Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Background:

Indepth Research Services is an international training and consultancy organization offering technical training services designed for individuals, and organizations working in the agriculture, climate change and environment; disaster management; education; food and nutrition; health; humanitarian relief; logistics and telecommunication; recovery and reconstruction; safety and security; water sanitation and hygiene sectors.

In furtherance of our commitment to deliver relevant high impact training programmes and consultancy services, we wish to recruit an M&E officer to provide coaching and training to M&E clients and to ensure sound application.

Assignment:

The M&E Officer will be a key member of the Training and Research team and will support development of an M&E system that defines standards, approaches, methods, tools and application to allow systematic participatory monitoring and evaluation of our clients’ project achievements, results, changes and impacts.

He/she will play a leading role to support building M&E capacity, and together with the Training and Research team, to implement the M&E system, planning, recommending adjustments and reporting.

Specific tasks:

The M&E Officer will undertake the following tasks:

• Support IRES M&E consultancy work including preparing proposal and responding to M&E related EOI and RFPs.
• Designing, planning and conducting baseline surveys and other studies.
• Developing forms for data collection & analysis, M&E reporting structure.
• Review monitoring reports, analyze them for impact evaluation and to identify the causes of potential bottlenecks in project implementation.
• Collaborate with staff and implementing partners on qualitative monitoring to provide relevant information for ongoing evaluation of project activities, effects and impacts.
• Guide the process for identifying and designing the key indicators.
• Guide the process for identifying the key performance questions and parameters for monitoring project performance and comparing it to targets. Design the format for such performance reports.
• Review the quality of existing social and economic data, the methods of collecting it and the degree to which it will provide good baseline statistics for impact evaluation.
• Prepare the necessary documentation and materials needed for M&E training workshops.
• Development and Design of the approved M&E System.
• Facilitation of international trainings workshops in M&E to our corporate and NGOs.
• Prepare reports including assessment and recommendations.

Requirements for National M&E expert:

• At least a bachelors degree in Monitoring and Evaluation or a related field with professional certification in Monitoring and Evaluation. A Master degree in M&E is preferred.
• Professional certification in project management
• Three years of relevant experience in an active position M&E preferably in an NGO setup

The ideal candidate should also have several years of proven experience in:

• The logical framework approach and other strategic planning approaches;
• M&E methods and approaches including quantitative, qualitative and participatory;
• Planning and implementation of M&E systems;
• Training in M&E development and implementation;
• Training in Project management
• Facilitating learning-oriented analysis sessions of M&E data with multiple stakeholders;
• training M&E including curricula designing, facilitating training workshops etc. for project staff and local stakeholders;
• Information analysis and writing M&E reports.
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis including use of analysis software such as R, STATA and SPSS.

Additional requirements:

• Strong background in M&E, project management;
• Strong experienced with community development and capacity building projects;
• Fluent in verbal and written English and the applications of relevant M&E and project management software;
• Excellent presentation skills;
• Experience in marketing services would be an added advantage but it is not a mandatory requirement.

How to apply:

All candidates who are interested in this assignment should submit a cover letter and an updated CV by August 22, 2014 by email to: Human Resource Officer,
Indepth Research Services ;
Email: jobs@indepthresearch.org