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General Description of the Country Programme
GOAL’s Kenya’s country programme focuses on three of GOAL’s strategic sectors: Health (including WASH), Livelihoods and Child Empowerment and Protection.
We are progressively mainstreaming issues of HIV, gender, child protection and environment across all our programming.
GOAL works primarily works through partnerships with local organisations to
accomplish our our mission.Vacancies
General Description of the Country Programme
GOAL’s Kenya’s country programme focuses on three of GOAL’s strategic sectors: Health (including WASH), Livelihoods and Child Empowerment and Protection.
We are progressively mainstreaming issues of HIV, gender, child protection and environment across all our programming.
GOAL Kenya’s (GK) current country programme includes:
- Nairobi
Urban Programme for Extremely Vulnerable Children and Youth (EVCY),
including health, water and sanitation, child protection and education.
With the onset of a new fiver year country strategic plan GK will maintain
its work in child protection and water and sanitation, but expand health
programmes to include adolescent health activities and initiate a renewed
focus on improving livelihoods for EVCYs and there families.
- Northern
Kenya Emergency Programmes in Marsabit and Garrisa Districts. These
include a shelter and WASH programme in Dadaab Refugee Camp and a WASH and
disaster risk reduction programme in Marsabit Central District.
- Nakuru
Emergency and Post Conflict Programmes for IDPs displaced during the post
election violence. This programme currently focuses on the construction of
transitional shelter for IDPs in the Nakuru area, but will soon transition
into development programming in Nakuru town.
1. M& E Coordinator
General Description of the Role
Over the lifetime of the current strategic plan GOAL Kenya’s country programme has grown to incorporate both emergency and development programmes focused on health (including WASH), livelihoods, protection and shelter.
The centrally based country M&E team provides support and capacity for all GOAL’s programming in Kenya.
The MEL Coordinator is responsible for all the country programme monitoring, evaluation and learning systems; and will be responsible for the identification and induction of a national counterpart.
Specific Responsibilities
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Coordinator will be responsible for the following objectives:
Coordinate the overall country monitoring systems
General Description of the Role
Over the lifetime of the current strategic plan GOAL Kenya’s country programme has grown to incorporate both emergency and development programmes focused on health (including WASH), livelihoods, protection and shelter.
The centrally based country M&E team provides support and capacity for all GOAL’s programming in Kenya.
The MEL Coordinator is responsible for all the country programme monitoring, evaluation and learning systems; and will be responsible for the identification and induction of a national counterpart.
Specific Responsibilities
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Coordinator will be responsible for the following objectives:
Coordinate the overall country monitoring systems
- Support
and carry out regular monitoring of standard indicators, activities and
outputs of projects;
- Maintain
the standard indicator databases per sector;
- Sampling
of data from the standard indicator database on a monthly basis in each
location for quality assurance purposes including sampling of partner
monthly reports, MOVs for quality assurance purposes;
- Support
project managers to identify and resolve monitoring problems at individual
project level;
- Ensuring
that mainstreaming issues mentioned above are included in the monitoring
system as appropriate;
- Work
with the Grants Manager and Project Managers to provide monthly and
quarterly graphic feedback to management of standard indicators for all
three sectors comparing information over time and between districts.
Coordinate the overall GOAL country evaluation systems
- Lead
and support the implementation of GOAL’s global M&E framework, GOAL
Kenya’s M&E strategic framework and the M&E Plans for HIV,
livelihoods and WASH interventions
- Revise,
update and improve GK M&E strategic framework and M&E plan
documents according to requirement
- Provide
technical support to the identification and management of external
resources to carry out or support MEL activities
- Establish
and keep up to date the consultants data base
- Directly
carry out, supervise and review all GOAL Kenya evaluations, surveys, mid-term
reviews
- Design
and carry out or supervise surveys (MICS, KAPBS and other surveys)
- Develop
links with GOAL’s Survey and M&E Coordinator from the GOAL Technical
Team
- Familiarise
self and team with implementation of GOAL’s standard surveys (MICS, KAPBs,
Causal Assessments etc), if necessary organizing training from the survey
advisor or other sources in consultation with the Advisor
- Ensure
surveys are carried out in line with the M&E plan and the GOAL
Framework
Working with Local Partners on M&E Systems
- Coordinate
the design and implementation of partner and other evaluations as required
under the strategies, revise tools and M&E strategy regularly
- Support
the development of an evaluation system that will provide information for
measuring outcomes and impact of GOAL Kenya’s support to partner
organizations and directly implemented projects, designing and carrying
out or supervising outcome evaluations across all projects and programmes.
