Monitoring and Evaluation Officer NGO Job Opportunities – Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Organization: Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About NRC:
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 30 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP is a global provider of expertise that contributes to solving challenges in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors. Our ultimate goal is to strengthen the resilience, and protect the lives, rights and livelihoods of vulnerable people and communities. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.
Job Summary: This position serves as a supervisor for Monitoring and Evaluation Assistants and a team of enumerators, when needed. She/he will contribute to quality programming through supporting access to and use of relevant and timely information on programme scale, relevance, and effectiveness. Within this context, the M&E officer will provide technical support to area programme staff pertaining to M&E and build capacity in the area office by identifying and supporting the implementation of effective, cost efficient and meaningful M&E systems.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Planning and Maintaining M&E Systems
- Coordinate processes to establish and maintain program level M&E systems
- Support and contribute to the development of a data management system through documentation, implementation and coordination of standardizes information flow of M&E activities and reporting
Program Support
- Support in standardizing M&E across projects
- Support in developing data collection methodology and tools, and in actual data collection, as needed
- Support in data management and development of clear information flow between program and M&E staff, as needed
- Ensure that monitoring data are reported in a timely manner to relevant program and managerial staff
- Capacity building and training of program staff on M E technical and conceptual areas, as needed
- Coordinate regular program review meetings to facilitate dialogue and learning on project/program Implementation
- Liaise with peer organizations and M E staff in partner agencies to facilitate lessons learned and coordination
- Support the consideration, inclusion, collection and analysis of indicators related to cash-based interventions and market based approaches within (and across) NRC, where appropriate.
- Contribute to the identification of opportunities to implement cash-based interventions and market based programmes.
- Support the analysis of qualitative information/data collected during FGD or meetings involving the communities we serve (community based protection programming).
- Maintain project indicator M&E databases; as well as the project level standardized M&E indicator database aligned to the CO Strategy results framework.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Monitoring and Evaluation Officer job must hold a university degree in economics, rural development or in other related fields. Prior experience with monitoring and evaluation required.
- At least 3 years’ experience in an international NGO preferably in an emergency or post-conflict setting, including M&E capacity and systems development
- Experience with and knowledge of principles and current approaches to monitoring and evaluation in relief and development programs, using both quantitative and qualitative methods
- Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring and other formal and non-formal methods
- Fluency in English and local/refugees languages
- Excellent Computer skills, including MS Office (Word, Excel)
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong organisational and team working skills
- Good cultural awareness and sensitivity
- Highly approachable, trustworthy and confidential
- Knowledge of the NGO operations and the dynamics of the humanitarian sector is a plus
- Good level of proficiency in Windows Excel and quantitative analysis (SPSS preferred)
- Proven presentation, training and facilitation skills
- Ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision
- Ability to meet deadlines in multiple tasking environments
- Ability to engage and motivate staff in a challenging program area
- Good coordination skills
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates who wish to join NRC in the aforementioned capacity should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 16th April 2020