Overview
The consultant will support the day-to-day implementation of project activities, coordinate with stakeholders, and develop and operationalize the project's Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the day-to-day implementation of project activities.
- Coordinate with project staff, implementing partners, consultants, and service providers.
- Develop, operationalize, and continuously update the project's MEL framework.
- Establish and maintain comprehensive systems for monitoring project progress.
- Design and implement monitoring methodologies and data collection tools.
- Conduct regular monitoring missions, field visits, beneficiary consultations, and data quality assessments.
- Maintain and continuously update project monitoring databases, dashboards, and tracking systems.
- Contribute and assist to the preparation of donor reports, briefing materials, presentations, and other knowledge products.
- Support the planning, coordination, and quality assurance of project activities.
- Review and provide technical inputs to project documents.
- Monitor the implementation of grants, consultancies, and service provider contracts.
- Support the organization and documentation of project coordination meetings and stakeholder consultations.
- Contribute to project risk management.
- Provide technical oversight and coordination of all project communication and visibility activities.
- Support external monitoring missions, evaluations, donor visits, internal audits, and quality assurance exercises.
- Ensure that cross-cutting issues are systematically integrated into project implementation, monitoring, reporting, and learning processes.
- Perform any other assigned project tasks.
Required Experience
- At least three years of progressively responsible professional experience in monitoring and evaluation, preferably within migration, labour mobility, reintegration, livelihoods, or socio-economic development programmes.
- Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation frameworks, including data collection, verification, analysis, reporting, and results-based management.
- Sound knowledge of the labour migration landscape in Uzbekistan, including relevant policies, institutional frameworks, and key stakeholders.
- Proven ability to develop and manage M&E tools, databases, dashboards, and data quality assurance processes using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
- Experience supporting the development and review of project methodologies, monitoring tools, and technical documentation, including ensuring alignment with project indicators and cross-cutting priorities such as gender equality and social inclusion.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or higher in Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, Development Studies, Migration Studies, Public Policy, Data Science, or another relevant social science discipline from an accredited academic institution.
