Monitoring and Evaluation Manager is reportable to Advisory Partner, Grant Thornton Ethiopia.

Job Location: Grant Thornton Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop M&E framework for projects and programs.
• Manage monitoring and evaluating (M&E related) initiatives, programs and projects, both new and established, providing accountability and ensuring efficiency and success from start to finish.
• Formulate and implement key performance indicators (KPI) and deliverables for both.
• Lead new and established projects and monitor them throughout the duration of the projects.
• Plan, design and develop appropriate evaluation frameworks, indicators and data collection methods consistent with project needs, national and international standards, and needs.
• Assist in writing EoIs, RFPs, and proposals specific to M&E.
• Lead project management team(s) and manage project inputs.
• Plan, design and develop suitable M&E tools for the organization, programs, and projects.
• Plan, design and develop organization’s Management Information System (MIS) for data collection, processing, reporting and disseminating lessons learned.
• Manage monitoring and evaluation data collection activities, including logistics of form distribution and collection.
• Engage IT personnel to establish a knowledge repository database for organization and establish an enabling environment for learning and growth.
• Manage M&E database setup and management, data processing including data transfer, data entry, data verification, and data cleaning.
• Manage and Conduct qualitative and quantitative data analyses.
• Prepare planning, research, monitoring, evaluation and learning report for organization, projects, and programs.
• Document the lessons learned and best practices of the different programs and projects.
• Organize planning, presentation and dissemination seminar/workshops
• Develop a consulting team with Data Supervisor, Data Entry Clerk, M&E associates and IT staff.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Master’s Degree in social or behavioral sciences or equivalent with some formal training.
• Program evaluation or Masters in Statistics with training and practical experience in Data Management tools.

• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience, including 3 years of international experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with evaluation or research design, M&E frameworks, data collection and analysis in a consultancy firm.

• Ability to facilitate communication between professionals with a variety of cultural backgrounds.

• Strong organizational and computer skills including MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and RDBMS.

• Knowledge of statistical analysis, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.

• Demonstrated ability to identify, modify, and apply research methods to the programmatic environment.

• Knowledge and usage experience of statistical software packages such as Atlas, STATA, and SPSS, etc.

• Extraordinary reading habits and scanning, skimming and extracting summary of reports, articles and technical documents.