JOB SUMMARY & PURPOSE:
The CARE Kenya’s Girls Empowerment Project aims at effectively empowering marginalized adolescent girls expand life choices through access to quality learning; equip them with knowledge and skills to be engaged citizens in the 21st Century. The project will use a multi sectoral approach to lifelong learning to capitalize on opportunities to learn about the intersection of quality education, life and leadership skills development, adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ARSH), economic empowerment and utilization of Information, Communication and Technological (ICT) to support and enhance learning. The purpose of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) officer position is to provide leadership and support in development and operationalization of an M&E system for the project, working collaboratively with the M&E partner, and ensure that the system aligns with CARE Kenya M&E indicators; that partners’ develop and use M&E plans and processes and develops and supports partners M&E capacity to monitor and demonstrate progress and outcomes of interventions. In addition, the M&E officer will be providing data management support to the project on a day to day basis, to help strengthen data checks and ensure that data is of high quality through collaboratively working with M&E partner, supporting project officers to carry out onsite data verifications and mainly drives the learning agenda (generating evidence, documentation of innovations and their outcomes at all levels) of the project. The M&E Officer will also support the project in ensuring partners are complying with data collection and reporting tools at project level, national and county level.
Tasks and responsibilities
R 1: leadership and Coordination for CARE with M&E partner in the Development and operationalisation of an M&E system and Innovations Knowledge management and Learning system and Capacity Building (60%)
Tasks
1.1. Support the project manager in the development and management of a coordinated partnership with M&E partner (agreements, performance benchmarks, supportive systems, operational engagement)
1.2. Provide leadership support to M&E partner in all aspects of M&E for the project
1.3. Lead the development of the M&E plan and implementation strategy, ensuring that all innovations are well captured and indicators of monitoring progress and measuring outcomes are technically sound and captured.
1.4. Working closely with the Project team, review and support partners to develop M&E plans for the project that are in line with the overall project M&E plan and are simple and easy to adopt at their level.
1.5. Support compliance to the project M&E Plan at Country office level and monitoring compliance of partners and CAREs M&E plans while supporting partners to comply.
1.6. Develop, in collaboration with M&E partner and project steering team, assessments and identification of project beneficiaries, data base and ensure the same is updated monthly and reports generated, as often as per indicators for reporting progress at individual level and contextual level.
1.7. Support monitoring of M&E activities as indicated in their work plan while ensuring that the activities are in line with what is stipulated in their M&E plans and subsequently monitoring their M&E budgets.
1.8. Working with the Project Manager, and M&E partner, review or revise or develop tools for data collection and reporting and their guidelines for use at level while ensuring that compliance to the tools is achieved.
1.9. Monitoring and ensuring that partners are complying with reporting timelines and that reports received are complete for review by the project team.
1.10.Working closely with the project team and M&E partner, provide partners with quarterly progress updates of their projects and ensuring that the actions proposed are incorporated by partners to improve performance measurement.
1.11.Perform regular review of partners’ work plans to ensure that targets are clearly stipulated and that indicator performance areas conform to periods indicated in the approved performance framework.
1.12.Working with the Project team and M&E partner, identify M&E capacity gaps among the partners and develop capacity building plans to address those gaps.
1.13.Working closely with Project team and M&E partner, and the project team to support the documentation of lessons learnt and case studies by Partners.
1.10. Support the Project Manager in planning and facilitating project monitoring and evaluation strengthening activities for the project including partner management and support.
R 2: Providing adequate data management support to the project while ensuring that data is of highest quality and there is evidence of adequate support documentation (30%)
Tasks
2.1 Responsible for updating the project database in CARE, with verified performance results, ensuring partners project performance is up to date and supporting partners to track the same at their level for effective measurement of overall project performance.
2.2 Ensure individual tracking data base is up to date, and that M&E partners supportive activities are timely undertaken to enhance the learning agenda
2.3 Support partners to develop database/data capturing tools at their level for them to keep track of their performance and ensure efficient decision making.
