Data Associate, Indonesia MEL-P

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Project Summary:

The USAID/Indonesia Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Project (MEL-P) purpose is to support the implementation of the Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) for Fiscal Year 2021 – 2025 by providing technical, consulting, and advisory services related to monitoring, evaluation, and learning and other relevant short-, medium-, and long-term technical expertise to USAID/Indonesia. The activity will also provide support to USAID initiatives, such as the Indo-Pacific Strategy, and newly enacted Foundations for Evidence Based Policy Making Act. These combined efforts will facilitate and inform program management decisions within the Mission, shape the long-term strategic direction of programs, and enable USAID/Indonesia to comply with USAID’s Evaluation Policy and USAID Automated Directives System 201.

**Please note: Only Indonesian citizens are eligible for this position**

Position Summary:

The Data Associate will support USAID/Indonesia’s data analysis efforts and data quality assessments (DQAs) for FY 2024 by analyzing data, reviewing documentation, conducting interviews, and gathering information on how USAID’s implementing partners collect performance data and whether those procedures meet data quality criteria. This is a six-month contract based in Jakarta with an anticipated start date of May 2024.

Responsibilities:

• Review and tabulate the FY 2021, FY 2022, and FY 2023 indicator data from USAID’s primary data sources, namely the Development Information System (DIS) report and the Mission’s Performance Management Plan (PMP) indicator summary table.
• Document the underlying assumptions and, as relevant, preliminary indicator-level data gaps and questions for the USAID Program Office (PRO). 
• Revise data for pertinent context indicators and update the associated graphics across the four development objectives (DOs), as required.
• Meet with the Senior MEL Expert and other MEL-P staff to discuss the initial findings and confirm the existing data gaps and questions.
• Attend and actively participate in MEL-P’s internal meetings on lessons learned on context indicators, such as data sources and changes, to inform USAID programming.
• Support the Senior MEL Expert in reviewing and updating the data calculation tables and graphics to incorporate the FY 2023 indicator data for the basis of the FY 2021 – 2023 infographic.
• Use MEL-P’s existing materials and lessons learned, prepare presentation/training materials for and support and/or co-facilitate two DQA introductory/orientation sessions with one in-person session for USAID staff and one online session for USAID implementing partners (IPs).
• Work with the MEL-P team to design and develop an inter-rater reliability exercise with online or in-person session(s) for USAID staff to mitigate inconsistent DQA findings and ratings.
• Work with the MEL-P team to provide technical advice and recommendations to PRO and the USAID DQA teams to address any queries and ensure quality and consistency across the DQA teams throughout the five DQA phases.
• Review a set of draft DQA checklist reports and mitigation plans and provide feedback to PRO.
• Participate in debrief session(s) (i.e., After-Action Review) with MEL-P and possibly PRO to discuss trends, challenges, best practices, and capture learning of the FY 2024 Mission-led DQA process and results.