in social sciences, preferably with a focus on quantitative and qualitative MEL, data collection/research and analysis of data;
  • Ability to present findings clearly and concisely (in writing and verbally) and to target communication to meet the needs of different stakeholder groups and end-users of information;
  • Experience engaging with senior counterparts and stakeholders to coordinate and execute evaluation activities, disseminate findings and build knowledge capacity;
  • Highly competent in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, with competency in other software such as PowerBI, SPSS and Strata also desirable;
  • Flexible and a team player, experienced in working effectively with a range of stakeholders;

About Us

Abt Global is a mission-driven, global leader with a proven track record in complex program implementation in the international development sector. We offer bold solutions and technical excellence in Health, Economic Growth, Governance, Research & Evaluation, Environment & Energy, Gender Equality & Social Inclusion. Working with our many partners, we have driven measurable social impact for more than 55 years, to achieve our mission of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people worldwide.



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