M & E Officer at Education Development Center (EDC)

Essential Job Functions:

Primary Responsibilities:
The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer has the following responsibilities

• Leading and managing all major M&E tasks related to the project that include strategizing and conceiving monitoring and evaluations, setting priorities, leading implementation and reviewing technical progress of M&E component.
• Implementing monitoring and evaluation process including data analysis and reporting.
• Ensuring proposed methodologies to measure the programs impact on access, retention, reading and learning outcomes, school safety, community engagement, gender, disability-inclusive, and conflict sensitive measures are consistent and systematically tracked and reported.
• Creating and updating a comprehensive M&E plan to ensure all requisite data is collected in a timely manner to report progress towards performance indicators. This includes routine (monthly/quarterly) appraisal of performance against targets, challenges to achievement as well as reasons for success.
• Creating a comprehensive data collection plan, including generation of forms, collection procedures, collection schedule and rapid appraisal of data (timely data monitoring).
• Routinely analyzing implementation data and proposing performance targets to project leadership as per USAID indicator to ensure progress.
• Ensuring correct compilation of data and database management.
• Overall management and oversight of M&E agents which include conducting regular meetings with M&E Field Officers to improve system and reinforcing capacities of agents.
• Participating in data analysis for quarterly and annual reports and drafting data analysis sections as well as preparing presentations for specific audiences as needed
• Conceiving of, organizing and conducting research as needed on identified topics in support of program objectives.

Skills and Experience
The applicant for the position must possess at least 8-year working experience on designing, monitoring and evaluation of programs preferably in the education sector. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate evidence of success and experience in monitoring results and indicators of education quality learning outcomes, access, retention and working in the target community.

Education
The applicant for the position must possess at least a Master Degree in Social Sciences or related field with at least 5 years experience or Bachelor Degree with at least 8 years experience.