Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 28 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Purpose
This position will help the PMER team develop and implement appropriate monitoring and evaluation processes and systems to support project management, impact assessment and learning. Providing technical support to Heads of Unit, Country and Cluster offices, the M & E Senior Officer will ensure data collection, analysis and dissemination of monitoring and evaluation results.

Job Duties and Responsibilities
Monitoring
• Ensure that monitoring plans are in place for all appeals and plans
• Develop and maintain monitoring schedules for all programmes and projects
• Provide project management support by facilitating the use of regular monitoring reports for analysis and decision making.
• Aggregate and evaluate monitoring results and feedback across the region and technical domains to enable effective program and project management and organizational learning
• Provide constant communication and support to ensure Country and Cluster offices are aware of their monitoring and evaluation obligations.

Evaluation
• Advise sector leads, country and cluster leads on the utility and relevance of formative and summative evaluation designs and provide advice to ensure rigor in methodology and conclusions.
• Draw on various evaluation designs such as Mixed Methods, Rapid Appraisal, Case Study, Interrupted time series and longitudinal, participatory, pattern analysis and Cross-sectional designs to advise colleagues.
• Identify opportunities for participatory evaluation and integration with Community Engagement and Accountability to ensure evaluations consider community input
• Use qualitative data when applicable and advise on qualitative data collection methods and good practices (including interview skills, focus group facilitation, and survey design and response categories).
• Advise on the utility of various types of data collection and analysis tools using computer software and IT. (e.g. STATA, R, SPSS, Survey Monkey, Computer assisted Content Analysis)
• Advise on sampling techniques (such as simple random sampling, stratified, and purposive) and their applications and relevance for a selected evaluation or methodology.
• Provide quality control during the review and comment phase throughout an evaluation process
• Lead negotiations with external partner and lead author on evaluations where necessary.
• Participate in relevant internal and external networks to stay current on trends and technology related to monitoring; propose new tools for continuous improvement and learning.
• Ensures best practices are captured and disseminated; propose and lead the production of large-scale evaluation material.
• Aggregate and evaluate monitoring results and feedback across the region and technical domains to enable effective program and project management and organizational learning.

M&E System
• Provide technical leadership to ensure monitoring systems include SMART indicators that demonstrate impact or progress, reliable data collection methods and analysis of program and project results.
• Provide technical support during program and project design phase to ensure indicators are well aligned with regional and global results-matrices
• Help design and maintain indicator and qualitative data platforms, such as Excel, Survey Monkey, Google Analytics; develop and maintain survey instruments for learning activities and analytics
• Identifies standard sources of bias that effect data validity using different methods and distinguish between standard types of statistics and types of quantitative data used to present and analyse evaluation findings, including frequency distributions, cross tabulation, significance tests, and variance analysis.

Job Duties and Responsibilities (continued)
Data management
• Provide technical advice/support on the suitable data management system for the organization
• Ensure ethical standards regrading data protection is observed e.g. cloud storage
• Draw inference from the project data and provide analysis that can support programming and throw more light on effects of the intervention

Technical Support/Capacity Building
• Provide training/Technical support on monitoring and evaluation for IFRC and National Society staff as requested.
• Provide tools, tips and guides to help budget holders and National Societies design monitoring and evaluation plans and studies; lead training of staff and NS on monitoring and evaluation.
• Stay current on trends concerning monitoring and evaluation and advise the region on adaption and adoption of new tools and technology.
• Support the sharing of findings and lessons learned to improve overall organizational learning.
• Provide input to the development of global quality standards and tools in the areas monitoring and evaluation

Education
• University degree, or equivalent, in relevant discipline (International Relations, Humanitarian Affairs, Statistics etc.). Required
• Relevant post-graduate degree or MBA, Statistics (or equivalent). Required
• Relevant professional training or relevant experience in monitoring or evaluation. Required

Experience
• Minimum of 3 years work experience in corporate reporting and planning. Required
• Minimum of 3 years work experience in an international setting. Preferred
• Experience working in the developing countries. Preferred
• Experience working in the Africa Region. Preferred
• People Management experience. Preferred
• Experience developing, communicating, and implementing business plans. Required
• Knowledge, Skills and Languages
• Demonstrated capacity for analytical and strategic thinking. Required
• Superior writing and editing skills. Required
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills. Required
• Excellent relationship building skills; ability to build and strengthen internal networks. Required
• Expertise in planning processes. Required
• Conducting and/or supervising needs assessments and surveys, data analysis. Preferred


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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