INTERNAL/EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (Re-Advertised)
CARE Ethiopia’s mission is to work with the poor women and men, boys and girls, communities and institutions, to have a significant impact on the underlying causes of poverty in Ethiopia.
Date: March 29, 2017
Vacancy No. 073/17
No of positions; 1 (One)
Type of Employment- Regular
Duty base: Hawassa Project office
Dead Line: 10 days from the date of advertisement
Objective: The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist is a technical support position for the Livelihood for Resilience projects. The purpose of the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist position is to design and maintain the M&E system of the Livelihood for Resilience project in CARE-SNNPR. Under the supervision of the project manager and support of LDM Manager of Livelihood for Resilience at CCU, the M&E Specialist will set up the M&E System for the projects and will have ultimate responsibility in maintaining the system, strengthening the system over time and building capacity of project and government staff to utilize the system. This includes collecting, compiling and analyzing relevant data. The LDM Specialist will contribute to document lessons learned as the project evolves and share key lessons within and outside the organization. The M&E specialist provides technical backstopping, organizing trainings in the areas of LDM and knowledge management. The position holder will work closely with other project staffs, CCU and PQL-LDM unit to ensure the cross fertilization of learning among different units, pulling information required from programs relevant to document centrally, organize capacity building trainings to staff, take assignments as a teammate.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
§ Develop specific M&E plan based on the overall Livelihood for Resilience M&E framework; and take the lead for its implementation
§ Develop contextual and specific M&E tools for collection and reporting on FTF and other custom indicator based on project’s PIRS
§ Contribute for designing operational guidelines for collection, compilation and recoding of quantitative and qualitative data
§ Provide technical and operational support to external and internal periodic and ad-hoc assessments , baselines, evaluations, action researches, etc
§ Supports the development of woreda level project DIP preparation broken down by year , quarter and month plan;
§ Ensures that the all value chain activities, Youth employment, IGAs, microfinance , Gender and nutrition , climate change adaptation and other project related activities are implemented according to the technical specification set together with partners and time schedule
§ Lead the project office compliance with project management requirements (including planning, M&E and reporting):
§ Plans and conducts quarterly and annual program review meeting to assess progress, adjust plans, and draw/disseminate lessons learned;
§ Establish and maintain monitoring systems to measure the overall performance, track project performance, field checking and feedback system to project staffs at all levels. Make sure that the system captures both quantitative and qualitative data collection.
§ Plan and coordinate regular field visits and review meetings internally and externally with donor, MFIs and government offices periodically to assess progress performance toward achieving objectives, provide recommendations for improvement as required by project M&E plan.
§ Develop projects visibility strategy according to CARE and donor regulations and requirements
§ Ensure regular and timely submission of project quarterly and annual performance reports to CARE CCU/regional government signatory bodies following the standard template requirement
§ Provide technical assistance to staff and partner in management of livelihood for resilience MIS, proper data collection and record keeping.
§ Build the capacity of all relevant team members to develop and maintain an excellent M&E system, including regular reflection and analysis of program monitoring data and production of evidence-based recommendations and reports.
§ Leads knowledge management related activities of the field office including documentation of knowledge and publication of knowledge products
§ Organizes feedback sessions and other platforms at field office level with partners, beneficiaries and stakeholders (private and public sectors) to ensure responses are provided timely.
§ Works with knowledge management Advisor to promote learning within the project
§ Set up and maintain a common electronic and hard copy system for access to key documents such as M&E tools, tracking and reporting forms, monitoring reports, proposals, donor and government requirements and reports, evaluations and other program information
§ Periodically collect and analysis information to track progress on key project components such as VESA, value chain development, youth employment, Microfinance linkage, women employment and aspiration to graduate
§ Develop organizational as well as programmatic gender tools, guidelines and frame works to ensure that the women empowerment and gender equality work of CARE is well grounded and systematic;
A) Education/Training
BA/BSc in Social Science, Statistics, International Development, Economics, Agricultural Economics, Monitoring & Evaluation or other related field
B) Experience:
· Five years relevant experience in the area of LDM and M&E systems.
· high report writing quality, sensitive to details
· Familiarity with USAID reporting system specially FTFMS and Aidtracker
Competencies
Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, analytical ability, initiating action, interpersonal skills, developing teams, decision making, information monitoring, facilitating change, proactive problem solving, planning, organizing and communicating with impact
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