Monitoring Learning And Evaluation Advisor Jobs In Nigeria June-July, 2012
Employment Nigeria
01-Jan-1970
NIGERIA , NIGERIA ,
MERCY CORPS RECENT VACANCIES
JOB TITLE: MONITORING LEARNING AND EVALUATION ADVISOR
JOB CODE: 218125-927
JOB LOCATION: ABUJA
JOB DESCRIPTION
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT SUMMARY:
- Mercy Corps works almost exclusively in fragile and conflict-affected environments. While we recognize that these are difficult places to operate, we believe that transitional environments – countries affected by civil wars, economic and political crisis, or natural disasters – offer tremendous opportunities for positive change. We currently implement over 30 integrated peacebuilding and economic development programs in some of the world’s toughest places, including Ethiopia, Liberia, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda.
- Contingent upon award, Mercy Corps anticipates starting a new integrated peacebuilding and economic development program in the Middle Belt states of Nigeria. Starting in August, this three-year program will incorporate strong economic development and natural resource management elements in order to address underlying drivers of conflict and build cooperation between conflicting communities and build links between communities, private sector and governmental processes.
GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:
- The Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Advisor will provide leadership, in collaboration with the Program Manager and the Country Director, in all aspects of monitoring, evaluation and information management. The MEL Advisor will contribute to program planning to ensure adherence to Mercy Corps’ standards, including the use of standardized indicators and documentation methodologies.
- Throughout the life of the program, s/he will be the senior leader responsible for cross-cutting programmatic information management within the framework of the program, monitoring and evaluation, ensuring that information collected is reflected upon, used for continuous improvement of ongoing programs, and is incorporated into consistently high quality reports. S/he will have responsibility for leading research efforts, networking with research agencies, documenting project impacts, and overseeing field-based M&E staff.
JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Technical Leadership
- Ensure that monitoring systems meet the requirements of the donor and that performance results can be used for continuous improvement.
- Adapt existing Mercy Corps monitoring tools, as well as propose new ways of measuring change through the use of both quantitative and qualitative data collection tools, analysis of secondary data, and, where appropriate, remote monitoring techniques.
- Coordinate internal and external reviews and lead the analysis of findings, with a strong emphasis on learning.
- As a strategic leader, actively participate in management meetings and country-wide strategy sessions.
- Strengthen staff capacity in qualitative and quantitative monitoring and evaluation tools through comprehensive staff training and coaching.
- Take the lead in aligning, collecting and reporting on relevant program indicators to the organizational-wide M&E system, Mission Metrics.
ACCOUNTABILITY :
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts towards accountability, specifically to our participants and to international standards guiding international relief and development work while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: MEL Project Team
ACCOUNTABILITY:
REPORTS DIRECTLY TO: Program Manager – Integrated Peacebuilding and Economic Development
WORKS DIRECTLY WITH: Mercy Corps, finance, and country representation departments in Abuja. The Program Manager works directly with relevant Mercy Corps headquarters units as necessary, including Mercy Corps’ Conflict Management Group and Economic and Market Development team and various administrative/financial units.
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
- Postgraduate degree in development studies, research methods, statistics, social sciences, measurement and evaluation, project planning and management or other relevant field preferred.
- Minimum 3-5 years of active M&E work experience in development programming required ideal candidate will have both theoretical and practical background in M&E and skilled in qualitative and quantitative M&E methodologies and techniques.
- Familiarity and experience with both peacebuilding programming and either economic development or natural resource management programming, preferably in insecure or transitional environments and/or in West Africa.
- Familiarity with the Nigerian context is a plus
- Knowledge of major aspects of program development, implementation and documentation and excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
- Excellent computer skills, including experience with: Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Epi-Info, Epi-Data, SPSS, Access, SQL, and any other statistical packages.
- Demonstrated understanding of intermediate and advanced statistics and the ability to summarize, generalize, and make predictions from large data sets.
- Ability to conceptualize, plan and implement program activities creatively, as well as possess the ability to analyze data and utilize lessons learned for the continuous improvement of program implementation and to promote a culture of learning.
- Fluency in written and verbal English required.
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Closing Date : 17 / 08 /2012.
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