Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (Re-advertisement)

About CARE;

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis.  These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world.  Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe.  Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.

Job SUMMARY

The purpose of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer position is to ensure the She Thrives Project data collection, compilation, and documentation of implementation progress, lessons, and project-level data. The M&E officer monitors the quality of field-level data and ensures proper reporting.  She/he will oversee the monitoring, evaluation, analytics, and reporting of performance and results of the project.  She/he will oversee the data management of direct service participants of the project.  She/he will lead activity, output, and outcome efforts to strengthen monitoring and evaluation and performance reporting within the operational area of the project. This position reports to the Learning, Design, and Measurement (LDM) manager.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

 Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting

•  Assists field staffs particularly front line staffs of the project and Implementing partner(IPs) in developing regular data collection format, in-field supervision, and database maintaining, analyzing, and interpreting data and ensuring forward accountability to the community and learning;
• Assists and conduct  project monitoring and supportive supervision at operational sites of the project
• Assists and conduct joint monitoring and coordination meetings with IPs and other stakeholders.
•  Conducts and participate on data quality assessments and validation
• Assists and participate on project bassline evaluation, mid-term evaluation, end line evaluation, outcome survey and other project start up surveys and assessments
• Assists and leading the monitoring system of the project direct beneficiaries /participants.  
• Participate and provide inputs for the development of Comprehensive Monitoring Evaluation plan (CMEP).
• Provides regular support for direct beneficiaries/participants services data collectors, and providing feedbacks.
•  Assists  IPs and CARE staffs  in overall MEAL and reporting system
• Assists project staff  in reviewing and revising project M&E plan and indicators as required
• Leading the role for preparation of dip implementation plan of the project and breaking down for each operational Woredas.
• Provides reporting feedbacks to  CARE project staffs and  IPs
• Assists, preparing and submitting government  reports
• Assists the project staffs of CARE and Implementing partner in understanding activity/output/outcome project level data;
•  Organizes participatory monitoring events along with the facilitators and partners and communities
• Participates on project performance review meeting at different level
• Collects and provides information and technical support in the preparation of quarterly or biannual reports
• Ensures the implementation of project performance monitoring plan (PMP) /framework.
•   Ensures consistency of information in different reports
• Participates in the formulation and revision of different reports and plans

Program Progress Tracking

• Identifies indictors which are reliable for data quality assessments
•  Ensures all project and partner staff use the same and latest versions of data collection and reporting forms.             
• Supports and produces  monthly, quarterly, semiannually and annually project tabular reports by reconciling with the narration reports.
•  Analyzes plan versus achievements of the project and identify justifications for under achievements or over achievements.
•  Ensures cross cutting issues such as, gender and age are effectively addressed/ mainstreamed in all project implementations as part of ensuring accountability.

 Data/Information Management

• Supports the M&E team of the project in the development of automated Direct Participant Monitoring System (DPMS) for direct service recipient of the project.
• Supports the M&E team of the project in the development of tool design on DHIS2 platform
•  Manages routine data, including data cleaning and entry in the DHIS2  platform to ensure completeness and quality
• Ensures all devices that will be used for direct participant monitoring system are functional with correct programming and are available for use.         
• Reports any errors identified during data review to appropriate team members and assist in resolving issues
• Assists direct participant targeting, recording and reporting. Assist the analysis of latest child labor data and data collection system and process
• Assists the development of simple Management Information System (MIS) to capture datas for non-direct participants of the project
•   Provides Village Saving andLoan Association (VSLA) data on CARE standard system.
• Ensures effectiveness and adequacy of systems to track flow of information on inputs utilization and project participation, including the process of beneficiary selection and project prioritization;
• Ensures all the datas of the project is collected, cleaned, stored , reported and documented properly
• Verifies and assess data as planned in the CMEP/PMP, .and ensures the project and partner staff receive regular feedbacks on the quality of their submitted forms or reports according to the guidelines (i.e., accuracy, completeness and timeliness).                               
• Updates the program information system on regular basis.

Capacity Building

•  Assists the field program staffs and IPs in organizing M&E related capacity building workshops/trainings to stakeholders and indirect participants of the project.
•  Compiles and share project related data among field office staff;
• Coach and mentor the front line staff on how to handle apparatus/tablets for data collection
• Identifies and fills gaps on data collection system of the project.

Knowledge Management

•  Assists and conducts learning assessments and produce learning briefs and other knowledge management products.
• Assists and produces  success stories , rolling profiles, and most significant change stories
• Organizes and participates on learning events and experience sharing

GENDER EQUALITY

• Understanding and demonstrated commitment to the importance of gender, youth and social inclusion issues.
• Demonstrated commitment to principles of Gender Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and PSEAH (safeguarding), as evidenced in previous positions / programming.

QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW-HOW)

A. EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

§ Bachelor's degree in Social Science, Statistics or other related fields.

§  Knowledge of statistical software for both quantitative and qualitative data

Desired:

§  Job related experience and maintaining program database, generation of data and qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills.

§  Experience related to data collection platforms,  DHIS2  and KOBO.

B. EXPERIENCE:

Required:

§  3 – 5 years job-related experience.

Desired:

§  NGO experience.

C.  TECHNICAL SKILLS

Required:

•  Well organized, which gives attention to details and have some analytical skill;
•  Computer skill particularly Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point;
• Good oral and written communication and interpersonal skill;
• Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality, sensitivity to HIV/AIDS, participatory approach and sustainability;
• Proficiency in English and local language both verbal and written.
• Desired:
• Utilizing programming and statistical software (such as SPSS) to compile data and information for various systems, and knowledge of basic monitoring and evaluation and research tools;

D. COMPETENCIES

Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, analytical ability, initiating action, interpersonal skills, developing teams, decision making, information monitoring, facilitating change, proactive problem solving, planning, and organizing.

E.  WORKING CONDITIONS AND LEVEL OF TRAVEL REQUIRED 

The post is located at South Region, Gedio Zone, Dilla with 50% field travel to program sites. 

CARE Ethiopia reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer.

By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms that s/he has no objection to CARE Ethiopia requesting the information specified above. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks.