M & E Officer at Center for Community and Health Development International (CHAD INT'L)

Location: Borno state (Hawul/Shani)
Experience: 2-3 years
Qualification: HND/ BA/Bsc
Job Field: NGO/NON-Profit
Project Location:  Shani/Hawul
Duration: 10 months with possible renewal

Job Description:

CHAD is looking for a Monitoring & Evaluation Officer for our area office in Borno state, North-East Nigeria. The role of the M&E Officer is to establish and implement systems that promote evidence-based decision-making, program and project performance, and internal management. The M&E officer will contribute to quality programming through supporting access to and use of relevant and timely information on program scale, relevance, and effectiveness.
Within this context, the M&E officer will provide technical support to the program staff pertaining to M&E and build capacity in the region by identifying and supporting the implementation of effective, cost-efficient and meaningful M&E systems. The officer is to reports to the Head of the Program.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Line management for project staff leads the process to establish country office and area office program level M&E and accountability (Community Accountability Response Mechanism) systems.
•  Lead the development of guidance and frameworks for the country and area office procedures, policies and processes that assist in institutionalizing and supporting M&E.
• Participate in program design and proposal discussions, including the theory of change development, log frame design, and budgeting for M&E.
• Participate in Country Office, and Area office strategy discussions to ensure M&E remains a high priority in the Programme.
• Provide leadership, support to technical advisors, project, and area managers in planning and standardizing M&E across projects.
• Support project managers and coordinators through the development of data collection methodology and tools, and systems for on-going data analysis.
• Develop a data management system for Programme and M&E data.
• Ensure that monitoring data are fed into management decisions and used in Programme management.
•  Lead internal improvement processes (M&E matrixes, Macro Log Frames etc.) according to need.
•  Encourage and support the absorption of lessons and recommendations at the office, and emerging from various AO (grant reviews, after-action reviews, grant closures) and CO events (evaluations, assessments, technical visits, learning reviews)
• Facilitate data analysis and improving program staff data literacy (and usage of the institutional platform geared toward this) that supports strategic decision making.
• Encourage community meetings/orientations at the project start-up.
•  Supervise and support in executing M&E plans, and Accountability systems.

Qualifications

• At least 2-3 years’ experience in creating and leading the implementation of M&E systems for an NGO
• At least 3 years’ experience working in an emergency or post-conflict setting
•  Thorough experience with and knowledge of principles and current approaches to monitoring and evaluation in relief and development programs, using both quantitative and qualitative methods
• Understanding of data and information needs for program management and decision making
•  Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring and other formal and non-formal methods
•  High-level English language proficiency (speaking, reading, writing)
•  Analytic and computer skills, including MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,)

 Personal Qualities:

• Handling insecure environments
•  Managing resources to optimize results
• Empowering and building trust
•  Planning and delivering results