Job Description
| Job Title | Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer |
| Reports to | Country Director |
| Management Responsibility | Monitoring and evaluation assistant, consultants |
| Job location | Kigali, with extensive travel within Rwanda and the region |
| Contract Duration | 1 Year contract, renewable |
| Grade | Grade3-2 |
| International Alert |
| International Alert is over 30-year-old independent peacebuilding organisation. We work with people who are directly affected by violent conflict to improve their prospects of peace, and we seek to influence the policies and ways of working of governments, international organisations like the UN and multinational companies, to reduce conflict risk and increase the prospects of peace.
We work in Africa, several parts of Asia, the South Caucasus, the Middle East, and Latin America and have recently started work in the UK, Somalia, and Kenya. Our policy work focuses on several key themes that influence prospects for peace – the economy, climate change, gender, the role of international institutions, the impact of development aid, and the effect of good and bad governance. We are one of the world’s leading peacebuilding NGOs with more than 200 staff based in London and 15 field offices. To learn more about how and where we work, visit www.international-alert.org. |
| Job Purpose |
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The purpose of this position is to support the continued growth and consolidation of the Rwanda Programme. This is a local position, the holder will work across programme projects to provide technical support programme staff and partners implementing in monitoring, evaluating, and learning from programme implementation. He or she will establish a clear and reliable result-based monitoring, evaluation and learning system for Alert’s projects in Rwanda. This will involve working closely with the Alert team in Rwanda and local partners in ensuring data quality and supporting project teams to examine projects outcomes and impact using participatory approaches. The successful candidate will have knowledge and experience of programme or project design and implementation, including monitoring and evaluation processes. The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will also input into Africa Programme wide initiatives such as supporting the implementing of the organisational impact plan and sharing lessons, tools, and approaches with other country teams across the organisation. The post holder will be supported remotely by the Senior Programme Design and Assessment Officer, based in London, and will be line managed by Alert’s Director. |
| Duties and Responsibilities |
1. Support the Rwanda project teams in strengthening their Monitoring & Evaluation and Learning (MEL) systems and to demonstrate impact achieved.
2. Contribute to Rwanda team in submitting new project proposals.
3. As a member of Alert, contribute to Alert’s systems, best practice and learning in programme development and impact assessment.
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| Travel requirements |
| The job is based in Kigali with extensive travel to districts outside of Kigali and other destinations as required. |
PERSON SPECIFICATION
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
| Talents |
| At Alert, we have introduced Talent Management to our business model as we believe talented people are crucial to the success of our work. We believe all individuals are talented and that success comes in matching the right talents to the right roles.
For this role, the skills, qualifications, and experience listed below are important, but we believe that to be great in this job you are likely, first and foremost, to have a talent for analytical thinking and persuasive communication, balanced with a constructive and collegial personal working style that can advance Alert’s goals of coalition-building and promoting peaceful outcomes in Rwanda. This is what we will be looking for above all else. |
| At least Bachelor’s degree level in a relevant field preferably in peacebuilding or conflict transformation, psychology, social sciences, gender studies |
| 5- years’ experience of project monitoring and evaluation at an NGO |
| Specific experience of field-based data collection inclusive of use of digital surveying and analysis experience using both quantitative and qualitative data, and primary and secondary data sources |
| Collaborative working style that enables coaching and training in M&E principles and best-practices |
| Experience conducting participatory research or participatory M and E, including using tools such as focus group discussions, case study interviews and outcome harvest approach. |
| Demonstrated capacity to coordinate evaluations, including experience developing evaluation terms of reference and recruiting and managing consultants |
| An eye for detail and accuracy and an ability to balance competing demands |
| Proficient in use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, Pivot Tables, Access, KOBO, as well as web browsers |
| Knowledge or demonstrable interest in peacebuilding |
| Ability to be creative and innovative in generating new ideas and undertaking research |
| Committed to International Alert organizational values and goals. |
| Excellent written and spoken English, French, and Kinyarwanda (Compulsory) – demonstrable ability to analyse and present a coherent argument both in writing and orally |
| Excellent communication skills |
| A collaborative team player, willing to lend a hand and go the extra mile |
| A self-starter with initiative and the ability to work with minimal supervision |
| How to Apply
To apply, please send a completed application form and equal opportunities form at Rwanda@international-alert.org ; Closing date: 6th August 2021 Note:
if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, you can assume that your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful.” |
