The Feed the Future (FtF) Policy LINK Activity will strengthen the capacity of local actors and institutions to lead and manage the agricultural transformation process and contribute effectively and collectively to improved, broad-based food security policy outcomes.
Specifically, the program aims to strengthen food security policy systems by investing in and reinforcing productive human and social capital and developing strategic partnerships that help bring these innovations and capacity investments to scale to achieve a critical mass of local actors with the ability and opportunity to effect positive policy change through collective action.
Policy LINK’s general approach is grounded in facilitative leadership and collaborative governance, which emphasize engaging stakeholders from civil society and public and private sectors in consensus-oriented decision-making, collaborative problem-solving, and adaptive learning.
FtF Policy LINK Ghana is a five-year USAID-supported Activity with the overall objective of fostering behavior change that strengthens the capacity and ability of Ghanaian stakeholders to participate in a more transparent, inclusive, and evidence-based agriculture and food security policy process that leads to improved food and nutrition outcomes and broad-based economic growth. Specifically, the activity will facilitate the transition towards a policy development paradigm driven by multiple stakeholders.
This approach to policymaking will strengthen the capacities of Ghana’s main agricultural policy system actors and institutions and support them to engage stakeholders traditionally excluded from decision-making, including academia, financial institutions, the judiciary, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and private sector representatives from the national, regional, and local levels.
This approach is underpinned by Policy LINK’s overarching theory of change focused on increasing human and social capital, engaging policy system actors in collaborative processes, and developing mechanisms for collaborative governance and dynamic learning systems and platforms to sustain collective action.
The MEL Officer will support the day-to-day data collection and reporting for the Activity as guided by USAID. The MEL Officer will work with the MEL & CLA Lead and other staff to ensure that clean and complete project data is collected, properly captured, and reported in a timely manner.
S/he will continually reinforce Policy LINK’s agreed-upon core purpose and principles, and ensure all decision-making is rooted in those purposes and principles. S/he will contribute to fostering a learning environment in which personal and team growth is supported, with a shared understanding that the “team” always comes before the “individual.”
The MEL Officer will be responsible for the following:
Specific responsibilities of the MEL Officer at the sub-national and national levels of Policy LINK Ghana will include;
The MEL Officer will report directly to the Accra-based MEL & CLA Lead with a dotted line to the Tamale-based Regional Senior Manager. S/he will coordinate closely with Activity Team Leads overseeing activities.
The MEL Officer will not have any supervisory responsibilities.
Local Ghanaian candidates are highly encouraged to apply for this position.
Additional qualifications:
Education:
Work Experience:
Skills:
Qualified FEMALE candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Please submit applications electronically via this website https://fs23.formsite.com/OLJTgx/nkkg3uevhr/index by 31st March 2023:
Applications will be considered in the order received.
Candidates will be required to answer certain qualifying questions before uploading their CVs and cover letters to the application form for consideration.
Only candidates who are shortlisted for interviews will be contacted. No email enquiries please.
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