BRCiS M&E Manager - Kenya

BRCiS M&E Manager – Kenya Norwegian Refugee Council

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.
The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

BRCiS and SNS two consortia gather seven international NGOs expert in their field and in the Somali context: NRC, IRC, CESVI, Concern, ACF, Save the Children and OXFAM. The BRCiS Consortium was created in 2013 to enhance resilience in South Central Somalia, through DFID funding. BRCiS’ objective is to reinforce the beneficiaries’ capacities to withstand cyclical and minor shocks and, aims at decreasing the number of people that find themselves in a state of crisis. BRCiS adopts a holistic approach to resilience, which aims to respond to the immediate humanitarian needs of targeted households and communities, while at the same time tackling the root causes of vulnerability and destitution. The SNS Consortium was also created in 2013 and brings four agencies with significant nutritional expertise to come together in a collaborative intervention to improve the nutritional status of children less than five years of age in targeted areas of South Central Somalia, beyond the emergency treatment phase. ACF, SCI, Concern and OXFAM combine emergency aid provision with transitional support towards longer-term development goals. The BRCis M & E Manager will work in collaboration with M&E departments of all consortium members and DFID M&E advisers to establish and implement a standardized Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) system for the consortium and to work closely with DFID, other donors and the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) section of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) to implement research Liaises with Consortium Management Unit, Steering Committee, Technical Working Group, M&E counterparts in individual agencies, DFID appointed M&E consultants, ODI researchers. Reports to BRCiS Consortium Manager

Job description

· Under the strategic direction of the Consortium Manager, establish and implement an M&E System for the consortium

· Promote the standardization of M&E processes throughout the consortium ensuring coherence and quality of information collected against planned results and activities.

· In consultation with the Consortium member’s M&E departments, develop M&E procedures, tools and guidance documents

· Support the roll out of mobile phone data collection by training field staff, guiding in the creation of questionnaire templates and providing technical support

· Conduct training on the M&E Framework for implementing partners and local staff

· Coordinate closely with the external research partners to ensure that research activities are implemented

· Provide technical and surge support to the consortium members on M&E processes, outcome monitoring, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis for assessments, donor reporting and other processes

· Facilitate learning amongst the consortium members through reviews of progress against bench marks, collecting lessons learnt and best practices and facilitating dissemination of the same across consortium members

· Establish and implement an Accountability Framework with an ingrained Complaints Response and Feedback Mechanism (CRFM) for timely decision making and improvements to programming

· Ensure standardisation of tools for all consortium members to undertake regular program monitoring including carrying assessments, establishing baseline surveys, documenting progress, conducting Post-Distribution Monitoring (PDM) and endline surveys and evaluations

· Hold meetings with the DFID M&E advisers and consultants on a quarterly basis to ensure smooth coordination and to check that consortium tools are in line with DFID standards

· Prepare lessons and best practice reports for external and internal sharing

· Support all consortium members in setting-up mobile phone texting platform for Early Warning System (EWS) messaging

· Provide the Consortium Manager with key programmatic issues and/or resilience related issues that need further investigation through research.

· Promote innovation

Qualifications

· PhD from a recognized institution preferably in social sciences, international relations and/or development, statistics or other related discipline and a minimum of 5 years of experience designing and implementing M&E systems for international donor-funded projects

· Experience in conducting M&E activities in highly insecure context and for programme using community based approach (including data collection, statistical analysis, qualitative research, outcome monitoring and dissemination of results)

· Experience in designing survey and research tools, organizing and delivering training workshops, managing community mobilization and advocacy activities for local non-governmental organizations

· Direct experience in Somalia

· Strong knowledge of resilience theory and practice in Somalia

· Experience in working with Consortia in multi-year funding

Education field

· Social sciense

Education level

· College / University, Master / Phd grade

Personal qualities