Monitoring, Evaluation, Communication and Data Management Officer at IITA - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

Ref: IITA-HR-NRS2019-013
Location: Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti
Contract: 1-year renewable contract
Recruitment Type: National (1-year renewable contract)

Duties
Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:

• Ensure the project is moving towards intended results;
• Ascertain that trainees are properly guided to acquire the intended training;
• Ensure the accountability by all the business proprietors;
• Mentor the trainees to build the requisite skills and monitor them as they progress;
• Determine information needs of project managers, partners, and collaborating institutions;
• Identify and design performance questions, key indicators and targets for each project;
• Agree with stakeholders on how to record, report, and analyze progress against targets, and design formats for reporting on progress;
• Design and implement appropriate training manuals;
• Ensure professional branding of all the training materials;
• Work closely with the Project Manager and respond to enquires appropriately;
• Manage events and prepare associated communications materials including speeches and briefings;
• Write and develop communication tools, such as posters, media releases, slide presentation and newsletter;
• Proactively identify key program achievements and impacts for dissemination through a range of mediums to varied audiences;
• Undertake and facilitate the project M & E plan implementation, regularly revising and updating performance questions, indicators, methods, formats and analytical processes;
• Provide training, mentoring trainees and staff on the communication strategy;
• Conduct evaluation (baseline, mid-term, end of project), internal and external impact assessment studies;
• Develop alternative strategies for implementation of M&E activities as may be needed;
• Effectively maintain the project’s M&E database(s) and ensure the data are up-todate and can provide the strategic report needed;
• Perform any other duty as may be assigned from time to time by the Supervisor.

Qualifications

• MSc in Agricultural Economics, Program Evaluation, Mathematics, Statistics, Communication, and Development Studies with a minimum of six (6) years’ experience performing similar or related role preferably with an international organization.

Competencies
The ideal candidate must:

• Be experienced in designing, implementing and maintaining M&E systems in the agricultural and agribusiness sector;
• Have experience in managing quantitative and qualitative data and analyzing it using spreadsheets software such as SPSS, CSPro, Excel and STATA;
• Have demonstrated success in working in multi-disciplinary teams especially in
• CGIAR member organization and partnerships in a collaborative research work;
• Have ability and willingness to travel to monitor project implementation processes and perform data quality control;
• Have excellent leadership, training and facilitation skills;
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and fluent English language capability (with French being an added advantage);
• Have ability to demonstrate high level skills in organizational communications, public relations and media management in a complex and dynamic operating environment, preferably in an international development context;
• Have ability to multi-task and work under pressure;
• Have ability to apply donor branding and communications requirements;
• Have excellent team playing skills with the ability to also work with minimum supervision.

Remuneration

• We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.