Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser, YouLEAD at Save The Children

Child Safeguarding

• Level 3:  the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs.

Role Purpose

• Save the Children seeks a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor for an anticipated, five-year USAID-funded project that will increase voluntary uptake and continued use of family planning (FP) services among poor, unmarried adolescents aged 15-19 in selected urban areas of Nigeria.
• The project will use a holistic, multi-sectoral approach that moves beyond traditional, facility-based service delivery, is rooted in youth engagement, and takes into account the unique susceptibilities vulnerable urban adolescents face, such as familial and interpersonal violence, poverty, substance abuse, limited educational and economic opportunities.
• The M&E Advisor will be responsible for developing and implementing monitoring systems that track project progress and impact. Nigerian candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• This position is contingent upon donor approval and funding.

Scope of Role

• Reports to: Project Director, YouLEAD
• Staff reporting to this post:

Key Areas of Accountability

• In close coordination with the Project Director and team members, develops, implements, and continuously improves the project’s M&E systems, processes, and tools, ensuring information collected on activities, beneficiaries, outputs, outcomes, and impact is accurate, timely, and disseminated appropriately in high-quality reports that meet donor and Save the Children requirements;
• Coordinates with evaluation partner and other consortium members ensure a cohesive M&E system and strategic use of data for collaboration, learning, and adaptation;
• Drives implementation of the project’s learning approach, documenting lessons learned and ensuring they are applied to improve effectiveness and maximize project impact;
• Supports the development of knowledge products and participates in project knowledge-sharing activities, supporting dissemination of lessons learned to a wide local and global audience;
• Provides technical assistance and develops staff and partner M&E capacity through training, site visits, manuals, and other technical support as needed;
• Supports project reviews and evaluation activities, including coordinating mid-term and final evaluations, and supporting donor and external reviews.

Behaviours (Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:
Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

Additional job responsibilities:

• The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

• We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

• The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety:

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Master's - level degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Public Health, or related field;
• A minimum of seven years of experience in M&E of FP and / or adolescent health programs, and at least three years of experience in M&E for USAID-funded programs;
• Demonstrated experience in ensuring ethics for M&E with adolescents are adhered to, including child safeguarding practices;
• Demonstrated experience developing and refining performance M&E frameworks, including indicator selection and target setting, developing and refining data collection tools and processes, database management, and reporting;
• Strong analytical skills and an understanding of relevant data collection, analysis, and evaluation methodologies (e.g., qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, quasi-experimental);
• Ability to analyze complex data and summarize it for a range of audiences;
• Experience leading or supporting learning agenda development and implementation, and applying lessons learned to refine project approaches for maximum impact;
• Experience developing the M&E capacity of project staff and/or partners using context-appropriate approaches;
• Experience using digital data collection tools and maximizing digital intervention tools to collect and use data to improve programming;
• Familiarity with USAID reporting procedures and systems;
• Strong interpersonal skills and creative problem-solving skills;
• Flexible, innovative, creative, adaptable, and open to new ideas, comfortable with change and uncertainty;
• Prior work in Nigeria’s urban areas and familiarity with the political, social, and cultural context;
• Professional fluency in English, including strong oral and written communication skills; professional fluency in at least one local language a benefit.