MEAL Specialist
International Rescue Committee
Total years of experience :19 years, 4 Months
Responsibilities
• Sharing of Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Report of Region.
• Data custodian of regional M&E
• M&E reporting and sharing of time to time required data analysis with stake holders and internal team
• M&E Plan modification.
• Analyze the existing reading assessments and results including Pakistan’s Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) and USAID’s Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) for the region;
• Coordinate with Assessment Specialist and authorities to design provincial reading assessment tools that gauge students’ performance against existing standards and those developed in partnership with the project;
• Conduct workshops with Department of Education officials to draft provincial assessments, informed by existing assessment and standards;
• Provide support to provincial governments to design and conduct standardized reading assessments and use the findings for informed decision making;
• Support piloting of draft reading assessments including logistics and data entry, analysis, and interpretation;
• Lead workshops to revise reading assessments to reflect analysis of pilot results;
• Ensure cohesion with other education policy, systems, and standards;
• Ensure that education assessment systems support is technically sound and effective in reaching program targets;
• Coordinate with Provincial Assessment Authorities to develop and implement an assessment strategy;
• Organize workshops for provincial assessment authorities to identify and address system needs, outline action plans, and set goals.
Accomplishments
• Successfully Completed Impact Assessment Study, Baseline, Mid-line and End-line, reports of student’s assessment in intervention schools.
• Successfully completed Impact Study Baseline of Batch II Students Assessment data collection and analysis.
• Successfully Completed Data collection for variation study from 4 targeted districts of KP (Haripur, Karak, D.I.Khan and Upper Dir- 230 schools were covered)
• Completed assessment cycle with Govt. officials of NEAS and FDE for sustainability of Assessment System.
• Conducted series of trainings for data collection through tangerine software.
• Completion of formative assessments in all targeted schools in Pakistan.
Responsibilities
• Establish monitoring and evaluation system;
• Lead the development and implementation of project’s M&E plan;
• Design the monitoring and evaluation tools and forms;
• Develop data collection procedures;
• Lead the development of the evaluation design, tools, protocols and procedures;
• Oversee monitoring and evaluation data collection activities, including logistics of form distribution and collection;
• Oversee data processing, including data transfer, entry, verification and cleaning;
• Train data collection and other M&E staff as needed;
• Oversee M&E database setup and management;
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative data analyses;
• Generate data reports in compliance with USAID procedures and agreements in the award;
• Ensure effective communication between M&E team, project staff, partner teams, and home office;
• Mentor and build the capacity of the junior M&E staff;
• Provide other management and support to M&E team as needed.
Accomplishments
• Reviewed PMP and aligned it to program activities;
• Developed M&E plan
• Developed reporting formats;
• Developed data collection sheet for every data point;
• Capacity building of district staff in reporting and setting reporting protocols;
• Successful completion of project’s baseline reports.
• Development of tools for Baseline;
• Collection, data entry and data analysis with the team;
• Facilitate in EGRA training refresher for 150 enumerators for both English and Urdu;
• Act as Quality Control Officer (QCO) in AJK district Muzaffarabad and ensure quality data collection for EGRA baseline;
• Act as Senior Quality Control Officer (SQCO) in Karachi and Quetta and ensure quality data collection for EGRA baseline and capacity building of QCOs and supervisors;
• Participated as team member for Finalization of EGRA Students’ Response booklet, student stimuli, student questionnaire, teacher questionnaire and head questionnaire in Urdu and English language;
• Cross verification of EGRA baseline intervention schools - 70 English medium and 180 - Urdu medium in
Islamabad, Karachi and Balochistan;
• Trained 18 Master Trainers on EGRA tools and questionnaires to train around 300 enumerators, and 15 supervisors for Gilgit and Baltistan, Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJ&K), ICT Sindh and Balochistan;
• Participated in development of Test Administrator manual for Pakistan EGRA baseline study.
Accomplishments
• Development of tools for Baseline;
• Collection, data entry and data analysis with the team;
• Planned, organized and facilitated training workshops for trainees and Master Trainers’ workshops;
• Participated as team member for development of Trans-adapted EGRA tools, questionnaires for students, teachers and head teachers for Pakistan Early Grade Reading Assessment;
• Successfully conducted EGRA pilot in the selected public schools (Girls’; Boys’) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa;
• Facilitated EGRA pilot in Islamabad Capital Territory for selected public schools of Federal Directorate of
Education (FDE) by supervising eight enumerators (four male and four female);
• Data entry, cleaning, verification of EGRA pilot selected public schools of ICT, AJK, KPK in Epi Info
Software;
• Data Management of EGRA pilot tools, questionnaires.
• Meet with the Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor and program leaders to plan and implement data collection and monitoring and evaluation of the EDLINKS program;
• Preparation of Annual Work plan Budget for all M&E activities.
• Review existing M&E systems and data collection instruments developed to date. Design if necessary and oversee quality of evaluation studies;
• Support the effort to improve or develop data collection tools and propose data collection approaches to support the PMP (performance monitoring plan);
• Visit project locations to verify the authenticity of the data collected;
• Plan and conduct the baseline data collection where required;
• Plan and streamline the database of the project activities implemented in the last 3 years;
• Plan and conduct data collection efforts to meet USAID reporting requirements on the implementation of project interventions / activities;
• Work with EDLINKS component leaders to complete data-gathering activities and ensure data are accurate;
• Provide technical support and training to regional program staff on data collection, using M&E tools and reporting.
• Provide technical support to M&E Staff working for timely data collection and analysis for reporting to USAID.
• Prepare relevant sections of quarterly and annual reports to USAID; and
• Conducted Assessment activity in 284 intervention schools in Baluchistan, 330 intervention schools in Sindh, 574 Schools in FATA.
• Completed base line study for Assessment.
• Coordinator of Mathematics Group for the Development of Pacing Guides for implementation of Standards Based Education in Pakistan.
• Dissemination of all Assessment activities information to stake Holders.
• Preparation of quantitative information table regarding Assessment activities for Quarterly Progress Reports (QPRs).
• Work closely with AKU-EB Assessment related activities in focused districts.
• Capacity building of schools in terms of Teachers Training and Establishment of Computer and Science Labs in schools and working on the “Implementation of the new Standard Based Education Curriculum of Pakistan” to these Districts.
• To look after the “Improved Student Learning and Learning Environment” and specially the assessment component of the objective.
• Monitoring, Implementation and coordination of the Assessment Activities in selected schools of project.
• Taught Mathematics, Statistics, and Operation Research / Quantitative Techniques to MSc, M.Com and MBA classes at Baluchistan University, Quetta.
• I was also In-charge of Student Affairs of the Department.
Visiting Faculty, Allama Iqbal’ Open University, Islamabad.
As a visiting faculty member I am teaching Mathematical Physics to MSc classes.
Visiting Faculty, Baluchistan University of Information Technology.
As a visiting faculty member I taught Probability & Statistics to Engineering and Computer Science Classes.