About EWB

Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Australia is a for-purpose organisation with offices in Australia, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu, as well as state and university-based volunteer chapters across Australia. EWB works alongside communities and organisations in Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region across three major focus areas:

• Designing, developing, implementing and promoting inclusive, equitable, sustainable and accessible technology;
• Redefining engineering as a socio-technical profession providing stewardship and leadership for a more equitable and sustainable world;
• Educating, connecting and motivating an engineering community who believe in a world where technology benefits all.

At EWB, we strongly believe that every engineer can be a change agent for a socially just and sustainable world. This belief drives EWB to lead a movement of like-minded individuals and companies working together to ensure technology is developed to make the world a better place for all.

Role Summary and Key Responsibilities

Role type

0.6 FTE, 7 months fixed-term parental leave contract, with the possibility of extensions

Role purpose

Provide coordination support to the MEL plans of projects within EWB Australia’s Engineering Program.

Summary

EWB Australia is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Coordinator to support implementation of MEL in 20-30 projects across Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu, and On Country within Australia. Project objectives range from product development to systems strengthening, and cover sectors such as WASH, agriculture, GEDSI, and climate change.

Since 2023, EWB Australia’s Engineering Program has launched a new Program Logic, MEL Framework, and refined reporting and learning processes. The role of the MEL Coordinator will be to ensure that projects within the Engineering Program are utilising these processes in an effective and timely manner.

This role does not have any direct reports but may require the management of a small team of remote volunteers/interns who support MEL or data visualisation.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing the overall coordination of developing project MEL Plans, including reviewing and signing-off on project logic models, MEL frameworks, and data collection plans
• Supporting project staff with the planning and coordination of data collection, analysis, and reporting activities in a timely manner
• Providing remote mentorship of MEL processes to project staff in Australia, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, and Vanuatu, including facilitating monthly check-in meetings
• Collaborating with Engineering Program Enabling Team to ensure MEL input is effectively coordinated for internal and external reporting requirements, including DFAT/ANCP
• Facilitating learning and information sharing within project teams and across projects within the Engineering Program for collaborative decision-making
• Facilitating the sharing of project MEL outcomes to other departments, such as Marketing and Communications, to support organisational knowledge translation, as required
• Supporting the refinement of MEL tools and processes, as required
• Managing and coordinating MEL volunteers or interns, as required

Selection Criteria

You will have demonstrated success in and/or proven knowledge in:

• MEL management and implementation: Confident grasp of conducting MEL and research activities in an international development context
• • Developing logic models, performance measurement frameworks, and evaluation plans
  • Designing tools and managing data for both quantitative and qualitative methodologies (e.g. household surveys, focus groups, stories of change). Specific experience using Kobo Toolbox and PowerBI an asset.
  • Preparing evaluation reports and other knowledge translation outputs
  • Upholding best practice research and evaluation processes and ethical principles

• Cross-cutting themes: Understand how cross-cutting issues such as gender, social inclusion, disability, and climate change intersect with project implementation and should be embedded in MEL processes

• International development and/or for-purpose sector: Experience working in international community development in the Asia-Pacfic context and understanding of key opportunities and challenges faced by the sector, including knowledge of key stakeholders, influence networks, and common terminology. Specific experience that would be considered an asset are:

  • International field work, particularly in Cambodia, Timor-Leste, or Vanuatu

  • STEM fields, human-centred design, WASH, agriculture, GEDSI, and/or climate change

  • DFAT or ANCP-funded development projects

• Communication skills: Able to effectively communicate information and data insights, both written and verbally, in a manner that engages and motivates a variety of audiences with diverse technical and cultural backgrounds

• Learning culture: Value the importance of sharing and reflecting on project successes and challenges for collaborative decision-making and ongoing improvements

This role will require you to:

• Be curious with a passion for monitoring and evaluation, capturing community stories, and sharing learnings
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and cross-cultural competency with a patient, creative, and solutions-focused approach
• Proactively engage with team members to appropriately identify and respond to opportunities and challenges
• Utilise strong organisation, computer proficiency, and detail-oriented skills to ensure tasks are completed on time
• Be confident working independently and autonomously with limited supervision

If you have any questions about the position, please email [email protected] using the subject line: Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Coordinator enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.