The Hivos East Africa Regional Office
is looking to fill the position of a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer within
the Green Foods and Productive Landscapes portfolio.
Vacancy Name: 4S @scale Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Number of hours: 40
hours per week
Region: East Africa
Office: Nairobi
Hivos is an international development organisation with long-standing
experience in development programs that seeks new solutions to persistent and
emerging global issues.
With smart projects in the right
places, we oppose discrimination, inequality, abuse of power and the
unsustainable use of our planet’s resources.
Our primary focus is achieving
structural change and impacting lives. We do this through cooperating with
innovative businesses, citizens, governments, and development organisations
across four continents.
Overview of the position: The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer works under the supervision of the Program Manager, Green Foods and Productive Landscapes and hierarchically reports to the Regional Director.
Overview of the position: The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer works under the supervision of the Program Manager, Green Foods and Productive Landscapes and hierarchically reports to the Regional Director.
She/He will provide strategic
guidance and technical support for monitoring and evaluation within the
Sustainable and Secure Smallholder Systems @Scale program (4S @Scale) and
limited support to the Gender and Generational Empowerment program.
These two programs are large public
private partnerships currently being implemented in East Africa.
The programs mainly focus on
increasing the business viability of smallholder coffee farmers while also
mainstreaming gender and youth into partner operations and
implementation.
The successful candidate will work
closely with M&E experts, and program staff in the Hivos regional
office.
The position is based in Nairobi with
regular travel in the region and may involve some international travel.
Specific Roles and Responsibilities
Specific Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide technical direction and strategic
advice to ensure that the programs’ M&E activities are designed and
implemented in line with the agreed monitoring and evaluation framework,
and defined results in compliance with donor requirements.
- Develop, test and implement participatory
approaches for monitoring and evaluation at community, project and
organisational levels
- Contribute to the development and use of
livelihood, gender, and impact indicators for evaluating the outcomes and
impacts of our program related interventions, technologies, and policies.
- Carry out data collection and analysis and
undertake impact assessment in our projects using qualitative and
quantitative methods. This includes training of enumerators, quality
assurance standards and checks.
- Manage and regularly update and maintain
baseline and M&E databases; including working with the institutional
M&E officers to incorporate M&E indicators into the overall data
platform for systems analysis and synthesis, to inform strategic decision
making.
- Ensure that M&E activities integrate
global best practices in measurement of program results Design/monitor/
modify performance reporting tools.
- Assess the M&E capacity gaps/needs of the
program staff and partners offer regular capacity development and set up
systems to counter these gaps.
- Undertake regular and rigorous monitoring and
evaluation of program results according to established timelines, and
design reporting and data collection formats/templates to consolidate data
and information from partners for internal and external reporting.
- Coordinate and compile required program
reports, success stories and lessons learned. This includes dissemination
of publications (e.g. annual reports, policy briefs, book chapters,
journal articles etc) generated from the programs to wider audiences.
- Plan, coordinate and participate in regular,
independent evaluations by external and internal evaluators.
- Ensure that all service provider contracts
include specifications for the internal monitoring required of them, the
reporting systems and the penalties for failure to report as specified.
Minimum Requirements
- MSc. in Agricultural or Development Economics,
Statistics or a related discipline – that must contain significant content
relating to monitoring & evaluation.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in
monitoring and evaluation at household, community and organisational
levels.
- Good understanding of Impact, Monitoring and
Evaluation theory and applications extending to study design, quantitative
and qualitative analytic methods.
- Familiarity with coffee farming systems and
gender mainstreaming.
- Good analytical skills and extensive
experience of using statistical packages for data analysis (SPSS, STATA,
Excel, Nvivo).
- Experience in producing high quality project
reports, training manuals and publications.
- Ability to work effectively in multi-regional
teams and partners with members drawn from a diverse range of
nationalities, cultures and scientific disciplines.
- Ability to work under pressure, often to tight
deadlines without compromising the quality of deliverables.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and able to work
with little or no supervision.
- Strong English language skills, both written
and spoken.
- Willingness to travel frequently, often to
rural areas in East Africa.
- High level of personal integrity and
accountability.
Remuneration: Hivos offers a competitive salary and benefits
package
How to Apply
If you meet the requirements for the above position, please send a cover letter and your CV to jobs@hivos.or.ke with Subject as ‘4S @scale ME Officer” on or before 14h February, 2016
How to Apply
If you meet the requirements for the above position, please send a cover letter and your CV to jobs@hivos.or.ke with Subject as ‘4S @scale ME Officer” on or before 14h February, 2016
Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
