Overview
Job Title: MERL Coordinator
Job location: Rukwa, Tanzania
Plan International
The Organization:
The Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian group that promotes children’s rights and gender equality for females. We believe in every child’s power and potential, but we are aware that poverty, violence, exclusion, and discrimination sometimes undermine this. Girls are especially affected.
Working with children, youth, supporters, and partners, we seek for a just world by addressing the core causes of the issues that girls and vulnerable children confront. We protect children’s rights from birth to adulthood, and we help children prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. Our reach, expertise, and understanding enable us to drive improvements in practice and policy at the local, national, and global levels.
For more than 85 years, we have worked with other dedicated optimists to improve the lives of all children in over 80 nations.
We will not stop until everyone is equal.
The Role Purpose:
The postholder is expected to coordinate MERL activities and system implementation, including program quality monitoring, accountability efforts, project evaluations, studies, and assessments, and the MERL budgeting process. The MERL coordinator will assist with project research, results dissemination, and promoting and supporting data use for innovative programming to meet the project’s targeted outcome. In addition, the postholder will assist MERL teams and partner workers with data consolidation and quality project implementation management. While the post-holder reports to the HoMERL, he or she may be needed to meet with the Thematic Leads on occasion to ensure that work in specific areas is completed efficiently.
The Dimensions of the Role:
The position holder for the role of MERL Coordinator will coordinate MERL technical initiatives to all projects (grants and sponsorship funded) in the Southern Programme Implementation Area, mainly in ensuring quality MERL initiatives in GGE and SPAD projects in all their circles from the design, planning, implementation, and transit phase as per project duration, and lead routine monitoring of project relevance and coherence in accordance with Southern PIA local government. The individual is in charge of developing and implementing an M&E framework and plan for Southern PIA. He/she will be in charge of documenting project learnings and tracking the adoption of the project’s existing data gathering tools for grants and sponsorship programs in the area. Furthermore, the job will ensure that MERL ethics and safeguarding ethical requirements are followed in the Southern Program areas. He or she will also oversee extensive qualitative and quantitative data analysis and reporting, as well as the input and usage of PMERL systems.
Work location: Rukwa, Tanzania
Answers to (Reports to): Head of MERL wit dotted line to Program Implementation Area Manager
The closing date: March 14, 2025
The Plan International’s core values are equality, diversity, and inclusion.
We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, providing equitable opportunities to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and motherhood, race, religion or belief, gender, or sexual orientation.
The Plan International is built on an inclusive culture, and we strive to build a workplace climate in which every team, office, and country is full of varied individuals, opinions, and ideas.
We cultivate an organizational culture that values our dedication to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights, and inclusion.
The Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many risks, it is our responsibility as an organization to do everything we can to keep them safe. This means that we have specific responsibilities to the children with whom we come into contact, and we must not contribute in any manner to injuring or endangering children.
A variety of pre-employment checks will be carried out in accordance with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In accordance with this program, we will require information from applicants’ former employers regarding any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment while employed, as well as instances under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant certifies that they understand the recruitment procedures.
The Plan International will never send unsolicited emails asking payment from candidates.
