Job position: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at World Relief Rwanda (WRR: Deadline: Friday, January 17th, 2020

Position Title:

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Position Location:

Kigali

Department/Division:

Programs

Health Program Manager

Start Date:

Effective Immediately

12 Months with a possibility of extension.

Hours per week:

Full Time – 40 Hrs.

The number of Positions Open:

1

This role will lead and co-ordinate the M&E component of the nutrition-sensitive social protection project, ensuring that M&E is embedded within the programme; tailored to national contexts and contributes to on-going learning. As the successful candidate you will have strong analytical and research skills; experience developing and designing monitoring and evaluation tools for behavior change programmes, and experience of supporting others in a range of evaluation and data collection methodologies.

The role involves supporting community leadership and local governance staff and volunteers on a diverse range of programmes focusing on testing and documenting the approach intended to strengthen coordination, planning and overall governance at a community level in support of service delivery to poorest households.

Lead on monitoring and evaluation for the nutrition-sensitive social protection programme:

1.      Work with the Programme Manager and project staff to embed monitoring and evaluation into the new nutrition sensitive social protection project. This includes designing the overall approach for M&E within the programme.

1. Carry out the design and roll-out of monitoring tools that can be used to track progress and capture data at process and impact level across 8 pilot cells. This includes qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys.
2. Develop appropriate methods through which beneficiaries receiving case management services (children, pregnant and lactating women, EPW) can be involved in the Monitoring, Evaluation, and learning of the programme.
3. Analyze data at regular moments within the pilot to evaluate the programme at process and impact level, enabling the team to learn and implement changes that will inform future delivery and facilitate programme improvements.
4. Create succinct reports that will inform program Manager, project staff, and partners of the progress of the programme
5. Where possible, measure the contribution of the new Nutrition social protection project to the wider government goal
6. Provide advice on needs assessment and analysis, monitoring and evaluation methodologies in order to develop a consistent and continually improving the approach to collecting and using data.
7. Assist others to put in place and carry out appropriate outcome-focused evaluation processes for the project. For example, helping to develop logic models and evaluation frameworks
8. Promote the use of learning from evidence and evaluation and share and promote the use of performance and impact reports across the districts to drive learning, business improvements, planning, and strategy.

10.  Provide specific support to Church Empowerment Zone (CEZ) in one of the Modelling Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection Interventions (MNSSPI) area

• Capacity building for CEZ staff: Train CEZ staff on excel and other areas of M&E
• Ensure that CEZ has a data collection schedule and they store collected data
• Church database content: Work with CEZ staff to update existing data of the church database (list of volunteers, church profile) and other sheets of the database
• Annually update demographic data namely the number of households and the total population
• Help CEZ staff to report quarterly metrics on time and with quality
• Provide feedback to CEZ in regard to quality and reliability of their data
• Support in qualitative assessments organized in CEZ
• Support CEZ staff to provide feedback on main achievements to key stakeholders

This job description is not exhaustive and serves only to highlight the main requirements of the post holder. The line manager may stipulate other reasonable requirements. The job description will be reviewed regularly and may be subject to change.

• Minimum Bachelor Degree in statistics or equivalent related degree
• Ability to maintain performance expectations in conditions with limited resources.
• Strong interpersonal skills are vital.
• Strong capacity building and facilitation skills
• Ability to work with minimum supervision, and to deal with problems/issues promptly and efficiently
• Excellent written and spoken Kinyarwanda
• Excellent written and spoken English,
• Excellent written and spoken French is advantage
• Competent in the use of Microsoft Office, DevInfo, SPSS or CSPro

Experience Required:

• 3 years’ experience in the field of monitoring and evaluation assessment and surveys, baseline and end line reports writing  having conducted barrier analysis, formative research and operational research will be added value
• Demonstrated experience in  needs or capacity gap analysis, data collection,  data entry, data cleaning  and  data quality analysis and M&E report writing

Physical Demands:

• Willingness to travel in the provinces

Work Environment:

• Kigali based on required visits to provinces as guided by supervisor.

  How to Apply

Please submit a motivation letter, copy of your notified degree, comprehensive curriculum vitae with 2 names of referees by Friday, January 17^th, 2020 to World Relief Rwanda Office, plot 53, KG 647 St, Kacyiru, Kigali. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified for test or interview.