Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Job in Kenya – UN

Monitoring
and Evaluation Officer

JOB PURPOSE

• The primary purpose of the position is to support the
  management of process/activity monitoring for all CSP activities, leading
  M&E process monitoring reporting while ensuring both data and reports
  are timely, complete, and of good quality. It is very critical that
  process monitoring generates evidence, documented as key findings and
  recommendations to inform activity implementation improvement. As such, it
  will be critical for the findings and recommendations to be shared widely
  with key stakeholders and for implementation follow-up. The position will
  lead the provision of technical support to field offices, the development
  and updating of M&E tools and guidelines, and liaison with activity
  and outcome managers on activity monitoring processes.
  
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee process/activity monitoring for all CSP outcomes,
  working closely with field coordination, field offices, activity and
  outcome managers to ensure all activity monitoring for each of the CSP
  activities are implemented in a timely manner and quality control measures
  for each of the processes are in place.


• Oversee M&E quantitative data analysis and lead
  qualitative data analysis ensuring analysis is comprehensive and moves
  from descriptive and inferential level to inform recommendations and
  enhance utility of M&E products. 


• Produce M&E monthly and quarterly reports, with key
  findings and recommendations and lead the process of dissemination
  ensuring there is improved and innovative dissemination modalities that
  enhance access and utility of M&E products by outcome and activity
  managers, senior management, field offices and all relevant stakeholders.
  Work with activity managers to track progress of implementation of
  recommendations.


• Develop and keep Kenya CSP M&E guidelines and tools updated
  all the time, ensuring these are shared with field offices and activity
  teams while ensuring the teams have the required M&E capacity and
  support to implement required M&E activities as per the guidelines.


• Lead baselines and other M&E related assessments ensuring
  these are coordinated with relevant stakeholders and are timely to feed
  into programming decision making, are disseminated and recommendation
  implementation tracked and documented.


• Provide technical support, not limited to trainings, to field
  offices and activity teams ensuring data collectors and users understand
  M&E activities and their responsibilities in ensuring data quality,
  completeness, timeliness and utility.


• Draft and coordinate M&E related inputs for Annual
  Country Reports for all outcomes ensuring COMET design is managed and
  updated all the time.


• Support drafting and coordinating M&E related inputs to
  proposals, donor reports, concepts etc


• Lead M&E for WFP innovation activities, ensuring these
  have M&E systems to support learning


• Support and sometimes manage (as and when required) CSP
  Outcome monitoring, reviews and evaluations while taking lead, under the
  guidance of the head of M&E, in coordinating centralized evaluation
  activities when Kenya is a sample country.


• Support Country office Annual Perfomance Plan (APP)
  processes, working with the head of M&E, to ensure that all the
  functional and programme teams understand the APP indicators and provide
  required information and data in a timely manner.


• Supervise M&E data assistant, M&E enumerators and
  consultants when and as required and have a day to day technical support
  role to the M&E data analyst, senior M&E associate, outcome
  M&E focal persons and M&E staff responsible for data collection at
  field level.

Qualifications

• Education: University degree in one or more of the following
  disciplines: M&E, statistics, nutrition, economics, agriculture,
  international affairs, social sciences, development studies, project
  management and or similar relevant disciplines


• Experience : At least five years working experience with UN
  agencies or other International Development Organization in the areas of
  M&E, VAM, project management and or information systems.


• Language: International Professional: Fluency (level C) in
  English language. Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN
  language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or WFP’s working
  language, Portuguese.


• National Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language
  and the duty station’s language, if different.

Specific Requirements

• Should have a thorough knowledge and understanding and
  practical experience in designing and implementing monitoring and
  evaluation systems, as well as a high level of analytical capability, data
  analysis, excellent writing and oral presentation skills and excellent
  interpersonal skills.


• Should have Computer skills in word processing, spreadsheet
  applications (MS-Word, Excel, etc.) and statistical analysis software’s
  for both quantitative and qualitative analysis. 


• Ability to plan and organize work and supervise staff;
  resourcefulness, initiative, maturity of judgment, tact and ability to
  establish and maintain effective working relations with persons of
  different national and cultural backgrounds.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

 30 June
2023.

How to Apply

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