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M&E Coordinator
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M&E Coordinator
GOAL’s Kenya’s country programme focuses on three of GOAL’s
strategic sectors: Health (including WASH), Livelihoods and Child Empowerment
and Protection.
We are progressively mainstreaming issues of HIV, gender, child
protection and environment across all our programming. GOAL works primarily
works through partnerships with local organizations to accomplish our mission.
GOAL Kenya’s (GK) current country programme includes:
- Nairobi
Urban Programme for Extremely Vulnerable Children and Youth (EVCY), including
health, water and sanitation, child protection and education. With the
onset of a new fiver year country strategic plan GK will maintain its work
in child protection and water and sanitation, but expand health
programmes to include adolescent health activities and initiate a renewed
focus on improving livelihoods for EVCYs and their families.
- Northern
Kenya Emergency Programme in Marsabit. This is a WASH and disaster risk
reduction programme in Marsabit Central District.
- Nakuru
Emergency and Post Conflict Programmes for IDPs displaced during the
post-election violence. This programme currently focuses on the
construction of transitional shelter for IDPs in the Nakuru area, but will
soon transition into development programming in Nakuru town.
General Description of the Role
Over the lifetime of the current strategic plan GOAL Kenya’s
country programme has grown to incorporate both emergency and development
programmes focused on health (including WASH), livelihoods, protection and
shelter.
The centrally based country M&E team provides support and
capacity for all GOAL’s programming in Kenya.
The MEL Coordinator is responsible for all the country programme
monitoring, evaluation and learning systems; and will be responsible for the
identification and induction of a national counterpart.
Specific Responsibilities
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Coordinator will
be responsible for the following objectives:
Coordinate the overall country monitoring systems
Coordinate the overall country monitoring systems
- Support
and carry out regular monitoring of standard indicators, activities and
outputs of projects;
- Maintain
the standard indicator databases per sector;
- Sampling
of data from the standard indicator database on a monthly basis in each
location for quality assurance purposes including sampling of partner
monthly reports, MOVs for quality assurance purposes;
- Support
project managers to identify and resolve monitoring problems at individual
project level;
- Ensuring
that mainstreaming issues mentioned above are included in the monitoring
system as appropriate;
- Work
with the Grants Manager and Project Managers to provide monthly and
quarterly graphic feedback to management of standard indicators for all
three sectors comparing information over time and between districts.
Coordinate the overall GOAL country evaluation systems
- Lead
and support the implementation of GOAL’s global M&E framework, GOAL
Kenya’s M&E strategic framework and the M&E Plans for HIV,
livelihoods and WASH interventions
- Revise,
update and improve GK M&E strategic framework and M&E plan
documents according to requirement
- Provide
technical support to the identification and management of external resources
to carry out or support MEL activities
- Establish
and keep up to date the consultants data base
- Directly
carry out, supervise and review all GOAL Kenya evaluations, surveys,
mid-term reviews
- Design
and carry out or supervise surveys (MICS, KAPBS and other surveys)
- Develop
links with GOAL’s Survey and M&E Coordinator from the GOAL Technical
Team
- Familiarise
self and team with implementation of GOAL’s standard surveys (MICS, KAPBs,
Causal Assessments etc), if necessary organizing training from the survey
advisor or other sources in consultation with the Advisor
- Ensure
surveys are carried out in line with the M&E plan and the GOAL
Framework
Working with Local Partners on M&E Systems
- Coordinate
the design and implementation of partner and other evaluations as required
under the strategies, revise tools and M&E strategy regularly
- Support
the development of an evaluation system that will provide information for
measuring outcomes and impact of GOAL Kenya’s support to partner
organizations and directly implemented projects, designing and carrying
out or supervising outcome evaluations across all projects and programmes.
M&E systems development of partners may be accompanied by systems
benchmarks to track progress towards strengthened systems.
- Training-
Lead the development and roll out of M&E capacity building plans of
local partner organisations, including by providing tools and resources to
partners.
