Reporting to the Senior MEAL and Reporting Specialist in her/his respective functions, the Performance Management Officer, works in close horizontal collaboration with the members of the RESEMBID team to ensure the optimal capability of the RESEMBID Programme in the key area of institutional performance management, including programmatic results.

The role represents a key contribution to ensuring the achievement of the programmatic results of RESEMBID. Accordingly, the incumbent adopts a whole-of-team, cross-cutting outlook, avoiding a narrow, vertical or siloed approach.

 Key responsibilities

I.               Performance Management and Reporting

A.            Performance Management

The incumbent supports the successful implementation of MEAL activities at the project and portfolio levels and the provision of data and other MEAL outputs in a timely manner to support internal management decision-making, accountability and learning

The incumbent supports the development and deployment of performance management tools within the team and across OCT projects, routine programme monitoring, and the preparation of MEAL reports for performance management, accountability and learning.

In particular, the incumbent, inter alia:

• ·       Develops, maintains and deploys internal and external performance dashboards and monitoring and tracking tools, including MEAL databases.
• ·       Routinely tracks and updates indicator values in the project logframes and in the RESEMBID Programme logframe.
• ·       Populates and updates TolaData, the RESEMBID web-based M&E platform, with project performance data, and generates customized and on-demand M&E reports.
• ·       Aggregates and analyses data from progress and final reports of projects to contribute to management decision-making, capitalisation of lessons and reporting.
• ·       Prepares monthly KPI reports to systematically document performance, track progress against indicators, and monitor the health of the RESEMBID portfolio.
• ·       Organises and participates in performance management events, including tripartite review workshops, quarterly MEAL review, monthly MEAL meetings with EF HQ, and in-country monitoring missions.
• ·       Updates and maintains MEAL filing system.

B.            Data Quality Management and Backstopping

The incumbent ensures the integrity of data generated by project MEAL systems and helps to strengthen the overall RESEMBID MEAL ecosystem for accurate and reliable reporting. 

Specific responsibilities include: 

• ·       Review and provide feedback on the quality of MEAL reports.
• ·       Conduct data quality audits and results verification for OCT projects.  
• ·       Provide capacity-building and other backstopping support to OCT implementing partners.

C.            Evaluation and Learning

The incumbent contributes to the achievement of the RESEMBID learning agenda through the generation of lessons learned from projects under implementation that can be applied to the design and implementation of similar interventions. In particular, the incumbent:

• Reviews and compiles key challenges and lessons learned from progress and performance reports and evaluation reports for projects under implementation and/or completed projects.
• ·       Disseminates and promotes the use of these lessons through learning events and products.
• ·       Provides input to the content for impact stories and other Communications and Visibility products