The Officer Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Tana River will take overall responsibility of the coordination, implementation and review of the M&E needs of the Tana River County Programme
This includes but not limited to:
Supporting respective programmes undertake regular monitoring, periodic evaluation, leadership in research, documenting learning and completing the programme toolkit in line with the requirements of the country office M&E framework.
In addition, the M&E officer will be lead researcher in administering, analyzing and reporting on the Zurich Flood Resilience Measurement Tool under the Zurich project in 13 villages of Tana Delta sub County.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Direct Provision of M&E related Technical Support
Participate in all M&E training required for M&E officer for the delivery of the M&E needs of the Tana River County Programme
Training of programme staff, enumerators and any government officials engaged in the application of the Zurich Flood Resilience Measurement tool
Develop in line with provided templates monthly, quarterly and annual reports based on the Zurich Flood Resilience Measurement tool
In close collaboration with the line and technical managers, lead in the development of
key findings and lessons learnt from the administration of the Zurich Flood Resilience Measurement tool
Develop, adapt and roll out M&E related tools and technological innovations for collecting, collating, analysing data and report generation with an aim of improving the Tana River County Programme.
Generate project information and dash boards for tracking and depicting progress on Tana River County programme implantation and learning.
Provide technical leadership to the Tana River County Programme in the development of specific project M&E plans, programme toolkits and indicator tracking matrices in line with specific M&E requirements of existing and new projects in the County.
Participate in the development and review of the Tana River County Programme costed work plan in addition to leading in tracking of monthly and quarterly progress made on the costed work plan.
Lead in the determination and development of Tana River County M&E capacity development needs amongst programme staff and any technical support towards the delivery of the core responsibilities of the M&E officer.
Develop the overall framework, for program M&E, quarterly review, impact assessment, final evaluation, develop project Performance
Monitoring Plan with relevant data collection systems.
Oversight and Quality Assurance
Support the line manager in facilitating the Tana River County Programme monthly and quarterly
programme review meetings
Support the line manager in ensuring the progress against costed work plan and programme toolkit commitments are shared during the monthly and quarterly programme review meetings
Plan and conduct regular field monitoring visits and provide written feedback to relevant projects on performance based on monitoring data findings.
Support the line manager in the development of templates and guidance to document best practices including case studies across all projects in Tana River. The responsibility of drafting the documents rests with the programme staff while the M&E officer reviews and helps refine shared documents.
Capacity Building, Collaboration and Learning
Develop, manage and regularly update a repository of all Tana River County projects reports, surveys, etc
During emergencies, support emergency response activities through taking leadership in needs assessment either through primary or secondary data collection and participating in data validation forums within Tana River County.
Any other tasks as delegated by the line manager
Concern Code of Conduct and Associated Policies
Adhere to the standards of conduct outlined in the Concern Code of Conduct and Associated Policies.
Qualifications, Skills And Experience
Bachelors degree in Statistics, Monitoring and Evaluation. Candidates with an advanced certificate in statistics from a recognized institution will have added advantage.
Ability to use at an advanced level statistical software (ENA for SMART, SPSS and STATA) is required
Proven competency in ethical principles of research, statistical analysis and complex survey design and analysis is required
Proficiency in coding data collection tools using software such as ODK, Kobo Collect etc. required
At least two (2) years’ experience as an M&E officer and/or statistician required.
Experience in surveys, surveillance, qualitative data collection and advanced analysis highly desired.
Excellent report writing, communication, interpersonal, ToT, networking and coordination skills
Proficient in the use of computer applications
Fluent in both spoken and written English and Kiswahili.
