Farm
Africa
Job
Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
Reports
To: Country
Director
Staff
Reporting to Postholder: Monitoring & Evaluation Officers
Location: Nairobi with regular domestic travel and
potential for some international
Duration
& Hours: Fixed
Term, Full Time
A core
part of our strategy is to ensure that our interventions are both economically
sustainable and scalable.
The
systematic integration of market linkages in implementing programmes is crucial
to our ability to scale our interventions cost-effectively.
We are seeking a Monitoring & Evaluation Manager who will take technical responsibility by ensuring the consistency and high quality collection, use and reporting of results data across the programme, throughout the project cycle.
We are seeking a Monitoring & Evaluation Manager who will take technical responsibility by ensuring the consistency and high quality collection, use and reporting of results data across the programme, throughout the project cycle.
The
post holder will ensure that all projects develop and implement appropriate
M&E plans, based on robust logical frameworks that are suitably updated to
reflect changing situations.
The
post holder will develop appropriate tools and systems to support field teams
to use robust evidence of project results as a vital input to management
decision making.
The M&E Manager will provide critical analysis and technical input to project evaluation processes, ensuring Farm Africa can maximise the learning potential of all evaluations.
The M&E Manager will provide critical analysis and technical input to project evaluation processes, ensuring Farm Africa can maximise the learning potential of all evaluations.
The
role also acts as an interface between the Kenya and London offices on issues
relating to results measurement and reporting, working closely with the Head of
Programme Quality and Impact to ensure continual improvement of organisational
systems and processes.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
- Coordinate
and facilitate the development of appropriate project level M&E
systems and plans and provide technical guidance and leadership to
managers in implementing them
- Take
responsibility for ensuring the Kenya programme’s full compliance with
donor and organisational requirements for reporting results, and ensure
that project teams are familiar with these
- Coordinate
the implementation of baseline surveys and evaluation exercises
- Build
capacity of local communities, partners and staff on data collection,
management, analysis and results-based monitoring principles
- Coordinate
the Quarterly Report process and Programme Progress Review process,
providing a ‘quality assurance’ function to ensure that data reported by
all projects is relevant, accurate and verifiable
- Ensure
regular and sufficient communication with other country programmes and
London on overall M&E development and coordinate and cascade any
learning that will enhance M&E activities at Country Office and
project level.
- Work
with Head of Programme Quality and Impact to develop tools and methods for
capturing and documenting lessons learned from projects implementation and
ensure that future programming reflects such lessons
- Ensure
that project lessons are shared with communities and partners, in
collaboration with other M&E staff, policy advisor and communication
officer
- Ensure
that all projects have baselines in place within the first 3 months of
implementation
- Work
to ensure project teams are able to disaggregate data by gender and age,
where appropriate, by devising and disseminating simple data collection
methods.
- Ensure
periodic reports produced from each of the projects have case studies,
success stories and lessons learnt so that there is continuous information
that will feed into the overall learning process.
- Contribute
to the design of new projects, providing quality control function for log
frames, ensuring that proposed targets are SMART and that indicators will
provide data that can easily be aggregated for institution-wide results
reporting.
- Liaise
with Project Coordinators and senior managers to adequately budget for and
utilize resources to undertake M&E activities.
Person
Specification
Education,
qualifications & other knowledge
Essential
- Relevant
academic qualification in numerate/ analytical subject (e.g. statistics,
economics, econometrics, applied social science)
- Knowledge
of the development & policy environment in Kenya
- Demonstrable
knowledge of rural development issues in Kenya
Desirable
- Academic
qualification relevant to Farm Africa’s areas of operation (preferably
agriculture)
- Awareness
of broader trends in international donor landscape, relating to M&E
and results-monitoring
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable
understanding of monitoring and evaluation principles and practices,
including the application of the log frame approach
- Proven
experience conducting quantitative and qualitative field research and
analysis
- Experience
in synthesising data and drafting clear written reports/ briefings
- Proven
experience in training and capacity building in M&E practices
Desirable
- Previous
NGO work experience in rural development
- Experience
conducting field research in a rural context
- Communicating
technical information to ‘lay’ audiences
Skills
& Abilities
Essential
- Strong
communication skills (verbal & written)
- Good
interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Ability
to provide challenge and critique others in a constructive and open manner
- Fluency
in written and spoken English
- Methodical,
thorough approach with attention to detail
Desirable
- Managing
partner relationships
- Using
evidence for fundraising and policy influencing
- Capacity
building of organisations and individuals
Values
Farm
Africa seeks to employ those who believe, as we do, that farmers can and will
play a key role in achieving long-term rural prosperity in Africa and who seek
to deliver on those beliefs by:
- being
experts in our field, delivering insightful/impactful evidence-based
solutions
- pushing
boundaries, being creative with new and old solutions
- acting
for the long-term, building relationships and delivering long-lasting
change for farmers
- working
flexibly, taking advantage of the most effective solutions, whether from
the communities, private sector or government
- Sharing
knowledge with others, reaching more farmers than we do alone, ensuring
effective technologies are widely accessed.
How to
Apply:
If you feel you meet the requirements for these position, send your application letter indicating the title of the position along with an updated CV with email and telephone contacts of three professional referees to: The Corporate Services Manager, Email: kenyarecruitment@farmafrica.org before or by close of business on 19th August 2016.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Farm Africa is an equal opportunity employer and promotes gender equity.
Canvassing
will lead to automatic disqualification.
Farm Africa Kenya does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment
process. (Application, interview, meeting, processing, training or any other
fees).
