Senior Management Executive –
Monitoring, Evaluation & Research

Job Description:

• Contribute to the development of a comprehensive overall monitoring and evaluation framework, toolkits including performance indicators and benchmarks to ensure transparency and accountability
• Put systems and mechanisms in place for collecting data to monitor the development of defined indicators under the comprehensive reporting framework; Integrate periodic evaluations as an integral part of the M&E system
• Strengthen the M&E systems and processes to assure achievement and progress towards organizational objectives and outcomes
• Develop a comprehensive reporting framework with provisions for rigorous impact assessment
• Analyze bi-annual and annual reports and produce a synthetic and analytical progress report to guide management decision-making
• Support the Manager and General Manager to identify partnerships that further the learning agenda including partnerships for M&E and quality improvements
• Ensure that the organization delivers on all internal and external ME requirements in a timely manner and with high quality information
• Ensure that all programs are designed and implemented in accordance with organizational and international standards
• Support staff across organization as well as implementing partners and primary stakeholders on undertaking strong and participatory monitoring across project life cycle
• Develop and implement M&E related capacity building plans for Partner Organizations
• Contribute to improvements in existing policies and procedures to enhance effective accountability mechanisms
• Ensure that all staff at all levels, including senior management fully understands and promotes accountability in general.
• Undertake monitoring visits regularly to physically monitor implementation of the program and prepare reports with action points
• Regularly share M&E findings with other members of MER unit, Operations, partners and other stakeholders
• Ensure that data collection methodologies used at field level are standardized, enabling the specific vulnerabilities of different target groups to be captured and analyzed
• Ensure that organization’s internal and external reporting requirements are met with timely, relevant, triangulated and well analyzed data
• Ensure that all monitoring reports meet the organization’s quality criteria and promote the integration of recommendations and lessons learnt in project planning and future programming.

Relevant Experience:

• At least 16 years of education or Masters in Social Sciences and relevant disciplines / Project Management/Masters in Business Administration / Masters in Public Administration.
• Experience in Project Management and Budgeting Skills for the tasks assigned to him/her.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience of working with a development organization
• Demonstrated ability of implementing/coordinating M&E systems for a development organization
• Experience of collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data
• Knowledge of logical framework design.
• Experience in Budgeting for the tasks assigned to him/her.
• Team Working Skills to work in a team oriented working environment.
• Operational understanding along with good problem-solving skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and relationship management skills.
• Written communication skills and presentation skills with proficiency in MS Office Suite.
• Adaptability Skills in order to work with different units.
• Time management skills and the ability to multi-task.