Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Coordinator

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The opportunity

• Support effective utilization of PMERL, MS Dynamics 365/SAP through regular review to ensure integrity of data for program and influencing initiatives.
• Support development of specific project databases and modifications database and software solutions for data collection, data capture and analysis.
• Ensure that research into MERL best practices is conducted and incorporated into developing new or improved MERL systems/tools. This will involve close collaboration with the Communications unit in conducting research on documenting best practices and success stories for lessons learnt.
• Support quantitative and qualitative analysis and review of the data collected across projects, organizing it into reports for different purposes and different audiences. The analysis needs to be gender sensitive and inclusive.
• Regularly track projects’ progress and update the projects’ Indicator Performance Trackers to support the projects’ reporting obligations to different stakeholders.
• Contribute to the quarterly and annual reporting requirements by providing timely and quality data to the MERL Manager.
• Contribute to the deployment of appropriate, gender sensitive and inclusive community feedback mechanisms, ensuring processes are in place for timely and adequate analysis and response.
• Support planning, design and coordination of project evaluations and research initiatives to ensure delivery of quality initiatives including implementation of the sampling methodology and data collection for evaluation and research initiatives.
• Conduct routine monitoring field visits of all the project activities to establish learning and development needs, using data collected to inform the learning and development of MERL interventions contributing to the knowledge and application of MERL best practices.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Quantitative Economics, Social Sciences, Social Work, Development Studies or a related field. Additional training at Post Graduate level in Monitoring and Evaluation, project planning and management or a related field is an asset.
• Experience in providing M&E for projects in both development and humanitarian contexts.
• Skills in Research methodology for both qualitative and quantitative data collection. This includes preferred knowledge of softwares particularly KoBo collect, ODK, SPSS, Nvivo and Microsoft Excel.
• Demonstrable experience in data and Project quality management techniques as well as expertise in developing thematic MERL reports.
• Demonstrable ability of speaking and writing both Portuguese and English languages a key asset.

Location: Maputo

Type of Role: Permanent

Reports to: MERL Manager

Pay range: 1.662.651,68 MT   to  1.930 821,30MT annual gross) Plan reserves the right to pay according to internal procedures

Closing Date: 22nd July, 2025

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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