Position- Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor
Location- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Length of Employment- Open
Salary & benefits- Highly attractive and negotiable
Posting Date- April 27, 2016
Closing Date- May 08, 2016
Vacancy Code- 01/410
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. The IRC has been working in Ethiopia for over 15 years implementing direct programming in the areas of WASH, education, livelihoods, reproductive health, gender-based violence, and child and youth protection and development. Today, we provide services to approximately 405,200 refugees in 20 camps and more than one million vulnerable Ethiopians in seven regions
Job Overview/Summary
The IRC is seeking a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor for the five-year, $24 million USAID-funded TRANSFORM: WASH activity. This project will encompass a set of innovative and strategic interventions targeting actions at different scales, with an overall goal of reducing under-five mortality, through increased use of WASH products and services to be achieved via the four interrelated objectives: 1) Increased WASH governance and management capacity at the sub-national level; 2) Increased demand for low-cost quality WASH products and services, with a focus on sanitation; 3) Increased supply for low-cost quality WASH products and services, with a focus on sanitation; 4) Increased knowledge base to bring WASH innovations to scale.
The M&E Advisor will report to the Chief of Party and will be responsible for overseeing the design and implementation of research, monitoring, and evaluation of the program in accordance with USAID regulations, IRC policies, and international standards for programming and research. The M&E Advisor will provide technical and field oversight of all M&E activities and data analysis, setting up an efficient program monitoring system, and overseeing any impact evaluations. The M&E Advisor will provide direct technical supervision to national M&E staff. This Advisor will also play a critical role in strengthening the skills of national staff to monitor program implementation as well as manage qualitative and quantitative data collection effectively.
This position is contingent on the IRC being awarded funding and is anticipated to begin in September 2016.
Experience/Qualifications:
Ethiopian local government context
Required Skills:
· Significant experience in research design for field-based impact evaluations, including methodology, data collection, analysis, and ethics. Experience in WASH data collection and research preferred.
· Strong data management skills and familiarity with Excel, SPSS, Stata or other statistical analysis software required.
· Previous experience working on WASH or similar projects.
· Demonstrated experience in capacity building and mentoring.