Medair Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer Jobs in Kenya

Medair Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer Jobs in Kenya

Overall Purpose:

Working as an important member of a diverse team who are committed to serve the world’s most vulnerable with practical and compassionate care, the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer works to ensure that monitoring, evaluation and learning systems are consistently integrated and implemented throughout Medair’s programme activities.

This involves supporting programme teams to use M&E systems and making use of innovative technology such as ODK to collect, aggregate and analyse data; integrating beneficiary accountability plans and activities into Medair’s programmes; and playing a key role in ensuring that the reporting needs of key stakeholders are met.

Project Overview:

Emergency nutrition and WASH assistance to drought affected communities in Marsabit County including: Health and Hygiene Promotion, Nutrition, Water and Sanitation, and NFI distributions across outreach locations. Medair’s goal is to assist in improving health, nutrition and water and sanitation conditions for vulnerable people in Marsabit County.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Monitoring and Evaluation

Assist in designing and implementing data collection activities such as needs assessments and post distribution monitoring.

Assist in designing nutrition database capturing key performance indicators for Marsabit project.

Train relevant projects’ staff on M&E tools, data collection and analysis.

Ensure the collection of good quality data to reflect the progress of programming by supervising data collection teams.

Actively participate in the lessons learned discussions with the field sector advisors, project managers and field teams for improvement of data collection activities and project design adjustments if necessary

Beneficiary Accountability

Work with field teams to promote principles and practices of beneficiary accountability by ensuring timely reporting of the beneficiary feedback and consolidation before sharing with the AAP focal point.

Communications

Provide analysis of data in a timely manner for internal monitoring and donor reporting, writing project reports as required.

Develop and maintain a transparent, honest, and supportive communication structure with other team members as well as with other Medair staff to uphold a spirit of unity and mutual respect.

Attend and participate in relevant working groups such as Nutrition Technical forums.

Quality Management

Coordinate the technical aspects of field M&E operations such as obtaining latest population data to enable project beneficiaries calculations.

Maintain robust records of all collected data to provide a clear and transparent account of performance and take immediate action in areas of poor performance.

Delegated Responsibilities

Train project field team members on M&E and survey methodologies such as LQAS and cluster sampling as part of staff capacity

building

Oversee data entry process by designing data entry templates (when necessary) and supervise data clerk(s) during data entry.

Analyse, present data as well as communicate assessment findings with field teams.

Person Specification:

Qualification / Experience

Degree in public health, statistics, or a related field

Post graduate training and experience in monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian programmes using qualitative and quantitative data collection methods is desirable

Work experience

4 years of experience in data analysis and communication including report writing

3 years of experience managing a humanitarian M&E including health, WASH, and nutrition data.

Languages

Good English (spoken and written)

IT

Microsoft Office— Demonstrated proficiency in using Excel & SPSS

Able to use and programme ODK derived products

Proficiency using SMART –ENA software and ODK usage to collect data is desirable

Competencies:

Team building

Good communicator

Team-player with good inter-personal skills

Experience of cross-cultural communication is desirable

Adaptability

Capacity to work under pressure and manage personal stress levels.

Initiative taker, able to plan and organise own workload.

Creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner

Able to cope with basic living conditions in the field and during field trips

Technical expertise

Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation standards and survey methodology

Able to establish and maintain systems to measure / compile / analyse data for project management.

Ability to communicate monitoring and evaluation principles and to train others

Ability to process and synthesise large amounts of complex data into readable and concise formats against tight deadlines.

Excellent report writing skills.

Ability to target different audiences and tailor output accordingly.

Knowledge and understanding of humanitarian standards such as Sphere and HAP

Work conditions: The staff member will be based in Marsabit. The work requires various field trips to remote areas of Marsabit County.

How to Apply

Interested candidates are required to submit:

Detailed and updated C.V.

Cover letter describing how you consider yourself suitable against the main responsibilities. Please also include your remuneration requirements and availability date.
Submit your application to recruitment-ni@medair.org with the subject of the email as *“Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer’’

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