Employer: Village Enterprise 

Industry: Nonprofit/International Development/Social Entrepreneurship 

Job Title: Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Coordinator-DREAMS Project 

Reports to: Senior Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Manager 

Location: Melkadida - Ethiopia 

Duration: 1 year 

Organization Description:

Village Enterprise’s mission is to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship, innovation, and collective action. By empowering women, refugees, and youth to launch small businesses and savings groups, our cost-effective model provides dignified and sustainable pathways for people to lift themselves and their families out of extreme poverty—for good. To date, Village Enterprise has trained 342,369 first-time entrepreneurs, launched 106,530 businesses, and impacted more than 2,168,886 million lives across Africa. Village Enterprise has operations in four countries—Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda—and works with partners in other sub-Saharan countries. As Village Enterprise continues to scale, our aim is to lift 20 million people out of extreme poverty by 2035. 

DREAMS Project Overview:  

Delivering Resilient Enterprises and Market Systems (DREAMS) for refugees provides an innovative solution that will drive refugee self-reliance. DREAMS will equip the most vulnerable refugees with the security and dignity that comes from providing for one’s family. The program integrates two proven models –poverty graduation and Market Systems Development –layering these approaches in a new way that will ensure that the poorest refugee households are able to improve their income and well-being significantly. 

Graduation provides the capital and skills to support refugees as they establish their businesses, and Market Systems Development helps to build market access pathways to ensure those businesses can be successful.

The following are the responsibilities for the role

• Regional/Project Specific MEL support
• Cross-Region/Project MEL support
• Operations Roles
• Safeguarding

Regional/Project Specific MEL Responsibilities

Lead implementation of MEL Team initiatives for region/project(s), including:

• Manage data collection budget and timeline.
• Measure and enforce adherence to data quality protocols, including:
  • Supervise Senior Enumerators, ensuring monitoring of data collection and ensuring audits are both carried out accurately and productively.
  • Conduct timely data quality assessment of all incoming data and submit data quality reports to supervisor.
  • Supervised DQA may be assigned to advanced Senior Enumerators.
• Timely cleaning of all participants tracking and monitoring data.
• Analysis of participant tracking and monitoring data when needed.
• Maintenance of participant tracking and monitoring dashboards and custom reports; creation of additional internal reports and memos as necessary.
• Creation of MEL Reports for funders/stakeholders in line with regional/project specific obligations.
• Train field teams of region/project(s) in data capture responsibilities as they relate to: targeting, participant enrolment, participant tracking, grant applications, and business spot checks.
• Supervise Senior Enumerators to ensure high quality trainings are delivered to enumerators in relation to all data capture responsibilities.
• Build and maintain relationships with field staff. Coordinate with staff from other teams as necessary towards the following goals:
  • Procurement of enumerator protective gear and data collection equipment as needed.
  • Open and clear communication channels are maintained for sharing of MEL findings.
  • Clear timelines are in place for when staff might expect formal reporting (ex., targeting verification reports within 2 weeks of close of targeting business owner registration status available in real time but data fully cleaned within one week of final sync).
  • Additional findings are shared with relevant parties on an ongoing basis.
  • Problems are brought forward, lessons learned’ are openly discussed, and innovations/solutions are tested.
  • Staff understand why information is needed from them and by when (for example, each cycle
  • BM assignments are needed at least a week before the refresher training so that the database can be prepped and the new targeting forms can be assigned to the Business Mentors in advance of the training).
• Support the Senior MEL Manager in Coordinating MEL and Senior Enumerator activities with Consortium partners in matters relating to MEL.
• Coordinate the documentation of best/promising practices as well as documenting Lessons learnt for possible scale up within Village Enterprise areas of operation Supervise Enumerators.
• In addition to the responsibilities outlined above:
  • Recruit and train new Field Officers as appropriate and under the direction of Senior MEL Manager.
  • Support P&C in recruitment and training of Field officers as needed under the direction of Senior MEL Manager.
  • Review Enumerators planned expenses.
  • Review Enumerators’ field activity plans.
  • Review Enumerators’ field activity reports; on a monthly basis, aggregate relevant details from reports for sharing with staff (e.g., PMs, CDs, F&A, etc.)
  • Host weekly meetings with Enumerators.
  • Monthly reports on key findings in the field
  • Attend all trainings as will be required by the M&E team.
  • Data entry as may be required by the M&E team.
  • Community liaison.
  • Ensure quality data collection by enumerators.
  • Validate all the data collected by the enumerators assigned.
  • Supply accurate data collected from the field, at baseline, midline and end line as required by the M&E Team.
  • Provide weekly reports on any challenges encountered during the process of data collection.
  • Share best practices seen in the field for program improvement.
  • Upload data immediately.
  • Double check and synchronize data on a daily basis.
• Other monitoring and evaluation tasks as assigned.

