Oxfam Pilipinas

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The MELSA Officer will have overall responsibility for ensuring that quality systems and processes for project monitoring, evaluation, learning, and social accountability are in place for the Care Connect Project.
• The post holder shall be under the supervision and shall be directly accountable to the Project Coordinator – Care Connect Project, but will work closely with the Gender Justice Senior MELSA Officer and the Gender Justice Portfolio Manager
• The MELSA Officer will support in preparing donor reports, proposal/concept notes preparation, oversight of identified research initiatives, and other MELSA-related deliverables for the Care Connect Project
• Support in the implementation of the OPH-wide and GJ MELSA system and capacity enhancement efforts, including peer-to-peer, and partners’ support and learning.

Project Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Social Accountability (MELSA)

• Develop, enhance, and regularly update with Oxfam Pilipinas teams and implementing partners the projects’ context analyses and formative plans (i.e., risk mitigation, safeguarding, disability inclusion, learning, sustainability, etc.), and ensure monitoring of such plans.
• Facilitate preparation, deployment, and updating of the Care Connect Project’s MELSA work plans (including relevant MELSA capacity building plans) with the project teams and partners to ensure timely implementation of identified MELSA processes based on the agreed MELSA framework.
• Assist in the operationalization of the MELSA team’s peer-to-peer support system, by the planned rollout of the MELSA toolkit and the MELSA capacity building program, and in close coordination with external consultant/s hired for such activities.
• Work with the relevant Oxfam Pilipinas project officers and implementing partners’ project MELSA focal persons in the preparation and dissemination of high-quality MELSA outputs, including regular reports to donors, learning products, and research/evaluation reports.
• Regularly report to and alert the direct line manager and the relevant project teams on any project-related risks, project implementation status, and emerging project opportunities and threats.
• Ensure effective operationalization of the project’s complaints and feedback mechanism (CFM) in line with Oxfam Pilipinas’ institutional CFM and the strategic partnership agreement, and of other agreed social accountability approaches integrated into the project’s designs/plans.
• Actively contribute to the design and implementation of planned baseline studies, project learning reviews, periodic outcome tracking, project-related research activities, evaluations in line with facilitating reflections among stakeholders around project results and lessons, including management of feasibility studies for the assigned projects.

Support to portfolio MELSA:

• Support Oxfam Pilipinas’ Gender Justice Portfolio Manager, Senior MELSA Officer, and Oxfam Country MELSA Manager in ensuring that any emerging knowledge from project implementation and learning under the gender justice portfolio is properly captured and shared via appropriate knowledge products and strategies.
• Support the MELSA Officer – Learning and Knowledge Management Lead in overseeing the formulation of the Care Connect Project’s learning agenda based on the agreed theory of change, and the design and implementation of relevant formative and programmatic research, and standalone research projects, that could contribute to the portfolio’s efforts to address identified thematic concerns.
• Actively engage in discussions and processes that are shaping Oxfam Pilipinas’ strategic directions, objectives, and ways of working by sharing relevant information and MELSA systems-generated outputs/lessons.
• In times of disasters, will be part of the potential humanitarian surge capacity as guided by the Humanitarian Portfolio Team.
• Perform priority organizational tasks related to his/her competencies, as may be assigned from time to time.