ACTED (Agency for Technical
Cooperation and Development) is a non-political and non-confessional
International NGO founded in 1993 with its headquarters in Paris, France.
ACTED is looking for professionally
confident, self motivated, experienced and committed team player to fill the
below positions in Somalia - Kismayo and Elwak
M & E Assistants
4 Positions
Department: M
& E
Direct hierarchy: M
& E Officer
Contract duration: Six
Months
Location:
2 x Kismayo
2 x Elwak
2 x Elwak
Starting date: September 2014
Responsibilities:
- Assist the AMEU officer to prepare and
implement monitoring and evaluations plans to measure project progress and
impact indicators
- Assist in planning and conducting field level
data collection and project monitoring using different techniques
including household surveys, market data collection, focus group
discussion, key informative interviews, etc.
- Conduct training and supervision of enumerator
teams , including checking questionnaires for reliability and consistency
- Support the implementation and evaluation of
the feedback response mechanism
- Conduct quantitative data entry and recording
of qualitative field notes and conducting quality checking and cleaning of
data
- Support analysis of qualitative and
quantitative data, writing reports to inform programme development and
implementation
- Improve AMEU process and procedures including
data collection skills, data quality, analysis and report writing
- Develop case studies, success stories and
lessons learnt papers
- Perform any other task assigned by the
manager.
Qualifications / Required Skills:
- Diploma in a social science or related field;
Degree in social sciences or related field is preferred; at least one year
experience in working with International NGO in the similar level.
- Experience in participatory assessments,
monitoring and evaluation, data processing and analysis
- Good contextual knowledge of local issues,
community priorities, social and cultural constraints and realities
- Ability to organize and train field teams
- Reliable, honest and sincere work attitude
- Good communication and inter-personal skills
- Ability to coordinate with other departments.
- Highly motivated and ability to work with
culturally diverse groups of people;
- Excellent interpersonal skills and
demonstrated ability to establish effective and working relationships.
- Experience and willingness to travel within
Somalia areas where ACTED is active.
- Excellent communication skills, personal, calm
and good sense of humor
- Fluent in written and spoken Somali and
English
- Proven ability to handle large and varied
workloads, and deal constructively with stress
Monitoring & Evaluation Officers
2 Positions
Department: M
& E
Direct hierarchy: M
& E Manager
Contract duration: Six Months
Location:
1 x Kismayo
1 x Elwak
1 x Elwak
Starting date: September 2014
Responsibilities:
- Develop AME project monitoring and evaluation
plans, M&E tools, data collection tools and methodologies specific to
field projects.
- Facilitate and coordinate the collection of
accurate, reliable and useful data for project implementation and
development.
- Daily supervision of AMEU field teams to
ensure field monitoring, evaluation and other AME tasks are followed.
- Check and ensure data collection, identify
problem areas and recommend solutions.
- Compile AME reports and in collaboration with the
Database officer/Data Analyst and analyse AME findings.
- Updating work plans and AME tasks for all
field teams.
- Support the field teams in collection of
monthly market data (food baskets) and compile into comparative reports.
- Forecast AMEU team finance, logistics and
administrative (FLAT) needs in advance of activities planned.
- Oversee quick and accurate reporting of
monitoring results to ensure ACTED, donors and other organizations can
build upon successes and lessons learnt during program.
- Provide technical assistance to Somalia
project team in developing strategic and implementation plans in design
process.
- Develop/consolidate key indicators and
subsequently incorporate them in all agreements and amendments under the
projects.
- Ensure transparent and accountable
participation of project beneficiaries in AME activities.
- Provide internal ACTED reporting as required
for the coordination team.
- Any other duty that may be assigned by the
manager.
Qualifications / Skills / Profile
Required
- Degree/ Higher Diploma in Sociology, Community
Development, Statistics, or related field.
- Extensive experience of social research
methods to conduct monitoring and evaluation for humanitarian and
development initiatives/interventions.
- Knowledge and experience of participatory rural
appraisal methods an asset.
- Excellent analytical skills in order to
interpret qualitative and quantitative data and discern useful
recommendations for programme implementation and development.
- Statistical analysis including use of SPSS and
Excel for data analysis;
- At least 3 years of work experience in a
similar field; former experience with humanitarian organizations is an
asset.
- Somalia National with good English
communications skills (both oral and written) and ability to travel to
Kenya and other Somalia bases where ACTED is operational.
- Strong team player of high integrity, pleasant
personality, ability to work under least supervision and meet strict
deadlines.
- Computer literate and with excellent IT
Knowledge.
- Strong people management and leadership skills
Application Procedure: Qualified
Somalia persons with the required skills and qualifications are invited to
submit their detailed curriculum vitae and cover letter to kenya.jobs@acted.org
and received on or before 12 September 2014.
Applications sent after the deadline
will not be considered.
When applying, please indicate your preferred/suitable duty station.
ACTED is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Please note that only the shortlisted
candidates will be contacted.