Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist(Re-Advertised)

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.

 JOB SUMMARY:

The M&E Specialist based at Field Office level is a technical support position for one particular project, in this case the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Biruh Tesfa project. Under the supervision of the Emergency Response Manager and Learning, Design and Measurement (LDM) Manager at Head Office level, s/he is responsible to organize and coordinate the collection, compilation, and consolidation of data and to manage the project’s M&E needs at the field level. S/he also establishes and manages data management systems and generation of data for reporting and informed decision-making by CARE’s Emergency Response Manager and REST’s Project Manager/Team Leader. S/he works closely with REST’s technical and M&E teams on a day-to-day basis to implement M&E tasks, including post-distribution monitoring assessments of project activities.

This position is technical and within the data hierarchy focuses on activity and output data at field office level.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS: 

 Strategic monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems design and management

• Works with REST’s technical and M&E teams to design, develop, and update monitoring and evaluation tools and systems at field office level
• Works with the REST’s technical team to prepare detailed implementation plans including monitoring and evaluation plans
• Supports the implementation of the MEL strategy in the field office and ensures that partner staff understand the strategy and donor requirements
• Responds to data and project information requirements from Emergency Response Manager, LDM Manager, Chief of Party, and Impact Measurement Advisor in CARE’s Program Quality and Learning (PQL) unit
• Participates in project design, diagnostic studies, evaluations, and surveys
• Organizes periodic field office level review, reflective practice, evaluation and progress monitoring by involving communities where relevant
• Supports field office/partner staff and management in ensuring compliance to CARE’s program principles, LDM/project standards, and donor requirements
• Works closely with field-based teams to ensure quality in activity design and implementation

  Data collection, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting

• Works with REST’s M&E team to maintain the MEL systems, compiling and analyzing routine project data
• Manages/supports field data collection processes for M&E
• Designs and leads post-distribution monitoring activities
• Conducts periodic data quality assessment at field level
• Collects case studies and success stories and shares with internal and external audiences
• Ensures regular and timely reporting from project staff by monitoring receipt of monthly activity progress statements and quarterly activity progress reports
• Supports the REST Project Manager and M&E team in drafting project reports
• Conducts quality control tests on all incoming data

 Training and capacity building

• Liaises with other LDM staff in assessing, planning, organizing LDM related capacity building workshops/trainings to staff and woreda/implementing partners
• In collaboration with PQL and other LDM staff, develops processes for assessing and planning capacity building of project staffs, partners and government staff in M&E
• Compiles and shares project related data among field office staff
• Coaches and mentors frontline staff on how to handle project database, if applicable

 Other duties

• Perform other duties as assigned by the Emergency Response Manager, Chief of Party, or LDM Manager
• The duties and responsibilities described above are subject to change, depending on CARE Ethiopia funding or programming.

GENDER EQUALITY AND PSHEA

• Contribute to an environment within CARE's workplaces, programming, and communities where CARE works that is free from sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse. 
• Understanding and demonstrated commitment to the importance of gender, youth and social inclusion issues.
• Demonstrated commitment to principles of Gender Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and PSEAH (safeguarding), as evidenced in previous positions / programming.

Job Requirements

 EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

• Bachelor degree in Social Science, Statistics or other related field
• Local Language is mandatory 

Desired:

• Knowledge of statistical software

 EXPERIENCE

Required:

• 3 – 5 years of related job experience

 Desired:

• NGO experience
• Experience with M&E for humanitarian/emergency projects

 TECHNICAL SKILLS

Required:

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail
• Strong analytical skills
• Computer skills, particularly Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point
• Good oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality, participatory approach and sustainability
• Proficiency in English, both verbal and written
• Fluency in local languages

Desired:

• Experience using programming and statistical software (such as SPSS) to compile data and information for various systems, and knowledge of basic PME and research tools
• Exposure in developing and/or maintaining database using like MS Access, etc.

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 impacts

CARE Ethiopia is committed to preventing all unwanted behavior at work. This includes sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to share this commitment by understanding and working within the CARE Safeguarding Policy and related framework. CARE Ethiopia has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives or partners.

CARE Ethiopia reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer.

By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms that s/he has no objection to CARE Ethiopia requesting the information specified above. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks.

How to Apply

If you are interested to be part of our dynamic team, exciting work environment and contribute to CARE Ethiopia’s mission and vision, please send your CV (not more than 3 pages) and cover letter (not more than one page) through/to directly ethiojobs.net.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Passionate and dedicated candidates who meet the requirement are strongly encouraged to apply, especially women!

CARE seeks to improve the lives of the most marginalized, particularly women and girls. Our diversity is our strength. We encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.