Senior WPE Officer - Learning & Assessment

Responsibilities & Context

Purpose

In this position, the main responsibilities include enhancing capacity-building efforts with IRC's implementing partner and strengthening the monitoring and learning in IRC-tested GBV prevention approaches. The role plays a crucial part in monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on all aspects of our prevention activities with the goal of improving the overall quality of our programs. It involves providing guidance, coaching, and technical support for the SASA! Together Learning and Assessment system in areas where it has been introduced or recently implemented. Additionally, the role collaborates closely with the WPE coordinator, actively represents the program at various relevant coordination fora, and facilitates communication both internally with IRC WPE technical unit and MEAL department, and externally with the government, SASA! Together cohort, GBV prevention working group and partner NGOs.

Major Responsibilities

Designing, Planning & Implementation of Strategies for Data Collection & Storage, Analysis & Sharing

Adhere to and dedicatedly promote the women, girl, and survivor-centered support approach, and the GBV guiding principles.

Provide SASA! Together learning and assessment training to IRC and Partner staff.

Lead the M&E database of GBV Prevention approaches (such as the Girl Shine early marriage program, EMAP plus, SASA! Together, Safe at Home) and Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS) by ensuring accurate data entry into the database, cleanup, storage, and system maintenance, including troubleshooting.

Train and provide vital support to IRC and partners staff for the effective utilization of GBV prevention monitoring tools.

Ensure that all GBV data is disaggregated and safely stored.

Lead the periodic community assessment survey and institutional assessment survey to measure SASA! Together expected outcomes.

Together with prevention team, conduct community focus group discussions to capture insights, experiences, and perspectives from people in the community, including positive shifts and any signs of backlash or risk to women.

Conduct periodic performance assessment on usage of the SASA! Together L&A tools during the awareness and support phase and provide guidance for improve utilization of the tools.

Together with prevention team, ensure quarterly data analysis and feedback sessions from the activity plan and report, the activity observation form, and the community change tracker.

Hold regular field supervision visits, offer mentorship sessions and supervise project progress.

Collaborate with the Senior MEAL Manager to continue to identify areas for improvement and make improvements to data management tools across the WPE portfolio.

Assist WPE and partners staff to understand the databases/ tools developed and make corrections or improvements to them as needed.

Conduct exit interviews, FGDs, open discussions, and surveys for prevention interventions to receive feedback from the clients for improving services and support of IRC or partners to strengthen accountability to the clients.

Lead the prevention team on regular data collection and develop impact stories or success stories with the collaboration of the Sr. WPE Manager and share with Accountability and Knowledge Management specialist for the refinement of the best programmatic practice.

Take lead in translation of tools task -English to Bangla.

Report Writing & Documentation:

Conduct data analysis and supply inputs, information, and statistics for monthly, quarterly, annual, and other reports to WPE coordinator.

Undertake any other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.

Deliverables/KPI: