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Job Description

• We are currently seeking for a qualified and goal-oriented professional who is enthusiastic about working with young people particularly girls/young women to join our team.

General Position Summary

• The Programme Officer will be responsible for planning and implementing programme activities on time, target and within program budget
• This position will ensure the Educating Nigerian Girls in New Enterprises programme in Lagos implementation is responsive to marginalized Nigerian girls, their communities and skill-based centers, and coordinate activities that transition marginalized girls into economic activities.
• Participate in enrolment programme participants
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant stakeholders in government and community leaders to promote girls learning in literacy, numeracy and economic empowerment
• In collaboration with other programme officers implement relevant surveys, need assessments, data and information collection for on-going monitoring.
• Organise trainings for facilitators to deliver sessions to girls on literacy and numeracy and life skills
• Seek opportunities from within communities for girls education and economic empowerment
• Monitoring of programme activities
• Organise community outreaches on sexual and reproductive health and life skills
• Advocate for improved gatekeeper commitment towards girls education and empowerment within programme communities
• Jointly organise international commemorative days within communities of programme implementation

Qualification and Experience

• First Degree in Social Sciences, Public Health, Communication Arts or other relevant field
• At least 1-3 years work experience including project management
• Excellent ICT, analytical, report writing and oral communication skills
• Experience managing projects particularly targeting girls
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English required, including report development, writing and editing.
• Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work independently and cooperatively with team members.

Success Factors

• A high level of personal integrity, honesty and transparency is essential.
• The ability to interact effectively with community stakeholders and staff members is required.
• A demonstrated ability to manage budget accurately, meet deadlines and develop high quality reports is necessary.

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General Position Summary

• The Programme Officer  - Monitoring and Evaluation will be part of a Team of Programme Officers working on a project and under the direct supervision of the Programme Manager.
• The PO will be responsible for planning, designing and implementing M&E activities of the project.
• S/he will be involved in analysis and evaluation of M&E data for program planning and decision-making, preparing regular reports on project progress.
• He/she will monitor the project activities, results, lessons learned and risks on a regular basis.
• The officer will be responsible for the management and maintenance of database in relation to the project activities.
• S/he will design the performance/capacity assessment of facilitators who are engaged on the programme.
• S/he will contribute to developing capacity of project staff on M&E in order to ensure quality M&E performance of the project.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Monitoring:

• Develop, set up and implement an appropriate M&E system, developing effective monitoring tools and formats guided by donors requirements
• Monitor the activities, inputs, outputs, effects and impact of the project and developing necessary data collection tools in this respect;
• Work closely with other programme staff and Programme Manager to ensure effective implementation of M&E activities;
• Organise M&E learning session with programme staff on a regular basis;
• Make sure that the developed monitoring tools and formats and reports are properly used by programme officers and others
• Monitor the progress of planned activities
• Conduct field visits and data validation regularly.

Data Collection, Processing, Analysing and Managing Database:

• Design appropriate formats for the project staffs for M&E purpose, ensure proper use of them, collect and analyze those and provide feedback to the concerned;
• Collect, compile and analyze different data related to project implementation on a regular basis;
• Design and manage surveys for assessing performance of facilitators and project beneficiaries
• Work with POs to ensure the collection and use of relevant and appropriate data;
• Ensure storage and protection of data and manage database in coordination with the Programme Manager;
• Conduct field visits regularly and prepare field visit reports.

Analysis and Evaluation:

• Design and implement appropriate tools for data analysis and evaluating project results and strategies;
• Prepare regular evaluation and present to program/cluster management;
• Capture lessons learned/good practices and share as appropriate;

Reporting:

• Produce relevant, timely and accurate reports (Monthly, Quarterly, Annual and other Adhoc reports);
• Prepare field visit reports;
• Produce monitoring/evaluation/survey reports.

Capacity Building on Planning, M&E:

• Organize need-based training on planning and M&E for project staffs;
• Assist in the preparation of reports on the findings and lessons learned from project interventions by field staffs and partner organisations;

Qualification and Experience

• First Degree in Statistics, Economics, Development Studies or related Social Science discipline.
• At least 1 - 3 years of working experience on handling M&E programmes preferably on a project involving girls or women.
• Have extensive experience in designing tools and strategies for data collection, analysis and production of reports
• Demonstrated ability in the design of methods and strategies to produce, analyze data, use and share information with a variety of actors in different environments.
• Ability to analyze trends to identify the risks and benefits of different options for data collection and validation.
• Demonstrated ability of high quality report writing with state-of-the-art graphs, charts etc.
• Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work independently and cooperatively with team members.

Success Factors:

• Excellent knowledge on M&E system designing, project monitoring and evaluation;
• Skills on data collection, processing and analysis;
• Strong analytical skills and ability to produce high quality reports;
• Ability to organize and facilitate training and workshop activities;
• Skills on using different software i.e. Excel, SPSS, ACCESS;
• Teamwork;
• Familiarity with research and scientific data collection methods;
• Advance level of skills on computer;
• A high level of personal integrity, honesty and transparency is essential.