Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant at Pyxera Global

Job Description

• We are seeking a mid-to-senior level Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) consultant who can lead program evaluation activities for a Rockefeller Foundation-funded Agricultural Development Program in Northern Nigeria.
• The Program, based in Kano, seeks to reduce post-harvest loss at the farmer and transit-to-market levels in the Nigerian tomato value chain.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical support on M&E to relevant PYXERA Global’s program managers, partners, and field teams;
• Assist in or lead designing, coordinating, and conducting program baseline, mid-term, and end-line evaluations;
• Assist with or lead designing and testing tools and systems for M&E data collection;
• Assist in or lead selection of local evaluation firms or enumerators to conduct program evaluations;
• Act as a liaison between local evaluation firms and PYXERA Global;
• Deploy to program sites to supervise enumerator training, sampling, tool piloting, and field data collection by local evaluation firms or enumerators;
• Lead or support PYXERA Global and its partners with data coding & cleaning;
• Lead or support PYXERA Global and its partners with data analysis and reporting.
• Report directly to the Deputy Director and collaborate with the M&E team.

Sector & Technical Expertise:

• Agriculture, particularly in northern Nigeria.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in a relevant field;
• Minimum 5-year evaluation experience with an international development organization;
• Knowledge of program monitoring and evaluation frameworks;
• Understanding of current M&E trends, data collection, management and analysis systems & technologies in a development organization;
• Proven experience with international program evaluation design, data collection, management and analysis;
• Excellent writing skills;
• Excellent command of spoken and written English;
• Able to work effectively in a diverse team environment;
• Self-motivated, able to work without close supervision;
• Experience managing local enumerators or evaluation firms in data collection, processing and analysis;
• Nigerian national preferred.