The Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Associations (CCRDA), which was founded in May 1973, is a national umbrella organization of more than 469 national and international organizations operating in Ethiopia. CCRDA member organizations are engaged in various development activities, including agriculture and food security, rural development, health, water and sanitation, urban development, environmental protection, gender mainstreaming, humanitarian responses, etc.

CCRDA envisions seeing a prosperous Ethiopia with vibrant civil society organizations operating in an environment of assured social justice. CCRDA’s mission is facilitating an enabling environment for its members and enhances their effectiveness, meaningful, and coordinated contribution to national development endeavors. To fulfill its mission, every five years CCRDA has been undertaking strategic revision and defined its strategic objectives by assessing both the internal and external environment.

The Consortium of Christian Relief & Development Association (CCRDA) is looking for a highly motivated professional to fill the following post.

CCRDA seeks a highly motivated and organized individual to join our organization as Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer. The incumbent is responsible for putting and enforcing of M & E system in the organization. Provides M & E related technical support to staff. prepares timely reports and analyzes them for informed decision on the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization in terms of accomplishing the plan. She/he will oversee the monitoring, evaluation, analytics, and report the performance of the organization. She/he will lead activity, output, and outcome efforts to strengthen monitoring and evaluation and performance reporting.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Job Responsibility #1: Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

• Introduces participatory planning, monitoring, and evaluation system in the organization.

• Develops appropriate monitoring and evaluation tools.

• Familiarizes the system and tools applicable on the day-to-day activities of the organization.

• Provides Plan, M & E related technical support to staff.

• Assists and leading the monitoring system of the organization with beneficiaries /participants.

• Participate and provide inputs for the development of Comprehensive Monitoring Evaluation plan.

• Assists CCRDA staff in the overall M&E and reporting system.

• Assists project staff in reviewing and revising project M&E plan and indicators as required.

• Provides reporting feedback to CCRDA project staff and PIPs.

• Assists, preparing and submitting government reports.

• Assists the project staff of CCRDA and Implementing partner in understanding activity/output/outcome project level data.

• Organizes participatory monitoring events along with the facilitators and partners and communities.

• Organize project performance regular (bi-annual and annual) review meetings.

• Collects and provides information and technical support in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual reports.

• Prepare & Participates in the formulation and revision of different projects and plans.

• Provides timely feedback on the progress of planned activities for informed decision.

• Presents monitoring and evaluation results in a way fostering learning and accountability.

• Gives training in his/her area of specialization to the staff and employees of member organizations.

Job Responsibility #2: Program Progress Tracking

• Identifies indictors which are reliable for data quality assessments.

• Ensures all project and partner staff standardize and latest versions of data collection and reporting forms.

• Analyzes plan versus achievements of the project and identify justifications for under achievements or over achievements.

• Ensures cross cutting issues such as gender, disability and age are effectively addressed/ mainstreamed in all project implementations as part of ensuring accountability.

Job responsibility #3: Data Management

• Supports CCRDA team in the development and design of M& E tools.

• Manages routine data, including data cleaning and entry to ensure completeness and quality.

• Ensure all M&E system that will be used for direct monitoring are functional with correct programming and are available for use.

• Reports any errors identified during data review to appropriate team members and assists in resolving issues.

• Ensures all the data of the organization is collected, cleaned, stored, reported, and documented properly.

Job Responsibility #4: Capacity Building

• Assists PIPs in organizing M&E related capacity building workshops/trainings to stakeholders and indirect participants of the project.

• Compiles and share project related data.

• Identifies and fills gaps in the data collection system of the organization.

Job Responsibility #5: Knowledge Management

• Conducts learning assessments and produces learning briefs and other knowledge management products.

• Assists and produces success stories, rolling profiles, and most significant change stories.

• Organizes and participates in learning events and experience sharing.

Job Title: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Report to: Executive Director

Number of Post: One

Place of work: Addis Ababa CCRDA office Complex

Job Requirement:

QUALIFICATION & REQUIREMENT:

Education

• MA, MSc or BA, BSc in statistics, demographics, economics, public health or related field. Advanced certificate in M&E, statistics, or economics preferred.

Experience

• At least six plus years of relevant work experience in Monitoring and Evaluation.

• NGO experience is advantageous.

Additional Requirements for the post

• Strong knowledge and skills in basic Microsoft packages (Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook etc.)

• Experience in designing tools and strategies for data collection, analysis and production of reports (ODK, Kobo Toolbox and Power BI);

• Expertise in analyzing data using statistical software (Excel, SPSS, STATA and R software)

• Planning, time management, teamwork, and proven presentation skills

• Ability to multitask.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Ability to respond positively to critical feedback and different points of view.

Requirement Skill

Teamwork

Communication

Leadership

How To Apply

Interested and qualified applicants are required to send their application letter and credentials through email hr@ccrdaeth.org within seven days after the date of vacancy announcement.

Further information:

CCRDA value diversity and aspires to reflect it in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, religion, or belief.

CCRDA is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment for every person connected to the work we do; and to preventing any type of unwanted behavior including sexual harassment and exploitation, abuse, and financial misconduct. Any candidate offered a job with CCRDA is expected to share and demonstrate our values and adhere to CCRDA’s Safeguarding policy and sign CCRDA’s Code of Conduct.

Address: Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Association (CCRDA), Akaki Kality Sub City, Tel 0114390322, P.O. Box 5674, Debreziet road, adjacent to the Kality Ring Road round about, in front of Drivers and Mechanics Training Center.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Female Applicants Are Highly Encouraged to Apply.