Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at AfriLabs

Job Purpose   

The M&E Officer will be responsible for monitoring and ensuring high quality and timely inputs, and for ensuring that project(s) maintains its strategic vision and that its activities result in the achievement of its intended outputs in a cost-effective and timely manner.
The M&E Officer will be responsible for designing and implementing the M&E activities of the Project; assisting the Project Manager in preparing Quarterly/Annual reports on project progress and will monitor the project activities on a regular basis, developing and maintaining the MIS of the Project and will be responsible for the collection & analysis of different data in relation to the project activities.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer works in close collaboration with the project team.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities   

The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will have the following duties and responsibilities:

• Develop and strengthen monitoring, inspection and evaluation procedures

• Monitor all project activities, expenditures, and progress towards achieving the project output;

• Recommend further improvement of the logical framework;

• Develop monitoring and impact indicator for the project success;

• Monitor and evaluate overall progress on achievement of results;

• Monitor the sustainability of the project's results;

• Provide feedback to the Project Manager on project strategies and activities;

• Suggest strategies to the Project Management team for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the project by identifying bottlenecks in completing project activities and developing plans to minimize or eliminate such bottlenecks;

• Report monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual progress on all project activities to the Project Manager;

• Conduct capacity assessment on existing monitoring and evaluation system 

• Develop indicators and a monitoring strategy for the project;

• Provide inputs, information and statistics for quarterly, annual and other reports to Project Management Team and AfriLabs

• Participate in annual project reviews and planning workshops and assist the Project Manager in preparing relevant reports;

• Support monitoring and evaluation of the effects and impact of the project;

• Assist in coordinating across the available components of the Project to ensure effective implementation of M&E/MIS;

• Assist the project personnel with M&E tools and in supporting them in their use.

• Perform other duties as required;

IV. Measurable Outputs and Performance Indicators

• Preparation of monthly MIS reports;

• Assist the Project Manager in preparing other relevant reports;

• Organize and conduct training on M&E/MIS for project 

• Assist Project Manager in the preparation of reports on the findings and lessons learned from project innovations;

• Provide input and update information related to project outcome in UNDP and GOB website;

• Assist Project Manager in preparing monthly and quarterly reports on project progress based on MIS reports on project activities;

• Prepare Issues Log and Risk Log for the project;

• Develop M&E system for the Project and for the government counterpart/stakeholders;

• Prepare and maintain a database

  Qualifications, Skills, Working Conditions   

• University Degree preferably in Business Administration, Economics or related field.

• At least 5 years of experience in the design and implementation of M&E/MIS in development projects.

• Strong training & facilitation skills

Skills

• Monitoring, Evaluation & Research 

• Project Management  

• Open Data Kit (ODK) Development 

• Mobile phone-based data collection 

• Knowledge Management

• Data Management 

• Data Quality Assurance 

• Data Analysis & Interpretation 

• Statistical Applications (SPSS, STATA, ATLAS.TI, AMADO) 

• GIS Applications 

• Map Production