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

Location: Borno state
Employee status: Fixed Term
Slot: 1
Duration:12 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 regional office program level M&E and accountability (Community Accountability Response Mechanism) systems.
•      Lead the development of guidance and frameworks for the 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 the regional office for 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 of CHAD Int’l.

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) and the knowledge of native language( Hausa, Kanuri, Shuwa) is a plus
•           Analytic and computer skills, including MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,)
•        The knowledge of ODk tool for data collection will be an added advantage.

 Personal Qualities:

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