ahmad menkara, MONITORING AND EVALUATION MANAGER

ahmad menkara

MONITORING AND EVALUATION MANAGER

Danish Refugee Council

Lieu
Liban - Tripoli
Éducation
Master, Computer and Communication engineer
Expérience
11 years, 5 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :11 years, 5 Mois

MONITORING AND EVALUATION MANAGER à Danish Refugee Council
  • Liban - Tripoli
  • Je travaille ici depuis septembre 2021

 Oversee the implementation and coordination of MEAL-IM strategy and activities at field level, and ensure alignment of MEAL-IM activities with DRC Beirut and other Areas
 Ensure MEL plans are implemented according to schedule, including through regular field trips and physical observation at project sites
 Support the development, design and writing of proposals and concept notes in terms of MEAL input (logframe, budgeting for MEAL activities and staffing, MEAL narrative plan, etc.)
 Facilitate monthly monitoring meetings with Sector Managers to review monitoring findings and validate indicator performance, database system and key reporting tools
 Design and test quantitative and qualitative data collection activities, assessment and profiling tools at field level
 Produce periodic timely MEAL reports for internal and external stakeholders to ensure programmes have accurate and useful data to improve quality and inform project development, and support other internal and external reporting tasks, including donor specific monthly reports
 Facilitate organizational learning by ensuring lessons learnt from previous work are reflected in improved practices, feedback to sector specialists and the design of future work
 Provide support to beneficiary accountability mechanisms through existing systems
 Supervise MEAL/IM/Database staff for North Lebanon, leading recruitment, performance management, capacity building and training, and manage work plans and activities to ensure objectives and monitoring targets are met
 Provide support to implementing partners with best practices and the program M&E framework

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SENIOR OFFICER à Danish Refugee council
  • Liban - Tripoli
  • janvier 2019 à août 2021

JANUARY 2019 - AUGUST 2021
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SENIOR OFFICER, DANISH REFUGEE COUNCIL-LEBANON

 Part of the Monitoring and Evaluation Team working mainly on designing/developing, testing, maintaining, supporting and improving the database and management systems;
 Participate in developing and designing a database that maintains and organizes activities data and provides support in reporting, project tracking and data analysis;
 Build the capacity of DRC staff in terms of database use (including basic analysis) through on-going support and training,
 Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support field staff,
 Implement database security measures to safeguard information against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure;
 Develop user access levels for each segment of the database according to IM Coordinator / MEL Coordinator specifications
 Lead on follow up with partners on administrative details such as setting up and scheduling training, signing of data sharing agreements, gathering feedback and communicating challenges and issues to be addressed by DRC IM team and management.
 Coordinate and support the development of the user’s guide for the Referral system.
 Produce monthly reports on the developments of the Referral system implementation.

DATA SPECILIAST à Mobinets
  • Liban - Tripoli
  • septembre 2016 à mars 2018

 Perform Information and data management duties for MOBINETS project in Lebanon and abroad.
 Lead monthly Dashboard Analysis and provide monthly data to Clients
 Provide information management and data analysis of the Project Implementation Plans
 Support Project Manager to produce project data analysis as needed
 Oversee development of visualization of Mobintes Project data.
 Coordinate quarterly and yearly assessments for Mobinets project develop respective tools, sampling and be responsible for analysis and write-up of reports
 Support resource mobilization efforts by developing updated Project financial overviews;
 Provide data analysis for project KPIs and log frame.
 Support in quality assurance of communication products, as requested.

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OFFICER à Danish refugee council
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • mai 2016 à août 2016

 Participate in developing and designing a database that maintains and organizes activities data and provides support in reporting, project tracking and data analysis;
 Build the capacity of DRC staff in terms of database use (including basic analysis) through on-going support and training,
 Implement database security measures to safeguard information against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure;
 Develop user access levels for each segment of the database according to IM Coordinator / MEL Coordinator specifications
 Designing web application through wave maker using java programing language, ODK data collection/coding and Form hub, database systems (PostgreSQL, SQL-Server, MySQL, Oracle) as well in data security and encryption tools.
 Working on Tableau software for visualizing charts and data.

DATA MANAGER à Handicap international
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • janvier 2016 à avril 2016

 Improving the effectiveness of the database tools and services and ensuring all the data complies with legal regulations
 Ensuring data protection procedures are monitored and applied in all HI project across Lebanon.
 Regular reporting to the teams, automate the reporting activity
and produce monthly progress reports
 Monitoring database performance and Improving the technology used in building new databases
 Monitoring data entry procedures
 Mainly working in ODK data collection/coding and Form hub, database systems (PostgreSQL, SQL-Server, MySQL, Oracle)

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OFFICER à Danish Refugee Council
  • Liban - Tripoli
  • décembre 2014 à décembre 2015

 Participate in developing and designing a database that maintains and organizes activities data and provides support in reporting, project tracking and data analysis;
 Build the capacity of DRC staff in terms of database use (including basic analysis) through on-going support and training,
 Develop user access levels for each segment of the database according to IM Coordinator / MEL Coordinator specifications

Instructor/Trainer à higher technical institute of Tripoli
  • Liban - Tripoli
  • novembre 2011 à juillet 2014

Laboratory instructor in higher technical institute of Tripoli the main work in the institution is supervising on electrical and computer systems in new construction also troubleshooting, repairing and conducting routine maintenance of electrical systems (low current systems).

Quality Assurance engineer à MOBINETS
  • Liban - Tripoli
  • août 2013 à décembre 2013

quality assurance engineer at MOBINETS Company which is a leading provider of smart network solutions for Next Gen OSS. Based on a fully automated platform which simplifies and speeds up network planning, optimization, and provisioning and resource management by consolidating core, access, and backhaul network data into a real implementation. My main task was quality assurance for the operating mobile networks on different sites. In addition, working on an IP/MPLS project.

Communication and instrumentation site engineer à EPC
  • Arabie Saoudite - Khobar
  • septembre 2012 à février 2013

Communication and instrumentation site engineer along with energy and power contracting company ltd “EPC “Main contractor for “ARAMCO”, our main work is to build and update substation for GAZ plant dedicated for ARAMCO company under the highest standards, and my main work is concentrated on building and maintaining FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS, DDC (direct digital control ), PSA ( power system automation ), fiber optic installation and splicing.

Éducation

Master, Computer and Communication engineer
  • à Lebanese International University
  • juin 2014

My master thesis focuses on the Image processing for catching the unaware drivers while driving , i git an A grade on the Thesis and I've published different Papers related to my search topics and being presented in several international conferences

Baccalauréat, computer and communication engineering
  • à lebanese international university
  • juillet 2011

through the years of education I've succeeded in different telecom fields mainly in microwave studies and Radio frequency and Programming on different languages, My final project was inventing a demo board from scratch and programmed on PIC chip

Specialties & Skills

Engineering

Langues

Arabe
Expert
Anglais
Expert
Français
Expert

Formation et Diplômes

Certification in java programing and mobile application development (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
August 2016
Valide jusqu'à:
July 2018
Certification in Oracle database administration (primary course) (Formation)
Institut de formation:
EduDMG center, order of engineering, Tripoli-Lebanon
Date de la formation:
October 2016
Durée:
50 heures
CCNA (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Formatech
Date de la formation:
July 2009
Durée:
100 heures