- M&E
systems development of partners may be accompanied by systems benchmarks
to track progress towards strengthened systems.
- Training-
Lead the development and roll out of M&E capacity building plans of
local partner organisations, including by providing tools and resources to
partners.
- Liaise
with partners and team members to plan, design and implement and report on
annual thematic outcome evaluations and ensure the databases for same are
in place up to date and accurate
Coordinate the overall country learning systems
- As
part of the learning function, seek to identify learning points across the
range of work carried out and identify opportunities to share this
learning through meetings, workshops, reports etc
- Evidence/learning
from Pilots: Give technical support to programmes in learning from
piloting new and alternative approaches
- Where
appropriate, share materials with GOAL’s best practice website
- Design
and carry out or supervise assessments, research exercises etc as
appropriate and possible support to programme development, monitoring,
evaluation and learning
- Design
and implement case studies across the programme
- Complete
one short article for each project each year
- Promote
strengthened understanding and capacities within project and programme
teams on MEL, and the use and /or analysis of MEL systems at the project
and partner levels
- Ensure
that annual work plans are developed and monitored by the Senior
Management Team
Coordinate the overall country M&E Plan
- Keep
the overall country programme M&E plan updated on a monthly basis,
based on activities implemented, new project needs etc
- Through
regular liaison with and support to the Programme Managers,
Assistant/Country Director ensure that the M&E plan is implemented
- Liaise
with each Project Manager, Programme Manager and the Coordinator to check
progress on the implementation of M&E activities
- Develop
an individual detailed M&E plan for each project and monitor for
implementation and quality
- Identify
needs that each project has to support implementation of M&E
activities, provide mentoring training to teams in the field locations
Manage the MEL team and be active member of the Senior
Management Team (SMT)
- Manage
the MEL team to meet the above objectives, carrying out evaluation,
surveys etc as required by the priorities of the plan and available
capacities within the team
- Develop
and update the monthly and annual work plans for the MEL team to meet the
objectives of the M&E plan.
- Prepare
with team members monthly work plans and monitor their implementation.
- Provide
line manager with a monthly report on the implementation of the work plans
and achievement of objectives.
- Develop
performance management appraisal objectives with each member of the MEL
team, ensure objectives are SMART and reviewed and revised every six
months.
- Build
the technical and analytical capacity of the M&E officers throughout
the year
- Work
collaboratively with GOAL’s M&E Advisor & Roving MEL Coordinator
Knowledge Management
- Follow
up mechanisms- Focus on insuring appropriate mechanism are in place and
maintained for the follow up of evaluation and tech team findings by in
country management with a view to maximising knowledge retention and use.
- Databases-
Ensure databases of programmes are kept up to date through an efficient
process and ensure data bases are accessible so that the information can
be used effectively.
Beneficiary & Other Stakeholder Accountability Mechanisms
- Assess
beneficiary accountability mechanisms in place and lead strengthening of
such mechanisms including through appropriately structure dissemination of
M&E findings
- Stakeholder
Accountability- Ensure a summary presentation of all evaluations
undertaken is prepared and rolled out in all locations and to partners as
appropriate and document the process. Ensure processes in place that make
feedback to beneficiary stakeholders systematic by partners and GOAL
Requirement
Essential:
Essential:
- Masters
Degree in programme evaluation, business administration or related field
- 5
years + programme related experience in international development
- 3+
years specific M and E Management experience
- Good
computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Access and statistical software packages)
- Good
demonstratable writing skills in English
- Strong
research and analytical skills
- Excellent
communication skills (written and spoken)
- Demonstrated
ability to facilitate training and capacity building for staff
- Ability
to embark on regular travel from Nairobi to other fields sites in Kenya
Desirable
- Relevant
postgraduate degree
- Experience
working with community based development projects
- Experience
in similar positions with an international NGO
2. M & E Officer
A key function of this position is to support the further development and implementation of the monitoring and evaluation system that will provide information at project, programme and country office level for measuring the outcomes and impact of GK’s support to partner organisations and directly implemented projects.
In addition the post-holder will be expected to identify and share lessons learned through GOAL and partner interventions in order to learn from and improve practice, and contribute to a continuous increase improvement of the quality of our work.
