Trending Jobs: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer at World Relief

Monday, 11 November 2019

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Oversight of M&E Function:

Oversees all aspects of in country M&E function with input from SCOPE Project M&E Technical Advisor
Facilitates ongoing reflection meetings to promote “Pause & Reflect” and learn from monitoring and evaluation data
Presents data to internal and external stakeholders to share lessons learned
Participate in quarterly meetings with global project team to assess and learn from global trends

M&E strategy and tools design and implementation:

Oversight of quality and timeliness:

Relationships with local stakeholders:

Provide support to performance evaluation process in collaboration with USAID Mission, global leadership team, and the external evaluation team
Work with global leadership team and external consultant to ensure effective evaluation
Facilitate joint monitoring with MOH and/or USAID Mission
Solicit and incorporate feedback from stakeholders on project progress according to monitoring and evaluation data
Prepare and present findings at learning summits and conferences

Support capacity building for project staff:

Train and supervise enumerators and staff in data collection
Train key staff in M&E plan, system, and data collection methodology
Work with project staff to promote data visualization and data-driven decisions at the community level
Collaborate with project manager and staff to ensure data informs project management and decision-making.

Requirements

Education and Experience:

Bachelors or Master’s degree in statistics, demographics, public policy, international development, public health, or a related field. Master’s degree or Bachelor plus an advanced certificate in M&E or statistics preferred.
Proven success in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages.
Minimum of (3) years of professional experience in a senior M&E position responsible for implementing M&E activities of an international development project. Experience with USAID or another publicly funded project preferred.
Experience in strategic planning and performance measurement, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and/performance monitoring plans and tools.
Knowledge and experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis
Experience in planning and managing surveys.
Experience developing and refining data collection tools, including using Open Data Kit for mobile data collection
Experience with data quality assessments and oversight.
Experience managing and providing ongoing training to field staff on M&E.
Experience liaising with external stakeholders
Experience in working with international organizations and a good knowledge of NGOs and other local development agencies will be considered an asset.

Core competencies:

Strong commitment to World Relief’s Values
Excellent written and oral English skills required.
Good team working skills
Effective networking skills
Experience and capacity in institutionalizing M&E systems and standards.
Strong experience with data collection, management, analysis and report production.
Considerable work experience and capacity to collaborate with partners at multiple levels,
Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite, including knowledge of common statistical software packages, health information technologies and software applications, relational database systems and web technologies.
Spoken and strong writing skills to prepare reports, promotional materials and oral presentation
Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment with both technical and non-technical staff.
Excellent inter-personal and inter-cultural skills.
Excellent training and M&E capacity building skills.
Ability to adhere to the rules and regulation of WR.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations
The ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-15 pounds.
Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application information.
The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.

Work Environment

General office setting, 40% field experience, including too fragile environments
Great lengths of time working on the computer, reading from computer screen, entering information, standing at copier or fax machine, and some time on the phone or skype meetings may be required.
Year-end archiving activities involve repeated lifting and bending.
Physical, emotional and intellectual demands
Equipment used: Employee computer (desktop or laptop), printer, and copier.
All of the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions subject to reasonable accommodation. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Individuals may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation. This position description is not all-inclusive and is always under review.

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