The M&E Officer will be ensuring that suitable monitoring and evaluation systems are in place, implemented as intended, and reporting in a comprehensive and timely manner to facilitate program coordinators and managers deliver programs that achieve the desired outcomes/impacts. The M&E Officer will support learning/monitoring and evaluation activities across all programme area of the country office. This will include process and tools development, data collection and analysis, reporting and learning/reflection processes, and evaluation. The post holder will assist programme staff in the use, adaption and reporting from tools and processes and will be active in identifying learning opportunities from the country office and partners’ work that demonstrate impact, outcomes, and important learning opportunities.

Summary

He/she will work in accordance with the Make Way (SRH Programme) proposal including a Theory of Change and Results Framework, and international best practices. Moreover, he/she is responsible to support the M and E system of the country office by allocating 30% of his/her time.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and supervise project database development, analysis, and interpretations
• Foster close collaboration between different sector projects including monitoring stakeholders
• Advise & support program managers, coordinators as well as consultants concerning output & impact survey (Baseline, midline, & final evaluations as well as output survey) for country office
• Builds the capacity of VSO staff, volunteers, and partner of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on participatory planning, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (PMEL) system.
• Provides Participatory PMEL-related technical support to staff, volunteers, and partner CSOs.
• Contributes to the development, contextualization, and yearly revision of the PMEL in-country plans of the Make Way programme with guidance from the consortium.
• Contributes to the setup and contextualization of an appropriate PMEL system.
• Conduct regular field monitoring for technical support to partnering Civil Society Organizations.
• Provides timely feedback on the progress of planned activities for informed decision-making.
• Communicates information obtained through PMEL activities to VSO program staff, volunteers, the other partners in the consortium, partnering CSOs and external stakeholders, to enable informed decision making.
• Prepares M&E input to project reports.
• Regularly reviews data collection processes, perform data quality assessments, and make adjustments as needed.

Desired Skills and Experience

Knowledge/qualifications

• BA degree in relevant social science fields.
• Excellent understanding of research, monitoring and evaluation approaches and methodologies (e.g., MILE).
• Practical experience in developing and applying M&E tools.
• Activity monitoring and interpretation skills
• Sufficient experience in database management
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel is a must
• Knowledge of statistical software such as STATA, SPSS, ODK is an asset
• Ability in compiling result-based progress report

Experience:

• At least 5 years’ experience of working in project management as M and E officer.
• Skilled in the use and management of qualitative and quantitative data collection, participatory methodologies, analysis, and reporting.
• Excellent communication (verbal and writing) skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to effectively and efficiently perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities.
• Experience and awareness of commitment to gender & social inclusion in research, monitoring and evaluation processes.
• Experience of working in advocacy programmes, preferably in adolescent and youth health or SRH.
• Experienced working in emergency response, development, and refuge programs/projects.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively convene, coordinate and communicate with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Experience working with limited resources within a challenging environment.
• Able to work well with a variety of individuals in a challenging cross-cultural setting.
• Understanding of development issues and the NGO sector.
• Good understanding of capacity building and training and building of effective and efficient teams.

People with a lived experience of marginalization based on their identities (gender, race, ability, religion, ethnicity, etc.) are encouraged to apply