Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist 

Capacity Development to Strengthen Drought Resilience (CDSDR III) Project

­­­­­Contract duration: 01.11.2024

Application deadline: 30.10.2025

Duty station: Addis Ababa

Brief Description of the Project

Our approach: 80% of Ethiopia's population lives in rural areas, of which more than 18,000,000 are (agro-) pastoralists in the lowlands, which account for nearly 60% of Ethiopia's land area. The lowlands include the Afar region in northeastern Ethiopia, as well as Somali and parts of Oromia and South Ethiopia Regional State. Due to population growth and the increasingly frequent occurrence of extreme weather events, this system is increasingly put at risk and the people, and their livestock, have become increasingly vulnerable. Extensive resource use like overgrazing and deforestation causes food insecurity, soil degradation, and erosion. Dry valleys are the result, through which rainwater is quickly directed out of the area without being able to infiltrate into the soil, which intensifies desertification and food insecurity. To address this issue the Dry Valley Rehabilitation and Productive Use (DVRPU) approach was developed. The DVRPU approach is systemic with a series of technical, biological, economic, social, institutional, and managerial measures applied to rehabilitate entire dry valleys for the benefit of the inhabitants and their animals, considering the existing political-administrative and traditional management system.

Responsibilities and Duties

The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist is responsible for supporting the project’s objectives by:

• Ensuring regular planning, monitoring and evaluation, data collection and data analyses within the results-based monitoring and evaluation system of the CDSDR III project;

• Supporting the analysis, aggregation, and consolidation of M&E data and support the preparation of regular progress reports as well as presentations for ad hoc requests of project managers, donors and partner structures

The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist performs the following tasks:

• Support the international M&E specialist to monitor and evaluate results and indicators of the CDSDRIII project

• Support in conducting tracer studies

• Joint planning, implementation, and follow-up of quarterly M&E workshops

• Regular conduction of aerial Photographies of dry valley sites

• Assist the CDSDRIII team, its technical experts and partner organizations to implement the results-based monitoring system, including the collection, analysis and reporting of relevant data.

• Support the monthly and quarterly data collection following the core processes based on existing data collection formats and information gathered from finance and administration sources.

• Support to build up database of existing formats and establish the use of formats, explain existing formats to colleagues and ensure data collection.

• Identify gaps in the data collection system and organize actively missing data;

• Keep regular contact and exchange with partners at regional and woreda level in Somali, Afar, South Ethiopia and Oromia; 

• You perform the tasks assigned to you by your line manager, where required.

Job Requirements

Required qualifications, competences, and experience

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics, Monitoring and Evaluation or development studies

Professional experience

• 8 years of practical field experience working in Monitoring and Evaluation in arid and semi-arid lowlands,

• Proven communication skills at all levels to capture and compile data from different staff and projects.

• Proven experiences in report development

• Experience with pastoral and/ or agro-pastoral communities in arid and semi-arid lowlands 

• Understanding of impacts of environmental degradation and alternative natural resource management approaches. 

• Experience in working with governmental structures, international organisations, NGOs and/or research institutes.

• Practical knowledge on the use of OnStruc application for field work monitoring

Other knowledge, additional competencies

• High level of motivation, proactivity, self-discipline, integrity and accountability;

• Readiness to work in rural circumstances;

• Computer skills in software application MS-Office Very good

• English and Amharic language skills

• Somali/ Afar/ Oromo language skills are an advantage

How to Apply

Application procedure:

Interested and qualified candidates shall submit their motivation letter along with their non-returnable recent CV via hreth@giz.de 

Note: 

Please make sure you mention the vacancy number and position title ‘Applicant full name_Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist #110_2024’ in the subject line of your email application.

Due to large number of applications, we categorise applications with the vacancy numbers.

Applications without vacancy numbers in subject lines might not be categorized in the appropriate folder and could be disqualified.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

We encourage persons with disabilities to apply for the position. In case of equal qualification, persons with disabilities will be given preference.

Applications from qualified women are encouraged.

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