Feed the Future/Rwanda Hinga Wunguke Activity
MEL Officer
About Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA)
CNFA is a not-for-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to stimulating economic growth in the agricultural sector by nurturing entrepreneurship, private enterprise, and market linkages. CNFA specializes in fostering private sector investments in training, new technologies and marketing as a means to increase the overall competitiveness of agricultural value chains and rural development, to increase people’s incomes, to develop skills in the rural workforce, and to facilitate exports.
Program Description Feed the Future Rwanda Hinga Wunguke Activity
The purpose of the Feed the Future Rwanda Hinga Wunguke Activity is to support increased agriculture productivity and income, access to finance and markets, and access and consumption of nutritious food products in Rwanda, while increasing the resilience of the agriculture and food systems to the changing climate. To achieve this goal, the Activity will sustainably increase agricultural productivity, increase access to finance for farmers and agribusinesses, improve producers’ market outcomes, and strengthen the enabling environment to foster market-driven outcomes in agriculture.
Responsibilities:
Program Management:
- Work with the MEL Unit to assist in producing resource materials, deliver training, make presentations, and organize events/other activities to ensure development and maintenance of sound monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment.
- Undertake regular visits to activities to support monitoring, evaluation, impact assessment processes, and accountability processes.
- Monitor and document the progress of program activities against agreed indicators including Real Time Evaluation in area of jurisdiction.
- Work with the MEL Unit to monitor and document the impact of programs to inform overall program strategy.
- Undertake other assignments or tasks at the request of the MEL Unit.
Data collection
- Ensure Provincial Team staff and Partners are assisted and equipped to consistently and regularly monitor their work collecting quantitative and qualitative data on programming activities.
- Manage data collation of accurate and timely data of program activities and consolidate to feed into central data base.
- Facilitate Provincial Team MEL meetings, share MEL guidance and deliver training with Provincial teams. Link with central MEL team at head office.
- Work with other Provincial staff and Partners to ensure learning within Hinga Wunguke at the provincial level.
- Follow recommendations of the Gender and Social Inclusion Advisor to ensure MEL and CLA activities are inclusive of women, youth, people with disabilities, and other groups.
Accountability
- Prepare and submit reports as required on the programming activities within Provincial area for internal, donor and beneficiary community reporting.
- Work with Provincial Team staff to ensure accountability systems are in place that engage beneficiaries (especially women and youth), in evaluations, impact assessments and research in accordance with USAID and other relevant frameworks.
Learning
- Facilitate sharing and learning from the findings of quantitative and qualitative data with staff and partners
- Support in facilitating CLA tools and activities to help in the identification, analysis, and synthesis of lessons learned from activity implementation; facilitate incorporation of lessons into the life of project cycle.
- The MEL Officer will provide her/his expertise to ensure smooth implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the Activity and learning at the provincial level.
Qualifications:
- Rwandan Citizen with university degree in agribusiness, statistics, applied mathematics, monitoring and evaluation, computer science, economics, or relevant qualification.
- Experience and knowledge of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment methods and systems.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to work under pressure.
- Strong interpersonal and community development skills.
- Strong computer proficiency, particularly with Microsoft Excel and Word.
- Willing to be able to travel within the working areas of Hinga Wunguke (Kigali, Ngoma, Kayonza, Gatsibo, Bugesera, Nyamagabe, Nyamasheke, Karongi, Rutsiro, Ngororero, Nyabihu, Karongi, Burera, or Gakenke).
- Fluency in Kinyarwanda and English. Working French is an added value.
How to Apply
Interested applicants fulfilling the above-mentioned criteria are invited to submit their application documents through Job in Rwanda by “ filling out the application form carefully ” including detailed Curriculum Vitae (max 5 pages), a motivation letter, and a copy of a university degree(s). Past and current service certificates also need to be attached to the application (unproven experience will not be considered during the shortlisting). Submit the full file no later than 13th April 2023.
Only selected candidates will be notified.
