Practical Action
Vacancy
Announcement: Senior
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
Practical
Action is a global innovator, inspiring people to discover and adopt ingenious,
practical ways to free themselves from poverty and disadvantage.
With
over 50 years of expertise, Practical Action has a strong heritage, and track
record of bringing communities and experts together to find practical,
sustainable solutions to enable people to meet their needs, which work for both
people and the planet.
We
are committed to advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment through all
our work.
At
a minimum, we ensure that all our work is gender sensitive, seeking gender
transformative approaches as our overall ambition and in accordance with
context.
Practical Action is commencing a five-year project that will be implemented in Kisumu, Homabay, Siaya, Migori, Nyamira, Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia and Vihiga Counties.
The
project aims to make agriculture an attractive and resilient employer for young
people by promoting agricultural livelihoods for the youth underpinned by
agro-ecological principles and practices.
The
project aims to break the cycles of low productivity and increasing rural
poverty, through a holistic approach which will enable young men and women to
increase their income through agri-business.
As
the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, you will be the lead technical
staff responsible for program level monitoring, evaluation and reporting of
performance and results, lead efforts to strengthen MEAL within specific
projects including building the capacity of project staff to monitor, document
and analyse the performance of their interventions/activities and ensure data
quality.
You
will also be responsible for development and implementation of continuous
quality improvement systems to ensure ongoing program improvement and reaching
of targets and ensure program data is tracked, verified and reported and
supporting documentation is maintained.
As
an experienced Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning professional, you will
have a degree in development studies or any other relevant degree and minimum
of five (5 )years’ work experience in knowledge management, monitoring and
evaluating programs with an organization with a robust M&E component, experience
of using indicators at output, outcome and goal level and developing tools to
measure this, strong experience in evaluation methodologies such as outcome
mapping and Most Significant Change, experience of building in gender and
inclusion into project design and MEAL aspects, experience in quantitative and
qualitative data collection and management, experience in gathering learnings
and then promoting their application and experience of building capacity of
staff on MEL.
A
detailed Job Profile can be DOWNLOADED HERE.
How to
Apply
If
you are ready for an exciting challenge with an organisation whose mission and
values are particularly relevant in these rapidly changing times, please
forward your application, curriculum vitae and cover letter to:
Practical
Action, Kenya Office by email: recruitment@practicalaction.or.ke
no
later than 2nd February, 2023 indicating ‘Practical Action: Job Title Position’
in the subject line of the email.
Your
cover letter should outline why you feel this is the position for you and you
are the right candidate.
Please
include the names of 3 referees in your CV.
Additional
Information
Practical
Action is an equal opportunities employer and we encourage applications from
under-represented groups.
We
stay committed to cultivating an inclusive and diverse working environment and
believe that people from different backgrounds or cultures give us different
perspectives, and the more perspectives we have, the more successful we will
be.
By
building a culture where everyone feels heard, respected and valued we give
everyone working with us the opportunity to achieve their full potential.
Practical
Action is committed to safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable
adults and as such candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks.
The
successful applicant must have the pre-existing right to both live and work in
Kenya.
Applications
will be reviewed on a rolling basis
Only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted.