Junior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Neem Foundation

Details:

Location: Maiduguri, Borno State

Job Purpose:

The Junior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will report to the Senior M&E Officer, and will be responsible for implementing partners to provide strategic guidance to Monitoring and Evaluation on all Neem Foundation projects. S/he will support Neem Foundation’s M&E activities across all sectors including periodic assessments / surveys and routine gathering of project implementation information collection in our field office. S/he will implement efficient systems for accountability to beneficiaries, donors and other stakeholders, and will collate and archive project documentation; and foster cross-learning among all projects.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the development and regular updating of Neem Foundation’s M&E tools, approaches, frameworks and databases;
• Support the Senior M&E Officer to monitor all projects’ implementation progress on a regular basis against Neem Foundation’s quality standards and international humanitarian principles through monitoring visits, data quality audits, spot check against reports and review of implementation reports;
• Support implementing partners in collection and analysis of data (method, formats, software, etc.), indicator measurement, feedback and complaint mechanisms, negative impact analysis, etc.
• Provide technical support to HQ Programme Leads on the implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities, data management and integration of cross-functional issues;
• Support project wide assessments and surveys including baseline and other evaluative surveys. This might entail leading recruitment, orientation, deployment and management of external consultants.
• Support learning and knowledge management within all projects and ensure such best practice is communicated across Neem Foundation; and
• Ensure robust and participatory beneficiary accountability and feedback mechanisms are established, used and reported against.

Personal Qualities:

• Integrity, Accountability and Commitment
• Excellence, Diversity and Respect
• Ability to think creatively, analytically and strategically. 
• Able to take initiative in mobilizing and facilitating activities. 
• Multi-tasking and coordination skills (Planning & Organizing).
• Strong inter-personal skills.

Language Skills: Excellent oral and written English language communication skills. Hausa (an added advantage)