Assistant Officer-Research & Monitoring

Job Description

Title: Assistant Officer-Research & Monitoring

Company Name: Practical Action - Bangladesh.

Vacancy: --

Location: Faridpur, Satkhira

Salary: Tk. 42569 (Monthly)

Experience:
∎ 1 to 3 years

Published: 24 Jan 2024

Education:
∎ Master of Social Science (MSS), Master of Science (MSc)

Requirements:

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ An exciting role at Practical Action in Bangladesh has arisen for a dynamic, organized, and inquisitive individual. This position is based in Faridpur/Satkhira, Bangladesh with an excellent opportunity of contributing to the positive changes of climate distressed people. The successful applicant will ensure strong analytical, and coordination skills. The post-holder will give substantial data collection and community mobilization support to the multi-level research and engagement project that focuses on systems change to assess the challenges in – and opportunities for – integrating compounding, cascading risks to food systems into existing early warning systems (EWS).
∎ Project implementation and research (70%)
∎ ·  Data collection from primary and secondary sources, data cleaning, data validation, and data analysis, preparing transcripts, writing reports
∎ ·  Schedule and conduct interviews. Select a place to conduct interviews and obtain permission from all participants. Summarize interviews.
∎ ·  Maintain accurate records of interviews, safeguarding the confidentiality of the interviewee as necessary.
∎ ·  Update databases and prepare findings to include new information and create a summary of that analysis to pass on to the project team.
∎ ·   Assist other researchers with various tasks, including data entry, sampling, and storage, field research, statistical analysis, and presentation preparation.
∎ ·  Verify numerical data in both digital and written form, ensuring that any errors that may occur during transcription are eliminated.
∎ ·  Maintain and update project implementation plans for the assigned work package. Identify continuous improvements and lessons learned.
∎ ·  Regularly visit field and maintain linkage with line department and Union Parishad to collect information and share with the project team as required by the Project Manager.
∎ · Conduct regular field visit and monitor the functionality of the ‘Disaster Alert apps’ & Digital Weather Board and find out its obligations of their operations, troubleshot the problems.
∎ ·  Create research/assessment summaries in multiple formats, including spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and written summaries.
∎ ·  Handle necessary administrative paperwork and other documentation needed for project validation and research quality control.
∎ · Assist project team to prepare reports of completed projects for publication, for presentation to the agency requesting project, or for use in further applied or theoretical research activities.
∎ · Work closely with project team, thematic lead, and MEL & Research Lead to use the knowledge products to meet advocacy objectives of the projects.
∎ ·  Support in preparing the monthly/quarterly/annual/donor report and share with respective colleagues.
∎ · Any other duties consistent with the nature, level and grade of the post as required.
∎ Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Reporting (25%)
∎ ·   Provide required support for establishing effective MEL system across the intervention and ensure its routine functioning.
∎ ·  Contribute to preparing tools and guideline according to MEL plan;
∎ ·  Assist in developing common and specific indicators (or issues/focuses) for an effective change/impact measurement framework.
∎ ·  Coordinate in measuring most significant changes, biggest impact, assessing success and failure of a project.
∎ ·  Support programme delivery team and thematic team in developing new projects, writing periodic reports with quality.
∎ ·  Contribute to building team capacities related to MEL, participatory action research, various approaches of measuring change and evaluating projects.
∎ ·  Track achievements of outputs and outcomes through result-based monitoring
∎ ·  Conduct routine monitoring visit and provide feedback to the respective management to improve the implementation quality of the project.
∎ ·  Maintain output/results-oriented database as part of establishing systematic information flow through online application.
∎ ·  Support to Practical Action’s MEL and Research team and external consultants to conduct different studies namely, baseline, end-line evaluation, field research, etc.
∎ ·  Document the learning and best practices for use in the programme and future programme development.
∎ ·  Support to MEL and Research team to prepare global Indicators report of Practical Action
∎ ·  Contribute to design a compatible MIS system including automated process for brief and real time monitoring.
∎ ·  Develop global indicators report of the project.
∎ ·  Follow the standard of Programmed Quality and Delivery (PQD) framework in every aspect of the MIS and study related activities.
∎ ·  Assist to prepare annual and donor reports with required analytical support.
∎ Organizational Policies, Safeguarding and Code of Conduct (5%)
∎ ·  Ensure that all involved acting on the organisation’s behalf is well aware on Safeguarding Policy, Diversity and Dignity in the Workplace Policy, Code of Conduct, Fraud policy and Whistleblowing policy.
∎ · Ensure beneficiaries whom we work with are aware of the safeguarding policy including the reporting lines when appropriate.
∎ ·  Be responsible that anyone acting on our behalf has signed up to the Safeguarding and Code of Conduct policies.
∎ ·  Ensure our ethics and values, as set out in our Code of Conduct and related policies, including safeguarding, are embedded in team culture, and well modelled by others. Ensure that reporting structure are well promoted and respond to all concerns appropriately.
∎ · Responsible for gender responsive behaviour in all actions and decisions. Ensure non-discriminative behaviour based on gender, age, sex, race, ethnic background, culture, disability, nationality, religion, and marital status. Is sensitive and adaptable to gender and social inclusion.
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Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Contractual

Job Location: Faridpur, Satkhira

Company Information:
∎ Practical Action - Bangladesh.

Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job

Application Deadline: 7 Feb 2024

Category: NGO/Development