To support the implementation of the two projects Green Forward and EU Support to Democratic Reforms, Expertise France will set up project teams based in Amman. 

For MedInGreen, the team will be headed by a Project Manager and will include a GCE public policies Expert, an Awareness raising & capacity building Officer, an events organization & Communication Officer and a logistic Assistant.

For EU support to democratic reform, the team will be headed by the Project Manager and will include a project officer and a project assistant. About 80% of activities will be implemented through three implementing partners who will receive individual grant contracts from Expertise France. Hence, the MEAL officer will be responsible for setting up the overall project MEAL plan, provide training to all partners to ensure ownership of the MEAL plan, collect and consolidate data from each partner (based on common reporting mechanisms and tools).

The position of the MEAL Officer (position concerned by this announcement) will be shared between the two projects.

Reporting to the Project Managers of both projects, and working with the MEAL Coordinators based in the HQ, the MEAL Officer, will be in charge of:

1.        Developing the MEAL plan

o   Adapt regularly the MEAL plan to the needs and capacities in terms of tools and practices for monitoring-evaluation and learning, data collection and reporting of the team and implementing partners.

o   Update annually a solid MEAL plan, co-constructed with the project's stakeholders, in line with the commitments set out in the Agency's MEAL policy, 

o   To ensure that the monitoring and evaluation plan is in line with Expertise France's policy in this area, as well as the needs and expectations of the donors involved (AFD and the European Union).

2.        Rolling out the Monitoring and evaluation (MEAL) plans:

o   Put in place the technical and organizational MEAL tools: software licenses, communication methods, etc.

o   Develop the data collection, analysis and visualization system, and the corresponding tools (Kobo questionnaires, ODK, dashboards, reporting formats, etc.).

o   Estimate the reliability of objectively verifiable indicators based on samples and the quality of the data available.

3.        Implement the MEAL plans:

o   Train all stakeholders/implementing partners on MEAL and the mechanisms / tools developed to facilitate their involvement in the implementation and use of the MEAL system;

o   Collect and process data, document processing;

o   Interact with stakeholders on data collection and interpretation;

o   Produce MEAL indicators and reports;

o   Contribute to the annual review exercises and presentations to the steering/monitoring committees with the project team; 

o   Develop, with the Project Managers, the terms of reference to identify external service providers for MEAL plan, if necessary, and support them to select and supervise them;

o   Share the results and conclusions of monitoring and evaluation activities with the project team.

o   Be the main focal person for external evaluations conducted by the EU.

4.        Learning :

o   Develop in a participatory manner and coordinate the projects learning strategy , as well as the associated action plan/timetable and the typology of deliverables;

o   Organise and lead internal learning  exercises and develop learning  materials/tools;

o   Set up a filing and archiving system for digital and paper data (reports, questionnaires, etc.) and productions.

Cross-cutting tasks: 

o   Manage, supervise and coordinate the work of short-term MEAL experts and service providers working in the activities supervised by the Officer;

o   Participate in the development of the general projects’s workplan;

o   Write content based on data from the MEAL system to feed the various communication media;

o   Actively participate in the project’s internal coordination (team meetings, etc.);

o   Advise the project team and operators so that the data collected is used to make appropriate operational decisions and to meet contractual commitments and internal accountability requirements;

o   Any other relevant tasks. 

Green Forward, will place great emphasis on limiting its carbon footprint, but travel to the countries concerned by the project will be necessary for its successful implementation. The MEAL Officer must therefore be available to carry out these professional missions.