•  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 analyzed, synthesized 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.

Job Requirements

• MSc/BSc in Rural Development, Agriculture, Economics, Development studies or other related fields with three to five years of experience
• Knowledge of Plan policies and procedures, Sphere and the Red Cross/ NGO Code of Conduct
• Knowledge of child rights, emergency nutrition, health and FSL programming
• Good knowledge of field level realities of humanitarian NGOs work;
• Experience of working in pastoral and agro-pastoral context;  
• Knowledge of integrated humanitarian response approach such as FSL, Nutrition, Health, WASH, DRR, CTP, EWS, DRR and DCM;
• Good understanding of the external operating environment including government policies, strategies, guidelines and operating procedures in managing emergencies and disasters in the country Perform multiple, non-technical tasks with a potential need to upgrade skills in order to meet changing job conditions.
• 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.

How to Apply

The closing date for the application in May 09.2021. Qualified candidates should submit the application form found with this link through www.Ethiojobs.netThis position is only open to Ethiopian Nationals, who must be eligible to live and work in Ethiopia. 

More information about Plan International can be found here

References will be taken and background and anti-terrorism checks will be carried out in conformity with Plans Child Protection Policy. Plan operates an equal opportunities policy and actively encourages diversity, welcoming applications from all persons meeting the skills and experience required.

As an international child centered community development organization, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realization of children's rights including their right to protection from violence and abuse. That means we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we as an organization, do everything we can to keep children safe. We must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.