CARE is an organization driven by its
mission to overcome poverty and social injustice.
CARE Somalia is seeking applications
from qualified and talented candidates for the position of M&E Manager based in Hargeisa, Somaliland with frequent travel
to other field offices.
Job Summary: Reporting
to the Emergency Director, the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager is responsible
for the management of CARE Somalia’s monitoring and evaluation systems for the
Emergency Program.
He/she will work close coordination
with Emergency Coordinators, Area Managers and field based M&E staff.
He/she will be responsible for
monitoring and evaluating initiatives, programs and projects, both new and
established, providing accountability and ensuring efficiency and success from
the beginning to the end of projects.
The incumbent will be responsible for
establishing; modifying and monitoring key program performance indicators and
record physical progress for specific programs and projects within the
emergency department.
In addition, he/she will play significant
role in program development including log frame and M&E plan development,
donor level reporting, data/information management, and capacity building of
CARE and partner staff in Somalia.
Key Responsibilities
R1: Monitoring and evaluation of
ongoing projects
- Support and facilitate the design of programme
level M&E frameworks for the Emergency program that meets or exceeds
donor M&E and reporting requirements.
- Provide technical guidance and support to CARE
and partner staff in monitoring of ongoing projects in line with approved
project designs
- Lead in development of appropriate tools for
project monitoring or review existing tools to be in line with the needs
of each of project.
- Lead in evaluation of all ending projects.
This will include identification of consultants (if required) development
/review of tools and technical review of reports.
- Undertake regular field monitoring of all
ongoing projects in close coordination with emergency coordinators and
area managers and provide clear recommendations to program teams.
- Develop, maintain and update as necessary the
M&E plans for projects, consistent with project M&E frameworks
R2: Program development
- Together with program team, lead in conducting
multi-sectoral assessments to collect comprehensive and reliable
information on the needs and priorities of populations of concern with
objective of writing new grant proposals.
- Contribute to program design to ensure
adherence to SPHERE as well as CARE International’s standards, including
the use of standardized indicators and documentation methodologies
- Lead in planning and design of all field
assessments to ensure quality data collection
- Prepare and submit high quality assessment
reports to be used for program development and decision-making.
- Represent CARE and actively participate in
inter agency assessments conducted within program areas
- Provide significant contribution to the
development of project proposals
- Contribute to emergency strategy development
R3: Program reporting
- Take the lead in collecting, analyzing and
reporting on relevant indicators for donor reports as well
organizational-wide M&E system.
- Review internal program progress reports such
as monthly reports and provide feedback to teams.
- Contribute to development and reviews of donor
reports
- Analyze reporting gaps within the different
projects and identify corrective actions needed
R4: Program data management and
analysis
- Together with emergency program team,
harmonize and standardize existing data collection, analysis and reporting
tools and systems in line with CARE Somalia’s Management Information
System as well as specific project needs within emergency program.
- Undertake analysis and reporting of all data
collected from the field and identify learning points /trends for
improving program quality.
- Closely work with the MIS Coordinator to
manage the country office MIS system. This will include updating the MIS
systems to ensure emergency program data is captured on regular basis.
- Develop a clear mechanism of tracking
performance indicators for all projects. This will include development of
M&E plans for new and/or ongoing projects.
- Monitor progress of program indicators,
maintain program data repository and keep up to date record of all data/information
required for measuring project performance indicators
- Maintain program data repository and
facilitate the storage, archiving and easy retrieval of program data
organized by projects, locations of action and temporal distribution, and
suggest better methods for improving existing data management systems.
R5: Staff Capacity building Undertake
M&E knowledge skills capacity assessment of CARE and partner program staff
and provide recommendations for addressing any gaps identified
- Design and implement tailored in –house
M&E trainings for CARE and partner staff
R6: Staff supervision Directly
supervise day to day roles of 2 program staff with M&E functions
- Undertake performance management of staff
supervised
R7: Other cross cutting roles
- Support the protection and accountability
manager in the management of Feedback, Complaints and Response Mechanism
(FCRM) system in place.
- Establish working relationships with the rest
of the country office M&E coordinators /advisors
- Contribute to overall CARE Somalia M&E
system development /management
- Share/ exchange M&E knowledge and
experiences with other CARE programs
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum university degree in social sciences,
information management, Statistics or other closely related disciples with
additional training on M&E
- At least 5 years of relevant work experience
in programme monitoring and evaluation preferably in NGO set up
- Experience working on projects funded by major
humanitarian donors, such as USAID, EC, and ECHO is an added advantage
- Excellent written and spoken communication
skills
- Capacity to produce high quality program
reports
- High-level proficiency in Ms. Excel and
quantitative analysis techniques such as SPSS, STATA, etc.
- Ability to design M&E tools
- Ability to meet strict deadlines in
high-pressure environments.
- Must have the ability to work independently
and have good initiative
- Ability to travel extensively to the field
locations
- Prior experience working in Somalia
Interested candidates who meet the
criteria above are encouraged to send their application letters and detailed
CVs to recruit@som.care.org by October 2, 2015.
Kindly indicate the position title on
the subject line when applying.
Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
CARE is an equal opportunity employer promoting gender, equity and diversity.
Female candidates are strongly
encouraged to apply.
Our selection process reflects our
commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
