Internal/External Vacancy Announcement
INTRODUCTION
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Save the Children offers sound employment conditions with opportunities for personal growth and development. If you are interested to work in an organization that is determined to achieve dramatic change for the most vulnerable children, we encourage you to look through the job profile below.
Job Title | Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist(M&E Specialist) |
Code | 0328 |
Programme | GtN |
Place of Work | Addis Ababa |
Monthly Salary in ETB | As per the salary scale of the Organization |
No. of Positions | 1(One) |
ROLE PURPOSE:
The M&E specialist is backstop for providing technical support for the MEL advisor to help him closely work with project staff and partners in the area of project data/information management. He/she Coordinate and interacts with all project staff to assure quality and timeliness of activities at all levels. He/she is responsible to oversee Growth through Nutrition M&E activities such as data collection, database management, supportive supervision, and coordination of review meetings and periodic reporting in all targets. He/she is responsible to keep a reliable and quality database at all levels and write quality monthly, quarterly/ biannual and annual project reports.
Reports to: MEL advisor
Second supervisor:
Staff directly reporting to this post: No
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Coordination:
· Closely work with country office project and regional project staff and government counterparts to faciliate recording, reporting and data utilization as appropraite
· In collaboration M&E team, support and take initiatives in supporting regional M&E team and gov counter parts in use of data for decision making, simple analysis techniques using project established soft wares / others soft wares
· Moniotor and faciliatate regular upadate of database for regular reporting and data utilization
· Facilitate timely and regular programme monitoring in collaboration with project M&E team
· Coordinate/support documentations of trainings, review meetings, preparation of case studies, and make sure that these Growth through Nutrition activities are well documented and trackable
· Coordinate, prepare, and consolidate all reporting (monthly, quarterly/biannual and annual) activities of the project in collaboration with M&E team, advisors and others as needed,
Project Planning:
· Support and ensure project staff prepare annual Growth through Nutrition work plan and timely submit for approval;
· Support regional project staff to ensure that Growth through Nutrition work plan is harmonized with annual regional / woreda health sector plan
Project Implementation:
· Monitor timely implementation overall Growth through Nutrition work plans and budget utilization
· Ensure timely implementation and effectiveness of Growth through Nutrition related review meetings at different levels
· Ensure that the quality of Growth through Nutrition supported M&E trainings, review meetings and supportive supervisions are maintained;
· Provide monitoring and evaluation training to relevant project staff and government staff engaged in data management and utilization.
· Provides technical support to regional team in project activity monitoring, data organization and utilization and report writing
Monitoring and Supervision:
· Timely review project reports and provide constructive feedbacks
· Identify and inform new developments in Growth through Nutrition monitoring and evaluation to project staff
· Undertake regular visits to the field and health facilities to support monitoring processes, spot check data collection, data quality, analysis, reporting on programme progress
· Actively participate project review meetings to assess progress;
· Keep on track the performance of the region’s activities according to the regional plan and inform the regional coordinator if there are deivaiations from the plan
· Support and ensure that project data are timely collected, enterd to databsed and used for Semi-annual and annual reporting
Documentation and reporting:
· Submit timely monitoring reports, and review meeting proceedings to MEL advisor for documentation;
· Participate in monthly / biweekly CO M&E meeting and prepares meeting minutes with action points for the follow up and documentation
· Performs other related tasks as required.
QUALIFICATION AND EXPIRENCE