ERD MEAL Officer at International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Job Overview/Summary:

The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, under direct supervision of Economic Recovery and Development MEAL Manager, is responsible for the development and administration of high-quality Monitoring and Evaluation system for the Economic Recovery and Development sector. The position holder will provide technical oversight and direction on all monitoring and evaluation needs across ERD sector areas.

Major Responsibilities:

• In close coordination with ERD Manager, ERD MEAL Manager and Senior ERD Manager, conduct and ensure  the on-time execution of projects major monitoring and evaluation events including but not limited to baseline survey, mid-term evaluation, final evaluation, data quality audit and field supervision.
• Collect, collate/organize, analyze, and report data for further improvement of program, reporting, and information sharing.
• Regularly develop and update M&E dashboards for all active ERD projects.
• Support the management of ERD M&E data for IRC annual statistics, reports, factsheets and SMT reports.
• Track progress against monitoring work plans.
• Coordinate the field level community participatory monitoring and evaluation, reflective practice, and impact measurement.
• Provide technical assistance to staff and partner organization on information management system, proper data collection and record keeping.
• Provide consistent, supportive supervision to strengthen staff performance as necessary to meet monitoring objectives.
• Update M&E plan timely and provide feedback to program staff on status and quality of implementation.
• Assist with monthly and/or quarterly performance indicator analysis, including generation of reports as well as presentations for staff related to on-going performance.
• Conduct regular data verification exercises to ensure reporting and collection of quality data.
• Actively participate in and contribute to M&E team activities, system assessments, development, and implementation of new systems and/or tools aimed at strengthening overall M&E practices at IRC Nigeria.
• Closely work with staff to ensure they follow correct procedures and criteria during beneficiary registration.
• Take part in the recruitment of enumerators and survey consultants.
• Provide M&E inputs for reports written during project implementation.
• Manage and maintain accurate Commcare online updates on projects under implementation.
• Produce analytical, timely and accurate M&E reports on weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly basis or as scheduled.
• Develop schedule for data collection and coordinate with the PM to ensure timely collection of data.
• Ensure program team collect high quality monitoring data timely manner collate/ organize data for reporting.
• Work closely with the program teams to conduct market assessments and produce reports.
• Undertake Post Distribution Monitoring of beneficiaries as scheduled.
• Train staff and enumerators on administration of various data collection tools related to project monitoring, baseline, and evaluations.
• Develop program factsheets and lessons learnt for sharing with wider stakeholders.
• Foster participatory planning and monitoring by training and involving primary stakeholder groups in the M&E of activities within the sector.

Key Working Relationships:

• Position Reports to:  ERD MEAL Manager with technical oversight from the ERD Technical Coordinator
  Position directly works with:  ERD Livelihoods Officers, ERD/Livelihoods Assistants, Cash Officer
• Indirect Reporting:
  Other Internal and/or external contacts:
• Internal: M&E Senior Manager, ERD Manager, ERD Senior Manager
• External:  N/A

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics/Agricultural Economics, Computer Science, anthropology and Development Studies or related field required.

Work Experience:

• Minimum of 2 progressive years of Monitoring and Evaluation and/or Research work with skills.
• Good understanding of ERD/Food Security sector indicators and analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to write/produce quality reports.
• Experience in electronic data collection and management.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• A strong foundation in research methods, statistics, monitoring, and evaluation
• Strong technical skills in data analysis using advanced excel, STATA, SPSS and other statistical software.
• Strong capacity in the use of digital data collection applications (particularly, Commcare, Redrose collect, Kobo Collect, ODK etc.)
• Ability to design and manage interactive dashboards using advanced Excel, Power BI, Tableau
• Demonstrated understanding of intermediate and advanced statistics and the ability to summarize generalize and make predictions from large data sets.
• Communication experience and skilled in qualitative and quantitative M&E methodologies and techniques
• Demonstrated experience in data cleaning and transformation.