Monitoring and Evaluation
Manager
(Dadaab, Kenya)
Description
Please note:
Description
Please note:
This is a 3-month
position; 6 weeks in July-August 2012, and 6 weeks in October-December 2012.
Background:Working in partnership with Star FM of Nairobi, Kenya, the Dadaab Humanitarian Information Service (HIS) project aims to address communication gaps between refugee populations and humanitarian organizations by providing essential life-saving information that informs, protects, empowers, facilitates dialogue and affects behavior change in the target audiences of camp residents.
The project will also assist the humanitarian sector to be more effective by enabling communities to better understand aid operations, access relief services and communicate with humanitarian agencies.
The project will help
to establish, train, and operate a community radio station run by Star FM and
staffed by youth from the refugees and host communities that is being built in
the camp to respond directly to the information and communication needs of
those residing and working there.
Scope of Work:
The Monitoring and Evaluation Manager will be responsible for the development, implementation and strengthening of monitoring and evaluation systems and methodologies for this 12-month groundbreaking project in the Dadaab camps that will identify, train and oversee local project staff.
Scope of Work:
The Monitoring and Evaluation Manager will be responsible for the development, implementation and strengthening of monitoring and evaluation systems and methodologies for this 12-month groundbreaking project in the Dadaab camps that will identify, train and oversee local project staff.
Specifically,
responsibilities will include:
- Design
tools for roll out and coordination of ongoing media landscape and
information needs assessments (qualitative and quantitative) in the camps,
making use of SMS and other platforms as necessary, to feed immediately
into program activities. This will build off of capacities and
partnerships developed during an Internews-led assessment conducted in
August 2011.
- Design
tools and methodology for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the Dadaab
HIS project, including relevant baseline, end line studies and regular
monitoring, as required and in coordination with Internews M&E
standards. This includes designing, conducting and reporting on learning
reviews to capture lessons learned and best practices of the project.
- Hire,
train, mentor and supervise local research and assessment teams and
monitoring and evaluation staff.
- Analyze,
produce, and strategically disseminate and present reader-friendly
results-oriented reports on the findings of ongoing assessments,
monitoring, and evaluation studies to be shared widely in country and to
larger audiences.
- In
coordination with the Humanitarian Liaison Officer, share and present the
results (i.e. reports) of these assessments with the humanitarian
community, government officials, local media and other media development
partners as required, through presentations and/or email and social media,
as required.
- Provide
pertinent M&E data to the Project Director to strategically inform
decisions on project implementation.
- Assist
Project Director with preparation of high quality reporting to donors that
highlight project achievements and milestones.
- Document
best practices and success stories and prepare documentation for public
relations purposes.
- Any
other duties as required.
Qualifications:
- Fluency
in spoken and written English; knowledge of Swahili or Somali an asset.
- Relevant
university degree in social sciences field with specific focus on
monitoring and evaluation and research studies.
- A
minimum of 5 years experience in monitoring and evaluation of
internationally funded programs, preferably media development programs.
- Proficiency
in evaluation design and development of indicators.
- Experience
in quantitative and qualitative data collection/survey design,
implementation and analysis.
- Ability
to train, mentor, and manage teams of local researchers, including
newcomers to the research sector.
- Competent
in qualitative methodologies and participatory assessments.
- Demonstrated
ability to communicate M&E requirements and outcomes to project
colleagues and other stakeholders.
- Proficient
in MS Excel, word processing, Power Point and experience using statistical
programs such as SPSS.
- An
understanding of the vision/mission, core values and objectives of
Internews.
- Excellent
administrative and organizational skills.
- Willingness
to work in demanding, stressful, and, at times, dangerous situations under
difficult living conditions with respect for basic security rules.
- Psychological
resilience and a sense of humor.
More about Internews in Dadaab:
Over twenty years after the first Somali refugees fled the crisis that ousted President Siad Barre, more than 982,000 Somalis are now refugees in neighboring countries and some 1.5 million are internally displaced.
Over twenty years after the first Somali refugees fled the crisis that ousted President Siad Barre, more than 982,000 Somalis are now refugees in neighboring countries and some 1.5 million are internally displaced.
Thousands continue to
cross the border to North-Eastern Kenya into the largest refugee complex in the
world, Dadaab.
At their inception,
Dadaab camps were intended to house 90,000 refugees; today that figure has
surpassed the 522,000 mark, according to UNHCR.
In August 2011,
Internews led a joint assessment of the communication and information needs of
refugees in the Dadaab camps that found that serious communication gaps between
the humanitarian sector and refugees are increasing refugee suffering and
putting lives at risk.
Results from the final
report, Dadaab, Kenya - Humanitarian Communications and Information Needs
Assessment Among Refugees in the Camps, show that large numbers of displaced
Somalis did not have the information they required to access basic aid or voice
their concerns or ask questions to aid providers or the government.
Internews is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect and the means to make their voices heard.
Internews is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect and the means to make their voices heard.
How to apply:
Closing Date: 8th June 2012
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