Working in collaboration with the MEL Coordinator, the MEO will be partake and be responsible for the following duties :
Key Duties
1. Monitoring
A key function of this position is to support the further development and implementation of the monitoring and evaluation system that will provide information at project, programme and country office level for measuring the outcomes and impact of GK’s support to partner organisations and directly implemented projects.
In addition the post-holder will be expected to identify and share lessons learned through GOAL and partner interventions in order to learn from and improve practice, and contribute to a continuous increase improvement of the quality of our work.
Working in collaboration with the MEL Coordinator, the MEO will be partake and be responsible for the following duties :
Key Duties
1. Monitoring
- Support
Project Managers to identify and resolve monitoring problems at individual
project level or partner level
- Conduct
monitoring support visits to each partner or project sites
- Sampling
of partners monthly reports and means of verification for quality
assurance purposes.
- Ensuring
some of the indicators sampled in the partners monthly report are also
Standard Indicators & then sample these indicators against the
Standard Indicator database for quality assurance purposes.
- Document
findings and share with the project teams
- Disseminate
lessons learned from monitoring support visits at monthly programme team
meetings
- Follow
up with PM’s to ensure the recommended actions are documented on the
project open action log.
- Ensure
that mainstreaming issues mentioned above are included within the monitoring
system as appropriate.
2. Evaluations
- Carry
out evaluations of partner sub-projects based on the GOAL Kenya Evaluation
Framework;
- Participate
in KAPBs.
- For
those evaluations assigned, ensure evaluation draft report is sent back to
the field within a month of the evaluation taking place
- Ensure
evaluation feed back meetings happen the month after the evaluation taking
place
- Coordinate
the evaluation feedback meetings with partners and stakeholders for those
evaluation assigned to you
- Ensure
final evaluation reports are sent to the partner within 2 months of the
evaluation taking place
- Supporting
GOAL project staff, partner staff, other stakeholders and beneficiaries in
participating in the evaluation process;
- Ensure
that mainstreaming issues mentioned above are included within the
evaluation report as appropriate.
- Assign
a rating for each evaluation undertaken and file on the shared drive
- Dissemination
of the main findings of each evaluation at the monthly programme team
meetings.
- Ensure
all evaluations are filed in both hard and soft
- Ensure
the relevant GOAL field office and partner have both hard and soft copies
of the evaluation report including the evaluation rating.
- Organise,
assist and take responsibility for baseline and follow up data collection pertaining
to GOAL outcome level evaluations. This will involve training data
collectors, quality controlling in the field and ensuring accurate data
capture and storage of data.
- Representative
sampling should be done in conjunction with MEL Co. from beneficiary
databases
3. Learning
- Collating
lessons learned from projects;
- Documenting
and disseminating lessons learned to GOAL Kenya and elsewhere
- Ensure
that mainstreaming issues mentioned above are included within the
monitoring system as appropriate.
4. To support the development of an evaluation system that will
provide information for measuring the outcomes and impact of GOAL Kenya’s
support to partner organisations in the development programme.
Support the data management process (collection, entry, analysis and presentation) to measure the outcomes of GOAL Kenya’s support to partner organisations in the development programme.
Requirements
Essential:
Support the data management process (collection, entry, analysis and presentation) to measure the outcomes of GOAL Kenya’s support to partner organisations in the development programme.
Requirements
Essential:
- Degree
in social sciences, development studies or related, relevant subject
- 3
years + work experience
- At
least 1 year experience in M&E with an NGO
- Good
computer skills (MS Word and Excel, SPSS)
- Good,
demonstrable writing skills in English and a local language used in the
North
Desirable:
- Strong
analytical skills
- Experience
with the computer package SPSS and/or STATA
- Good
communication skills (written, spoken) – English & a local language
used in the North
- Ability
to travel up to the filed, if required
To apply for the above positions, please send your CV by email,
listing three references including your last direct supervisor and salary
expectation to keapplications@ke.goal.ie.
Please put the job title in the subject line of the email.
The closing date for all applications is Friday 23rd March 2012.
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
GOAL is an equal opportunity employer, qualified male and female
Applicants are encouraged to apply.
Please put the job title in the subject line of the email.
The closing date for all applications is Friday 23rd March 2012.
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
GOAL is an equal opportunity employer, qualified male and female
Applicants are encouraged to apply.