Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at Pyxera Global

Job Summary

• We are seeking qualified candidates for the position of Monitoring & Evaluation Officer. The position is full-time and community based in the Southern Katsina / Northern Kaduna Office, Nigeria.
• This position will work with the Rayuwa Nigeria team to design an integrated community development project with a focus on enhancing resilient agriculture and accountable education in the region.
• The Rayuwa project is funded by the John Deere Foundation and is housed within the Enterprise and Community Development Division of PYXERA Global.
• The Rayuwa project involves collaboration with diverse partners and a drive to be continuously adaptive to the local context. The Monitoring & Evaluation Officer will support and work with the Rayuwa Nigeria project team to design, plan, manage, monitor, and evaluate the project’s resilient agriculture and accountable education activities.
• The ideal candidate will have significant work experience in multi-sector and integrated development programs, leading teams, designing and starting up projects, and managing learning for iterative and adaptive projects related to community agriculture and education in rural settings.
• As part of the Rayuwa Nigeria team, the Monitoring & Evaluation Officer will also exemplify the Rayuwa Values (below) and value and encourage teamwork, equality, and a strong work ethic across all members of the team.

Key Responsibilities
The M&E Officer will report directly to the Rayuwa Nigeria Project Director and will have the following responsibilities:

• Provide oversight for program planning, monitoring, evaluation, and knowledge management
• Identify program performance indicators with the team
• Support the Project Director in developing quality assurance strategies for data gathering, management, and analysis
• Assist in program design and work plan development in the field, in consultation with the Project Director, in-country stakeholders, and PYXERA Global DC Office
• Identify promising areas of research and programming that present opportunities for innovation and/or fill potential gaps in project initiatives. Work with the Project Director and relevant Rayuwa Nigeria team members to assess the value and/or adaptability of the concepts to the local context and program model
• Establish and manage internal M&E systems for effective and efficient project data management and reporting
• Design, adapt, and apply quantitative and qualitative tools to assess program activities
• Orient and train project staff in understanding and applying results-oriented monitoring & evaluation policies, tools & methods; encourage Rayuwa Nigeria team to appreciate the importance and value of M&E
• Assess the needs and coordinate capacity development initiatives for M&E data collection and management
• Assist the Rayuwa Nigeria team in the development of regular programmatic reports to PYXERA Global DC Office per donor and partner requirements
• Conduct frequent site visits to observe trainings, monitor activities for compliance, and engage and build relationships with the community
• Ensure that project evaluations are carried out according to schedule; relay findings and recommendations to the Program Director and staff in a timely manner
• Demonstrates commitment to the Rayuwa Values: honesty, transparency, integrity, humility, freedom to innovate, equality, keeping a “light” attitude, quality, teamwork, focus on the goals, accountability to all partners, and monitoring to learn and improve.
• Supervise the work of M&E Assistant
• Other duties, as assigned

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Statistics, Agriculture, Education, Rural / Community Development, Sustainable Development, or related field of study
• A minimum of 5 years relevant professional experience in monitoring and evaluation within a community-based, rural agricultural, or educational programs
• Technical knowledge and experience in statistical analysis, research, and report writing
• Knowledge of rural farming communities and educational system and programs in the Southern Katsina/Northern Kaduna region
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing research, baseline surveys, reports writing, quality data collection, management and analysis, DQAs, performance monitoring plan (PMP)
• Advanced experience using Microsoft Excel, PowerBI, PowerPoint & Microsoft Word
• Knowledge of qualitative data analysis skills, case study writing, and formative research
• Practical hands-on experience using mobile data collection applications, such as CommCare or ODK, in rural settings and supervising the work of enumerators with different skillsets
• Relevant work experience using local education monitoring approach (LEMA), Lot quality assurance sampling (LQAs) approach, Group administered literacy assessment (GALA), etc.
• Excellent facilitation skills, familiarity with training-of-trainer (ToT) approaches and methodologies, and competencies to use tailor-made and diversified facilitation/training methods and tools
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills; proven working in a multi-cultural team setting on multi-year programs
• Experience leading project design and start-up activities preferred
• Experience with iterative and adaptive project management preferred
• Excellent writing skills - writing sample required.
• Well-versed in computer and internet operations and developing analytical reports.
• Fluent in English, proficiency in Hausa strongly required.
• Professional experience working in the Southern Katsina/Northern Kaduna Region, Nigeria preferred.

Desired:

• Advance use of Microsoft Excel to build basic models
• Demonstrated Experience conducting yield measurement and productivity analysis of Maize, Rice, Soybean, Sorghum and Cowpea in a multicrop setting
• Demonstrated skills to coordinate and work with multiple teams in synthesizing project activities report
• Ability to use Microsoft teams or Google Drive for knowledge management and collaborative development of reports
• Ability to design and develop surveys in ODK using XLSForms