Ensure the MAF-FLNO funded nutrition, Livelihood and Food security project monitoring and evaluation meet donor standards and complies with donor accountability requirements.
Provide quality guidance to the technical field staffs of the project during planning and implementing the project activities.
Facilitate and lead project progress monitoring and evaluation activities.
Ensure that M&E data from project target districts are timely and with best quality collected analysed, synthesised and availed for both sharing to all stakeholders and for decision making.
Ensure that the Donor and Government reporting is done and submitted on time in accordance with their reporting template and within their reporting schedule.
Support knowledge management and learning by producing specific program information resources.
Produce program performance reports to enable effective decision making be the management team at PA as well as CO.
Support and aware all the relevant program staff about the outcomes and the quality of program through performing quarterly, mid-term and end evaluation.
Proactively seek and promote best practices as part of monitoring, evaluation and program effectiveness practices.
Maintain consistency in monitoring and evaluation standards leading the consistent application of MER and donor compliance in the program cycle management processes.
Identify weakness in monitoring and evaluation practices and develop targeted solution alongside the identification and promotion of high quality evaluation practices.
Work closely with CO and PA based monitoring and evaluation and research team to improve the quality of monitoring and evaluation and provide technical support to CO/PA as needed.
Internal Collaboration:
Collaborate with technical program specialists in the CO and with NO staff as needed o develop the monitoring and evaluation framework.
Ensures donor’s programmatic compliance issues adequately met.
Ensures ECCD principles and strategies are mainstreamed in MER tools and frameworks.
Collaborate with other functions (Finance, Risk management, grant compliant coordinators and Gender) to ensure the program quality standards and processes integrated across functions.
Mainstream Child Protection in the Program Area and observe the Child protection policy and be vigilant to report all the child protection concerns.
Dealing with Problems
The position requires a very high degree of conceptual, analytical and deductive thinking. It requires ability to investigate in to and solve complex the project focuses on.
The position requires an objective, integrated and multidisciplinary approaches to the program.
The post holder requires a clear understanding of policies, procedures and strategic direction of the organization and the ability of conceptualizing the existing interrelationships, organizational working environment and other prevailing conditions.
The post holder must be able to cope up with and address all M&E related problems that the project will face.
Child Protection and Gender Equality
Demonstrate commitment to Plan’s child protection policy through implementing the policy in its entirety, and report any actual or potential risk situations following the reporting procedures, being aware of abuse and risks to children, being vigilant, becoming familiar with the Child Protection Policy.
Raise children’s rights/protection awareness and important of gender equality and respect to diversity within Plan and amongst partners and community members.
Child protection and gender equality policies are understood by the staff and partners.
Ensure equal participation and benefit of boys and girls and children with disabilities in all phases of programme/ project implementation.
Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
Computer literate (MS word, MS excel, MS PP) including various data processing and analysing applications and other packages.
An understanding of child rights and their protection and fulfilment in the emergency context.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; both in English, Amharic & Afan Oromo.