Cross-Region/Project MEL Responsibilities:

• In collaboration with other MEL Coordinators and under the guidance of the MEL Manager:
  • Create or maintain high quality training materials (Manuals, PowerPoint presentations, practice Taro Works forms, etc.)
  • Conduct timely updates of targeting data, Business Owner registration, Business Groups, Business Saving Groups, Small Grant data etc. in salesforce.
  • Design (when necessary), create, and publish, data capture forms for outcome data, assist with data cleaning, analysis and reporting.
  • Database management
  • Participate in special project evaluations, and review of M&E tools .
  • Develop and maintain templates to be used by Senior Enumerators for planning and reporting
  • Develop, document in MEL Manual, and maintain policies and procedures to be followed by Enumerators.
  • Maintenance of MEL Manual.
• Other monitoring and evaluation tasks as assigned.

Operations Role

• Assist in the adaptation, implementation, monitoring, and expansion of the Village Enterprise graduation program.
• Provide support to field management team when needed.
• Other operation tasks as assigned.

Safeguarding: "Safeguarding at VE is everyone’s responsibility"

• Continuously sensitize program participants about possible risks of child abuse, sexual/financial exploitation, prevention and response mechanisms.
• Ensure compliance with VE’s safeguarding policies and Code of Conduct in all programs, operations and practices.
• Report any incident of child or adult safeguarding in program operations for appropriate action and follow up.

Living Our Values

• Ubuntu: We serve people living in extreme poverty with respect, empathy, and dignity regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, or education level, and value our common humanity.
• Passion: We believe passionately in our mission and the ability of people living in extreme poverty to improve their lives.
• Integrity: We operate with the highest levels of integrity and trustworthiness.
• Innovation: We value innovation as a means to reduce poverty and treat new ideas, new technologies, and new partners as opportunities to grow our impact.
• Sustainability: We are committed to ensuring that our businesses and our organization are sustainable in the long-term.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Agricultural Economics, Economics, Statistics, Development Studies, or a related field. 
• Training or certification in Impact Evaluation, Social Return on Investment (SROI), or Results-Based Management (RBM) is desirable
• Knowledge of agricultural value chains, preferably coffee, and smallholder farmer livelihoods in Ethiopia

Key competencies

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in MEL roles within agricultural, livelihoods, or market systems development projects.
• Possess the technical knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in the role, including Strong quantitative and qualitative skills and experience with data analysis, good command of STATA, Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, MS Word, Power BI, and MS PowerPoint, Proficiency with Google Documents, Gmail, and Mobile data collection applications. Experience working with Salesforce is an added advantage.
• Proven track record in designing and managing MEL frameworks for projects testing innovative interventions or pilot.
• Experience conducting economic and cost-benefit analyses, including SROI or similar methodologies.
• Experience with adaptive management, learning agendas, and integrating research findings into program design.
• Demonstrated capacity to translate field data into actionable insights for both program improvement and sector-wide learning.
• Experience working with multi-stakeholder initiatives, including private sector actors, farmer cooperatives, and government agencies.
• Understand the elements of data quality: consistent, complete, accurate, timely, verifiable, valid Proven ability to design monitoring and evaluation plans, including developing theories of change and logical frameworks 
• Ability to develop SMART indicators Literacy with the basic methods for data collection: surveys, interviews, performance tests, site visits/observation, focus group discussions, participatory methods, pre-existing data     
• Experience conducting data quality assessments and with cleaning data, Experience supervising data collection and teams of field worker
• Possess Training and Communication Skills
• Demonstrate ability to communicate key concepts to people with less than Level 5 education.
• Ability to orally communicate issues, problems, and key information.
• Ability to write clear, concise memos highlighting issues, problems, and key information.
• Experience working as part of a diverse team with the ability to work via email, phone, Teams, Zoom, Google Meet and other virtual communications
• Flexible, self-motivating, able to manage multiple tasks efficiently, and a team player.
• Must be a very strong critical thinker able to identify potential solutions to challenges in new environments. 
• Experience with Salesforce and/or Taro Works. 
• Experience working in Refugee contexts especially in Somali region
• Ability to speak Somali Language 

Indicators of Success

• High-quality data collection and monitoring systems maintained across assigned projects.
• . ⁠Monitoring, dashboard, and reporting products delivered on schedule.
• ⁠Monitoring and participant tracking data cleaned and available for decision-making within established timelines.
• ⁠Part-time enumerators effectively recruited, trained, deployed, and monitored to deliver quality data collection.
• ⁠MEL findings, updates, and data products effectively communicated to program teams and management.

Equal Opportunity:

Village Enterprise will provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals. Employment decisions at Village will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Village does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, gender identity, age, disability, marital status or any other characteristic protected by the law. Village will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in undue hardship to daily operations. Village Enterprise does not charge money from applicants at any phase of recruitment. Please report all malpractices to our toll free telephone number 8495

To Apply:

• Please send your Cover letter and CV in single attachment to the link addressed to the Human Resource Manager, Email subject should read ‘DREAMS MEL COORDINATOR’’.
• Your cover letter should explain why your experience and background make you the ideal candidate for this position and should be no more than one page.
• Note: Please do not contact Village Enterprise to enquire as to the status of your application. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. 
• Deadline: Applications will be accepted through July 13, 2026

• Pension
• Medical Insurance
• Group life Insurance