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PMERL Specialist '“ Abuja:
Palladium:
Research, Teaching & Training:
- Abuja Full Time
- NGN Confidential
New
Yesterday
Job Summary:
Job Description/Requirements:
Project Overview and Role:
Primary Duties and Responsibilities: Â
Propcom+ is a new FCDO-funded eight-year (-), rural andagricultural market development programme supporting climate-resilient andsustainable agriculture and forestry that benefits people, climate, and nature.The programme is implemented by The Palladium Group, and it aims to transformNigeria's rural economy by addressing environmental, social, and economicchallenges in the country's food and land-use system. It will do this by (i)increasing productivity, improve nutrition and food security; (ii) enhancingclimate resilience, pursue lower emissions, and protect and restore nature, and(iii) helping to tackle some of Nigeriaâs underlying drivers of conflict andinsecurity. It does this by working as a âmarket facilitatorâ, identifyingconstraints in markets systems and facilitating changes to enable rural marketsto work better for the benefit of poor and climate-vulnerable smallholderfarmers and rural small-scale entrepreneurs.
Propcom+ has a target of increasing the incomes and climateresilience of 3.9 million poor and vulnerable people in Nigeria, 50% of whomwill be women, through a â3Psâ approach of interlinked components:
P1: Scaling-up a focused basket of Proven climate-smartinterventions around agricultural and primary processing / storage practicesand models to get these adopted by millions of poor and vulnerable smallholderfarmers and small-scale entrepreneurs.
P2: Building markets by developing and Piloting new businessmodels that improve productivity, enhance resilience to climate change, reduceemissions, and improve nutrition outcomes.
P3: Enabling Policies that support a strengthened enabling environment forsustainable food and land-use system.
PURPOSE
The key responsibilities of the MERL Specialist aredetailed below. These are not exhaustive and may change as the programme growsand evolves.
REPORTING AND LINE MANAGEMENT
This post will report to the MERL/GIS Manager andwill co-supervise some State-based Data officers.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Support the development, update of intervention guides for each intervention. This includes developing detailed theories of change, business models, MRM plans and support calculations.
Set up and manage dynamic and adaptive monitoring systems for each intervention that generate high-quality data at frequent intervals.
Support the conduct of baseline and impact surveys for P1, P2 and P3 interventions, market research, diagnostics, and scoping studies, GESI studies, etc.
Analyse large volumes of data generated from this system and derive actionable insights from them.
Provide regular feedback to intervention teams based on evidence collected from the field which can then be used for adaptively managing the programmeâs interventions.
Design effective study tools, instruments, methods and plans for gathering information that can inform programme strategies and capture impact of interventions.
Support Intervention teams in gathering relevant information for their various interventions and identifying knowledge gaps where available and developing strategies to fill those gaps.
Enable the creation of an effective collaborative bridge between Intervention teams and Field Coordinators to ensure effective allocation of field work.
Provide feedback on various reports and data analysis done from various studies to facilitate the production of internal progress reports as well as contribute to the overall programme reports for the donor.
Work closely with the Knowledge Manager to ensure that lessons learnt from interventions are duly documented and disseminated to a wider audience.
Work closely with the Communications Manager to develop case studies and success stories and ensure that these are disseminated to a wider audience.
Provide weekly updates and plans to the MERL/GIS Manager.
Develop monthly/quarterly/yearly work plans with other members of the MERL, Communications and Knowledge Management Team.
Manage the day-to-day activities and performance of State-based data officers and handle any issues faced by them on the field.
Undertake frequent performance field visits for both GIS/MERL purposes.
Required Qualifications:
The MERL Specialist should have: A degree in a relevantdiscipline including economics, geography, statistics, evaluation, socialsciences, or other related degree.
At least 3 years of MERL Manager experience in agricultural-related programmes.
Excellent analytical skills and expertise in the use of MS Excel, PowerBi and other data analysis tools.
Excellent skills in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint; proficiency in MS Access and infographics preferred.
Experience in the development of surveys and data collection instruments for monitoring programmes.
Excellent verbal and written communication