Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Location: Damasak, Borno State
Starting date: as soon as possible
Direct Line Manager: Monitoring and Evaluation Deputy Program Manager

Objective 1

• Support the operationalization of M&E systems on ACF projects to ensure compliance with donor and ACF M&E standards.

Tasks & responsibilities:

• Develop and update/pre-test quality assurance checklist tools for M&E team in collaboration with M&E deputy manager and manager and project staff
• Provide support to the review and development of M&E systems for new projects, in collaboration with M&E manager and deputy manager and projects teams at the field level
• Support teams to pilot data collection tools and integrate the findings into the final tools by providing feedback/error reports to the M&E DPM.
• Facilitate project’s use of mobile data collection by leading on the process and troubleshooting under the oversight of the M&E Deputy Program Manager.
• Train and manage the M&E Field Assistants to carry out regular M&E functions, ensuring that all HR procedures and policies are respected.
• Conduct appraisals of M&E Field Assistants as required by ACF guidelines alongside M&E DPM.
• Provide oversight of field monitoring activities and conduct data quality assurance.

Objective 2

• Ensure proper and timely implementation of ACF M&E tools, activities, and reporting.

Tasks & responsibilities:

• Ensure timely and quality data collection, inclusive of needs assessments, household registration, baseline/endline surveys, PDMs, KAP surveys, and others.
• Ensure implementation of the M&E plan through routine monitoring of activities at the field level
• Support program team to ensure quantitative APRs are updated based on activities accomplished for the month.
• Lead on the implementation of qualitative and participatory tools, including focus group discussions and key informant interviews to collect data from various groups in the community
• Ensure timely and quality data entry, analysis, and interpretation by working closely with the program, tech, and M&E teams.
• Undertake regular site visits and monitor the design and execution of surveys and other assessments, case studies, and accountability mechanisms to ensure that proper sampling and methodology are used.
• Perform data cleaning on all data collected and upload into the server
• Perform data analysis of M&E data for different projects as needed through Excel or other statistical software (PSPP) at the request of the M&E DPM.
• Provide training to program teams on program activity monitoring and reporting

Objective 3

• Document and promote good practice from planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities.

Tasks & responsibilities:

• Proactively identify good practices based on M&E findings and encourage utilization of data.
• Support M&E DPM to identify lessons learned and best practices, and produce case studies and human interest stories through collation and analysis of M&E information

Objective 4

• Represent ACF externally in relevant forums and working groups at State level.

Tasks & responsibilities:

• Represent ACF externally in issues related to monitoring, evaluation, accountability and reporting (consortia, alliances and clusters) as needed.

Internal & External Relationship
Internal:

• DPM M&E: Technical hierarchical relationship - exchange of information, collaboration, coordination.
• Project Manager: Operational hierarchical relationship– exchange of information, reporting, collaboration, coordination.
• Project Officers: Ensure exchange of information, collaboration and coordination.
• M&E Field Assistants: Manage M&E Field Assistants to ensure exchange of information, collaboration and coordination.
• Other ACF M&E staff: exchange of information, collaboration and coordination

External:

• Governmental and non-governmental partners: Exchange of information, coordination, training, supervision, influence on the choice of technical options
• Representatives of international aid organizations: Exchange of information
• Representatives of donors: Exchange of information, technical discussions, project related exchanges

Qualifications

• Degree in Economics, International Development, Statistics, Public Health, demography or related subject, with previous experience working in humanitarian projects
• At least 3 years of proven experience in the Monitoring, Evaluation and Accountability of humanitarian or development programs.

Skills & Experience
Essential:

• Experience of data collection, collation, analysis, and report writing
• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
• Strong organizational and analytical skills, and ability to work under pressure
• Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies
• Excellent verbal and written skills in English
• Commitment to and understanding of ACF aims, values and principles
• Excellent computer skills, particularly with Microsoft Excel, spreadsheets, Sphere standard, SPSS, SPHINX, or other statistical packages
• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited

Preferred:

• Previous experience with ACF.
• Strong interpersonal and community norms understanding.
• Experience in community development programming, preferably in nutrition, food security, livelihoods or WASH.
• Experience with mobile data collection processes and platforms.
• Experience in statistical analysis.
• Experience with participatory fieldwork methodologies.