For more than 50
years, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has been a key player in African
Conservation and sustainable development.
Program Officer,
Monitoring and Evaluation
Key Responsibilities
This person will be
responsible for overall monitoring and evaluation within AWF.
They will be
required to implement together with Program Operations team, the AWF
Performance Measurement System and will coordinate impact reporting as well as
evaluation studies for the AWF program.
They will also act as
the point person for M& E for the Kenya Program.
This position will
also work with the AWF program team to refine methodologies and tools for
livelihood impact monitoring and ensure a good fit between the livelihoods
monitoring indicators and the overall AWF Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
system.
Working with Heartland
teams, the successful candidate will identify priority sites for conducting
livelihoods impact monitoring, provide leadership for implementing the
monitoring process, timing and priority indicators with partners and partner
communities; pilot and/or implement AWF livelihoods impact monitoring protocols
and methodology in key field sites, ensure sound evaluation of and learning
from impact findings; undertake baseline and monitoring surveys in target
sites, analyze and discuss findings, prepare reports and agree on ongoing
monitoring frameworks; facilitate team learning from findings of monitoring
surveys and present findings within AWF and at other forums as requested.
S/he will provide
support for developing and implementing field program/project M&E systems
in Heartlands; develop databases to improve management of data from M&E
systems across the organization, build capacity of Program and Heartland teams
to undertake ongoing monitoring; liaise with other organizations to share tools
and lessons learned.
This position will be
based in AWF’s Headquarter office in Nairobi, Kenya and will report to the Vice
President, Program Operations.
The successful
candidate will;
- Have a
Master’s degree in Economics, Sociology or a development related field.
- Have at
least 5 years relevant experience of applied socio-economics work and/or
research at field level in conservation and/or development in Africa,
including direct experience of field based monitoring & evaluation
(M&E) framework design and data collection.
- Have
good understanding of evaluation approaches and practice, international
discourse on livelihoods and poverty reduction in relation to conservation
and sustainable use of natural resources and solid experience in
participatory approaches to M&E.
- Have
advanced information technology skills including the use of data analysis
software e.g. SPSS; knowledge of GIS technology is an added advantage.
- Have
strong interest in and understanding of conservation. Be willing to travel
to remote areas and ability and experience in field training on M&E.
- Excellent
communication skills (writing and presentation skills).
- Have
outstanding interpersonal skills.
- Be
fluent in English and Kiswahili. French competency will be an added
advantage.
If you are interested in this position, please send a cover
letter and your detailed CV indicating daytime telephone numbers, address and
names of three referees with subject ”M&E”, to jobs@awf.org.
Only shortlisted
candidates shall be contacted.
Closing Date: September 15, 2012
For further
information on the position and AWF, please visitwww.awf.org/jobs