Monitoring an Evaluation Officer - PEACE - Damaturu at International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Sector: Monitoring & Evaluation

Employment Category: Regular

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Nigeria

Job Description

IRC Nigeria Program

The IRC has been present in Nigeria since 2012 when the organization responded to flooding in Kogi state. In February 2014, the IRC moved into Adamawa State in North East Nigeria to provide humanitarian interventions through a multi-sectoral, integrated approach for conflict affected populations. IRC Nigeria now operates a country office in Abuja and field offices in Mubi and Yola of Adamawa State, Maiduguri and Monguno of Borno state and Damatru of Yobe State. The IRC is responding at scale to the humanitarian situation across sectors including Education, Child Protection, Health, Nutrition, Women Protection and Empowerment, Environmental Health, Economic Recovery and Development, Protection and Rule of Law, and Governance. In 2015, IRC Nigeria developed a five-year long-term Strategy Action Plan (SAP): The plan has Health, Education and Economic Wellbeing as high priority program areas. 

Job Summary:

The IRC is partnering with ECHO under the Pilot Programmatic Partnership to deliver a three- year regional Programme titled ‘Protective and Adaptive Education Approaches for Children in Emergencies (PEACE)’ in Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon between May 2020 and April 2023. In Nigeria,  PEACE intends to support more than 94,000 school-aged boys and girls most affected by crisis across Damaturu and  Gujba LGas of Yobe State,  Gwoza and Bama LGAs of Borno State, and Michika and Madagali LGAs of Adamawa State to access and learn in safe educational environments. 

Under the supervision of the Education Manager, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will be responsible for the coordination, and implementation of the monitoring and evaluation, research, and learning activities of the Project in two LGAs.  He/she will support the development of a systematic monitoring framework to improve the qualitative and quantitative evidence gathered by the Project.

Key Responsibilities

Program/project design and learning (5%)

• Help ensure that detailed and feasible project monitoring plans are developed that: i) provide an indicator matrix, ii) consider ethical and safe collection and storage of data, iii) consider data quality audits, vi) consider storing, protecting and sharing project documents;
• Closely work with Education Officers and Manager to make sure the Project has tested standard monitoring tools that capture both program activity and indicators progresses.
• Make sure the Project has accountability mechanisms up and running
• Assist in conducting and documenting project learning, and sharing lessons learned and best practices, incorporating these into project implementation.

Monitoring and evaluation (65% of the time)

• Facilitate the preparations of monthly project activity plans including M&E plans
• Work with project staff to determine which monitoring activities will take place and which data collection methods to use
• Work with project staff to ensure that the project work plans include monitoring activities (or that a stand-alone monitoring work plan is in place), is up-to date and progress tracked
• Work with project staff to develop, translate, pilot and finalize data collection tools as needed
• Work with projects to ensure that data is collected and entered into databases and tracking sheets, and the data platform regularly
• Work with project staff to track progress on action points related to implementation and M&E activities
• Work with project staff to provide M&E inputs for reports written during project implementation
• Closely follow up the field data collection and flag the data collection issues to the Education Manager, and PEACE M&E manager
• Conduct data quality audits of project data to identify and resolve systemic problems affecting data quality
• Document findings from data quality audit and store in project files to ensure collective and sustainable access
• Document schedule of activities related to sharing reports with the project team

Information management and reporting (20% of the time)

• Provide M&E inputs for regular analysis and action planning meetings to compare data against project milestones, targets, and quality expectations across project sites
• Identify issues requiring concerned staff attention
• Extract lessons learned from projects, systematically document and make readily accessible to staff
• Support Education Manager, and PEACE M&E manager to ensure that data is collected and entered into databases and tracking sheets, and/or the data platform regularly

Staff capacity building (5% of the time)

• Train Project staff in data collection methods, management, analysis, and how to use data for decision making
• Provide consistent, supportive supervision to strengthen staff performance as necessary to meet monitoring objectives

Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor (5% of the time)

• Perform other tasks as necessary and given by his/her supervisor

 Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to:  Education Manager
• Position directly Supervises: No
• Key Internal Contacts: Senior Education Officer, PEACE M& E Manager, Education and CP Manager, PEACE Education Officers, Child Protection Team, M & E Unit Team
• Key External Contacts:  Local Communities, Government Education Authorities

Qualifications

• University degree (statistics, social science, development economics, or a related discipline)
• Minimum three years of experience within the development / humanitarian sector
• Proven technical skills in monitoring and evaluation, experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis
• Proven abilities in developing monitoring plans, data collection, information management, use of databases, and analysis and performance monitoring
• Demonstrated ability to train and build the capacity of others
• Comprehensive knowledge of humanitarian accountability principles and their translation into practice
• Strong planning, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent analytical, presentation, and reporting skills
• An excellent database, data management, and data analysis skills, with experience using at least two software applications such as Microsoft Excel, Access, SPSS, STATA, Epidata, Epi-Info

Standards of Professional Conduct:  The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct.  These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability.  In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.

Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.