Job Title: Programme Advisor -
Monitoring & Evaluation (Kenya)
Reporting to: Programme Manager Kenya
Based: Nairobi with approx. 40% travel to field
locations in Kenya
Duration: 4 years
LPI's work in Kenya focuses on enhancing the resilience of
communities to engage with conflict in nonviolent and constructive ways, so
that sustainable arrangements for the management of resources are developed and
enforced, and at the same time synergies between local and national efforts are
created so that the pattern of neglect from central power is interrupted and
more attention and resources are devoted to the targeted area, and the current
conflicts in the area targeted by the programme can be transformed.
Purpose of the Position:You are responsible for the
monitoring and evaluation of the Kenya Programme and of all projects contracted
to Partner Organisations in Kenya.
Description your tasks and responsibilities:
1. You support programme and project design, including
applications to donors. In particular, you are in charge of developing project
assumptions, writing chains of results, log frames and detailing how the
monitoring & evaluation will be done.
2. You keep track of the expected results of the Kenya programme
- by monitoring progress towards expected results through data collection on an
annual basis and more regularly through observation - and you inform the
Programme Manager Kenya (PMK) through reports so that she can make decisions to
adjust and maximise the effectiveness of the programme.
3. You lead contingency planning by: identifying critical
assumptions in programme and projects; assigning probabilities of being right
about the assumptions and ranking their importance; tracking and monitoring the
programme and projects; setting the ‘triggers’ that will activate the
contingency plan; and specifying alternative response options.
4. You provide the PMK and other LPI staff with information that
is timely, relevant, easy-to use and cost-effective - the information they need
to make timely and well-informed strategic and operational decisions.
5. You train partner organisations on all aspects of Monitoring
& Evaluation (M&E), this means that you design training packages and
deliver them. In doing so, you ensure that the capacity lies in the institution
and not only in persons, so that staff rotation will not impair the partner
organisation’s capacity to do M&E.
6. You accompany partner organisations in monitoring and
evaluating the projects contracted by LPI, in order to build their capacity
and, at the same time, ensure the quality of the monitoring processes and
reports produced.
7. You participate in LPI’s overall development of the PME&L
toolkit.
8. You support the implementation of the Kenya Programme, based
on need and as assigned by the PMK.
9. You build and maintain good relations with LPI’s partner
organisations.
10. You execute other tasks assigned by the PMK.
Your line manager is the Programme Manager, Kenya.
You need to maintain work relationships with all LPI staff in
Nairobi, the Partner Organisations in Kenya, the PMEL advisor in Uppsala and
third parties as needed.
Skills and qualifications required:
- Professional
experience (beyond academic course work) in project management, monitoring
& evaluation of peace building and/or development work.
- Experience
in the design and implementation of quantitative and qualitative research
methodologies.
- University
degree in management studies, social studies, education or development
studies. Master’s preferred, Bachelor with relevant skills and experience
(5+ years) may be considered.
- Strong
reporting skills in English language.
- Fluency
in Swahili language is a requirement.
- Balanced,
mature personality with developed diplomatic skills, able to cope with
working in stressful environments.
- Eager
and flexible mind, willing to acquire new skills on the job.
- The
candidate does not require a work permit to work in Kenya.
To apply:
Send a one-page letter detailing your qualifications and
interests in the subject area and a full CV to
applications.lpi.nairobi@gmail.com.
Please state “Programme Advisor - Monitoring & Evaluation,
Kenya” as a reference in your letter of application.
The deadline is May 18, 2012, at 16.00 EAT.