- Liaise
with partners and team members to plan, design and implement and report on
annual thematic outcome evaluations and ensure the databases for same are
in place up to date and accurate
- Coordinate
the overall country learning systems
- As
part of the learning function, seek to identify learning points across the
range of work carried out and identify opportunities to share this
learning through meetings, workshops, reports etc
- Evidence/learning
from Pilots: Give technical support to programmes in learning from
piloting new and alternative approaches
- Where
appropriate, share materials with GOAL’s best practice website
- Design
and carry out or supervise assessments, research exercises etc as
appropriate and possible support to programme development, monitoring,
evaluation and learning
- Design
and implement case studies across the programme
- Complete
one short article for each project each year
- Promote
strengthened understanding and capacities within project and programme
teams on MEL, and the use and /or analysis of MEL systems at the project
and partner levels
- ensure
that annual work plans are developed and monitored by the Senior
Management Team
Coordinate the overall country M&E Plan
- Keep
the overall country programme M&E plan updated on a monthly basis,
based on activities implemented, new project needs etc
- Through
regular liaison with and support to the Programme Managers,
Assistant/Country Director ensure that the M&E plan is implemented
- Liaise
with each Project Manager, Programme Manager and the Coordinator to check
progress on the implementation of M&E activities
- Develop
an individual detailed M&E plan for each project and monitor for
implementation and quality
- Identify
needs that each project has to support implementation of M&E
activities, provide mentoring training to teams in the field locations
Manage the MEL team and be active member of the Senior
Management Team (SMT)
- Manage
the MEL team to meet the above objectives, carrying out evaluation,
surveys etc as required by the priorities of the plan and available
capacities within the team
- Develop
and update the monthly and annual work plans for the MEL team to meet the
objectives of the M&E plan.
- Prepare
with team members monthly work plans and monitor their implementation.
- Provide
line manager with a monthly report on the implementation of the work plans
and achievement of objectives.
- Develop
performance management appraisal objectives with each member of the MEL
team, ensure objectives are SMART and reviewed and revised every six
months.
- Build
the technical and analytical capacity of the M&E officers throughout
the year
- Work
collaboratively with GOAL’s M&E Advisor & Roving MEL Coordinator
Knowledge Management
- •
Follow up mechanisms- Focus on insuring appropriate mechanism are in place
and maintained for the follow up of evaluation and tech team findings by
in country management with a view to maximising knowledge retention and
use.
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Databases- Ensure databases of programmes are kept up to date through an
efficient process and ensure data bases are accessible so that the
information can be used effectively.
Beneficiary & Other Stakeholder Accountability Mechanisms
- Assess
beneficiary accountability mechanisms in place and lead strengthening of
such mechanisms including through appropriately structure dissemination of
M&E findings
- Stakeholder
Accountability- Ensure a summary presentation of all evaluations
undertaken is prepared and rolled out in all locations and to partners as
appropriate and document the process. Ensure processes in place that make
feedback to beneficiary stakeholders systematic by partners and GOAL
Requirement
Essential:
- Masters
Degree in programme evaluation, business administration or related field
- 5
years + programme related experience in international development
- 3+
years specific M and E Management experience
- Good
computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Access and statistical software packages)
- Good
demonstratable writing skills in English
- Strong
research and analytical skills
- Excellent
communication skills (written and spoken)
- Demonstrated
ability to facilitate training and capacity building for staff
- Ability
to embark on regular travel from Nairobi to other fields sites in Kenya
Desirable
- Relevant
postgraduate degree
- Experience
working with community based development projects
- Experience
in similar positions with an international NGO
To apply for the above positions, please send your CV by email,
listing three references including your last direct supervisor and salary
expectation to keapplications@ke.goal.ie.
Please put the job title in the subject line of the email. This
is a local position.
The closing date for all applications is Thursday 25th Oct 2012.
The closing date for all applications is Thursday 25th Oct 2012.
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
Those who applied earlier need not reapply.
Goal is an equal opportunity employer, qualified male and female applicants are encouraged to apply.
Goal is an equal opportunity employer, qualified male and female applicants are encouraged to apply.