The Amhara National Regional State Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Fund for People in Conflict Affected Area (ARRF):

Background

Amhara region has seen unprecedented thread of political, socioeconomic, and natural events since 2018. The historic political transition has been accompanied by several violence, COVID-19, locust swarm, and the recent political conflict in the Northern Ethiopia. These incidents are marked by loss of so many lives, large scale displacement, psychological distress, weakened economy and the reign of insecurity. The consequence of the recent conflict, however, has devastated the region with overwhelming destruction of health, education, water, roads, power, telecommunication, tourism, investment, industrial and agricultural facilities. The region has also absorbed influx of IDPs and experienced intense destabilization of livelihoods in and nearby the conflict affected areas. Thus, the situation is feared to throw the already struggling regional economy into deep crises and its people into extreme poverty.

The mitigation of this looming threat urgently needs the reconstruction of basic private and public infrastructures and the rehabilitation and restoration of normal livelihood schemes. In view of that, the regional government has recently adopted a regulation that provides for the establishment of a rehabilitation and reconstruction fund office to lead the rehabilitation and reconstruction process. The office is mandated to carry out various activities as specified hereinunder with a view to realize the reconstruction, rehabilitation, and recovery of conflict affected areas.

Salaries for all the vacancies listed below are funded by the regional government development partners including UNDP, World Bank and BigWin Philanthropy.

The ARRF M&E expert will be responsible for designing and implementing the M&E activities of the Fund office; assisting the ARRF Director in preparing Quarterly/Annual reports on fund office progress; monitoring the fund office activities on a regular basis; developing and maintaining the management systems of the Fund office; and collecting & analyzing different data in relation to the fund office activities. The M&E expert works in close collaboration with the fund office developers and operation team, government officials, private sector, non-government and civil society organizations, beneficiaries, and targeted community.

Task Description

• The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will have the following duties and responsibilities:
• Develop and strengthen monitoring, inspection, and evaluation procedures
• Monitor all fund office activities, expenditures, and progress towards achieving the fund office output.
• Recommend further improvement of the logical framework.
• Develop monitoring and impact indicator for the fund office success, during the fund office development and implementation planning
• Monitor and evaluate overall progress on achievement of results.
• Impact communication with different international and local partners
• Monitor the sustainability and impact of the fund office's results.
• Provide feedback to the Fund office Director on fund office strategies and activities.
• Suggest strategies to the Fund office Management for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the fund office by identifying bottlenecks in completing fund office activities and developing plans to minimize or eliminate such bottlenecks.
• Report monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual progress on all fund office activities to the ARRF Director.
• Conduct capacity assessment on existing monitoring and evaluation system develop indicators and a monitoring strategy for the fund office.
• Provide inputs, information, and statistics for quarterly, annual and other reports to Fund office Management Team and clients.
• Participate in annual fund office reviews and planning workshops and assist the Fund office Director in preparing relevant reports.
• Support monitoring and evaluation of the effects and impact of the fund office.
• Assist in coordinating across the available components of the Fund office to ensure effective implementation of M&E.

Competencies

• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of the Fund Office
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race and political sensitivity and adaptability
• Organizes and accurately completes multiple tasks by establishing priorities while taking into consideration special assignments, frequent interruptions, deadlines, available resources, and multiple reporting relationships
• Plans, coordinates, and organizes workload while remaining aware of changing Priorities and competing deadlines
• Establishes, builds, and maintains effective working relationships with staff and clients to facilitate the provision of support
• In-depth knowledge on M&E and development issues
• Excellent knowledge of monitoring and the application of methodology: good understanding of capacity assessment methodologies; excellent ability to identify significant capacity building opportunities.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral): Sensitivity to and responsiveness to all partners, Respectful and helpful relations with donors and fund office staff.
• Ability to lead implementation of new systems (business side), and affect staff behavioral/ attitudinal change
• Strategic and analytical thinking, Results orientation/Commitment to excellence, Appropriate and transparent decision making. 

Job Requirements

Required skills and experience:

• University Degree preferably in Business Administration, Economics, or related field.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience in the design and implementation of M&E in development fund offices implemented by national/international NGOs/UN bodies/ Government.
• Experience in designing tools and strategies for data collection, analysis and production of reports.
• Previous exposure to impact evaluation procedures
• Proven ICT skills, especially in the development of M&E models using Microsoft office tools and other software’s.
• Expertise in analyzing data using statistical software.
• Strong training & facilitation skills.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in written and spoken Amharic and English

How to Apply

The Position is 1 year contract base, which has the possibility of renewal. Please send your cover letter and resume on arrfjobs@gmail.com, email address within 10 days since this post released.

Please contact the Amhara Region President Bureau for further detail: +251583207433

Note: Use "Monitoring and Evaluation Expert" as the subject line of your email !