2.4 Closely working with the Girls Empowerment Project team, perform data quality checks/verification to all data received from partners with an aim of ensuring that project data received is reliable and accurate.
2.5 Ensuring partners are complying with the projects reporting guidelines and tools, and supporting them to utilise the same appropriately.
2.6 Working closely with the project officers and supported by the Project Manager, perform quarterly and annual monitoring support at field level and routinely support the Project Manager to carry out data audits/trails.
2.6 Ensure that all project data support documents are appropriately stored for easy of retrieval during verification and other need basis.
R3: Strengthened Collaboration and Networking (5%)
Tasks
3.1 Represent the Girls Empowerment project in core monitoring and evaluation committees, county engagements and related project activities as necessary.
3.2 Represent Girls Empowerment project in decentralised M&E forums, selected M&E capacity building and strengthening forums with a view to keeping the project and partners informed on current initiatives and developments in M&E, and provide staffs updates from these forums.
3.3 Perform any other duty as assigned by the supervisor, related to collaboration and networking.
R4: Strengthen CAREs performance in Girls Education, Economic Empowerment and Sexual Reproductive Health and related innovations Programming and perform other duties as assigned (5%)
Tasks
4.1 Support enhanced management cohesion of cross sectoral and innovation areas of the project at sectoral and Country Office projects and staff, in M&E.
4.2 Strengthen CARE’s Monitoring and Evaluation roles including M&E systems development, reporting, capacity strengthening on quality M&E
4.3 Support CARE’s achievement of strategic interventions as outlined in the strategic plan, project principles and other frameworks
4.4 Undertake any other relevant duties as assigned by supervisor or management that enhance CARE’s mission.
AUTHORITY:
- Spending Authority: N/A
- Supervision: N/A
- Decision Making: N/A
CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS (internal & external):
Internal: Provides technical support on M&E to Project Officers, Grants Officer, and the Project Manager. Receives support from the Project Manager, and Sector Managers.
External: The position liaises primarily with M&E partner and with all project partners on issues of M&E comes into contact with external Girls Education and Empowerment project stakeholders including the MoE, MoH, various national ministries and departments, National youth empowerment projects and funding mechanisms Economic and ICT stakeholders.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Normal working conditions in a city setup. The employee may have to contend with traffic congestion during peak hours. The employee will make frequent field visits covering over 60% of their time, to project partners and locations to carry out M&E and capacity building support; This includes travel to remote areas and therefore has exposure to road and security risks.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Education:
a) A bachelors degree in social science, IT, statistics, economics, health or related field – a masters degree will be an added advantage
b) Training in M&E is required.
c) Training in Gender will be an added advantage
- Experience:
a) Three years of work experience in monitoring and evaluation of health, education and economic empowerment projects
b) Familiarity with performance based funding systems and procedures.
c) Ability to develop and implement monitoring and evaluation plans
d) Excellent data analysis and report writing skills
e) Computer literacy, particularly in the use of MS Access, MS Excel and statistical packages ( SPSS, STATA, EPI INFO etc)
- Competencies:
a) Data and information presentation skills
b) Strong mentorship and partnership skills
c) Analytical capacity
d) Excellent inter-personal, facilitation skills and communication skills
e) Person of high moral character and professional integrity Must expressly be supportive to girls and women’s empowerment
HOW TO APPLY:
If you feel you meet the requirements for this position, send your updated CV with email & telephone contacts of three professional referees and the application letter quoting the Reference number & Titleof the position as the subject to: The Human Resources & Development Manager, CARE International in Kenya, Email: Vacancies@care.or.ke to be received not later than 24thSeptember , 2015. Do not attach certificates/scanned documents. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
CARE is an equal opportunity employer and promotes gender equity. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
CARE International in Kenya does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. (Application, interview, meeting, processing, training or any other fees).
N.B) The interested applicants must indicate their expected remuneration level.
