Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Key responsibilities:

• Ensure quality coding of survey tools under the supervision of M&E Officer and MIS Officer;
• Ensure quality data collection through supervision of data collectors in the field;
• Ensure that data collection is done according to the validated methodology defined in the terms of reference;
• Take lead in qualitative data collection (FGD, KII, IDI) with beneficiaries;
• Support M&E Officers in training of data collectors;  
• Ensure proper community mobilization and sensitization prior to data collection;
• Conduct daily debriefing with data collectors and ensure that issues and challenges are reported to the M&E Officer;
• Support M&E Officer for pre testing of survey tools;
• Responsible for sharing of community engagement schedule with programs on monthly basis;
• Regular activity monitoring (participation, decision making, acceptance of the monitoring);
• Support the program team to organize the kick off meeting in the community;
• Provide daily feedback to M&E Officer on on-going data collection, including data collectors performance and challenges encounters;
• Conduct data collectors appraisal following each activities, to submit to the M&E Officer;
• Submit timely field reports to M&E Officer after implementation of activities;
• Support accountability team for community sensitization and receiving feedback and complaints in the field;
• Support accountability team in their daily activities when required;
• Support project teams for field monitoring;
• To support program teams with the data collection and analysis of the needs assessment for the community engagement;
• To support learning workshops with community.

Position Requirements:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Rural Development, Business, Administration, Statistics, Demography or related subject, with previous experience working in humanitarian projects;
• 1 year M&E related work experience;
• Experience in data collection, collation, analysis, and report writing (Mobile Data Collection a strong advantage);
• Commitment to and understanding of Action Against Hunger aims, values and principles;
• Professional, good organizational capacity, good human relationships and team spirit, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive;
• Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word);
• Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited;
• Fluency in English (both written and spoken skills) plus at least one local language (Hausa, Kanuri, Fulani, Shuwa, etc.);
• Good knowledge of the intervention area/s and local economy;
• Previous experience with Action Against Hunger or international NGOs is an added advantage;
• Previous humanitarian programming experience.