Duties and Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for coordination of all planning, monitoring, evaluation, reporting, knowledge management and evaluation activities of the project

• Identify performance indicators, develops quality assurance strategies, train project team 

• Ensure all project aspects comply with institutional mission, goals and strategies as well as donor requirements

• Ensure that there is a reliable and up-to-date database of information of project work and is responsible for the timely and accurate production of reports at all levels

• Contribute to development of concept notes, and on shelf projects under malaria priority areas in collaboration with project manager and team

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS 

• Responsible for the overall coordination of project planning exercises (strategic, annual, quarterly and detailed implementation plans).

• Ensure that the project M&E plans and log frames align with the organization’s overall theory of change, mission, goals and targets. 

• Establishing project indicators that show specific changes after introduction of certain conditions/interventions. 

• With the project manager, assist project teams to prepare and implement project-specific targets and plans for data collection and monitoring.

• Ensuring compliance i.e. whether a project activity adheres to relevant legal regulations, program standards, donor requirements and organizational policies.

• In collaboration with project units and partners; organize and/or conduct regular monitoring, supportive supervision and internal reviews through preparing and using appropriate checklists based on schedule.

• Analyze data to track project progress against agreed targets and log-frames.

• Consolidate monitoring and evaluation findings, compare against the original project plan and suggest way(s) of correcting deviations to management.

• Developing and ensuring implementation of data collection techniques and tools to develop relevant management information systems.

• Provide technical assistance to the project staff on data gathering, documenting and reporting.

• Make sure project data is timely entered into data base, properly analyze data and generate analytical summaries to be used for decision making, reporting, for uploading on the website and other result outlets.

• Coordinating and actively take part in the development and implementation of evaluation plans for projects. 

• Together with project manager and other staff, conduct research and learning activities at a project level and coordinate expertise around baselines, learning reviews and evaluation related activities.

• Share evaluation results with all partners, project team ensure that lessons from evaluations are incorporated into the development of all new projects.

• Prepare periodic reports for internal and external audiences based on data from project units and monitoring and evaluation processes using standard templates

• Design and implement a system to identify, analyze, document and disseminate lessons learned from project activities. 

• Ensure the communication of learning within the organization, with partners and other stakeholders. 

• Responsible for the presentation, delivery and documentation of success stories, research findings or key learning pieces to key stakeholders and policy makers.

• Train project teams to use data collection tools and techniques appropriately, including ongoing mentoring and support. 

• Assist administration and program teams to create and manage central filing system for all program information

Job Requirements

Qualifications and experience:         

• First degree or graduate degree in M&E related discipline

• At least 5-7 years for the first degree and 3-5 years for the graduate degree of which three in a team management role and with demonstrated results conducting research or monitoring and evaluation, including qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis

• Experience with coordinating research dissemination, including writing evaluation reports and briefs, organizing dissemination events, and presenting findings

• Proven ability to work with diverse and large teams and to foster a positive working environment with local and international stakeholders

Desirable: 

• A qualification in M&E, public health, project management, development studies, social sciences with specific M&E experiences

• Familiarity with malaria interventions, social behavior changes communication and capacity strengthening

• Experience in M&E designing and implementation

How To Apply

Application Procedure: interested and qualified applicants who meet the above-mentioned requirements can apply in five consecutive days from the date of this announcement. Documents required CV, application letter and supporting documents.

Interested applicants can send their application documents in subject line “MEL Officer – Sennay Project” via habtamu@hdama.org