Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer – Seas of Change project job at SNV

JOB DETAILS:
Job Purpose
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer plays a crucial role within the project team, ensuring that project activities align with established objectives and deliver measurable outcomes. The officer will be responsible for designing and implementing monitoring frameworks that track progress, analyse data, and assess the impact of project initiatives. By engaging with relevant stakeholders, the officer will foster an enabling environment conducive to knowledge sharing and collaboration, ensuring that all parties are informed and actively participating in achieving project goals. Conduct regular field visits and assessments to identify areas for improvement

Job Description
Key responsibilities:
• Responsible for the day-to-day implementation of monitoring, evaluation and learning activities for the project.
• The MEL Officer will collaborate with the MEL Advisor to design the programs’ MEL frameworks, ensuring effective tracking of progress towards planned results.

• He/she will support in collecting, analysing, and reporting data to measure the programs’ progress towards impact, outcomes, and outputs. This role will involve coordinating with field teams, ensuring data quality, and contributing to learning processes that inform program improvements.

• Craft comprehensive plans that outline how monitoring and evaluation will be conducted, including setting objectives, selecting indicators, and determining methodologies for data collection and analysis.

• Perform regular data quality assessments to verify accuracy and reliability of collected data and support implementation of corrective measures.
• Monitor all project activities, and progress towards achieving the project output to ensure alignment with strategic goals.

• Analyse quantitative and qualitative data to extract actionable insights that inform stakeholders about the program’s progress, outcomes, and impact.
• Offer evidence-based recommendations to the project team and stakeholders to refine strategies, enhance performance, and guide future decision-making.
• Strengthen the M&E skills of team members and partners through training sessions and support to ensure sustainability in M&E practices.

• Lead evaluations of programs to assess their effectiveness and impact on target populations.
• Design monitoring tools and systems that facilitate ongoing assessment of project activities against established indicators.

• Contribute to documentation of knowledge products including case studies, best practices, success stories and lessons learned and organize learning and reflection sessions.
• Follow up and assist project staff and partners in adhering to SNV and program reporting standards, ensuring that information/data required for timely and quality reporting is provided.

Qualifications
• A Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Qualitative Economics, Social Science, International development, or related disciplines is required with essential knowledge of research methodologies and data analysis.
• A minimum of 6 years of practical experience working around Monitoring and Evaluation of projects within the Energy sector with the ability to demonstrate an understanding of real-world challenges.
• Prior positions focused on monitoring and evaluation and the ability to design evaluations, collect data, analyse results, and report findings effectively is a must.
• Experience working collaboratively with other project staff in collecting data.

Additional Information
Planning and organising: The ability to determine goals and priorities and to assess the actions, time and resources needed to achieve those goals.
Communication: The ability to communicate in clear language and to adjust one’s use of language to the audience’s level, making sure ideas and essence are understood by the audience.
Problem analysis: The ability to detect problems, recognise important information and link various data to trace potential causes and look for relevant details.
Result orientation: The ability to take direct action to attain or exceed objectives.
Focus on quality: Setting high quality standards and striving for continuous improvement

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
• If you believe that your credentials meet the outlined profile, we invite you to apply by uploading your CV and motivation letter in English. Deadline is Monday 16th December 2024.
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