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Position Description
Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor
Department: Programs
Reports To: Program Director HOPE
Location: Nairobi
Revised Date: 29th October 2012
Position Description
Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor
Department: Programs
Reports To: Program Director HOPE
Location: Nairobi
Revised Date: 29th October 2012
Job Summary
The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor manages all monitoring and evaluation activities for a USAID-funded program which seeks to carry out school and community-based HIV/AIDS prevention activities in approximately 400 primary and secondary schools in the informal urban settlements within Nairobi Province and its environs as well as provide M&E guidance to CHF Kenya’s other programs.
The M&E Advisor is responsible for ensuring data quality management, data aggregation, accurate and timely reporting, training staff and partners in data collection tools, and ensuring proper usage and implementation of M&E tools and methodologies.
S/he is also responsible for maintaining the projects databases, running regular reports, and responding to ongoing needs and queries for specific data and/or reports.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop and implement the program M&E plan to ensure program activities are tracked, reviewed in line with the overall goal and implementation plan and have the desired impact to achieve program goals and objectives
- Lead efforts to monitor progress, evaluate effectiveness, and disseminate results of the program activities
- Ensure program learning agendas are developed and followed
- Develop, train on and monitor use of monitoring and evaluation tools to track program activities, outcomes and impact
- Ensure adherence to compliance of M&E methodology and systems using developed tools and indicators
- Build M&E competencies of program staff and partner M&E staff through training and technical assistance to ensure accurate data collection, monitoring, data analysis and interpretation and reporting
- Design, provide technical input, supervise and participate in program evaluations including mid-term and end term evaluations.
- Advise Program Directors and Country Director on M&E-related procedures and policy training activities
- Meet program M&E deliverables on time.
- Help ensure quality performance of technical efforts and field activities by coordinating programmatic reporting, quality of data management and information
- Conduct regular visits to worksites to monitor the development and implementation of M&E activities
- Support the documentation of program learning throughout the life of the program
- Contribute information and articles to the M&E happenings newsletter
- Manage program databases and run regular reports to monitor progress including Program Tracker.
- Adhere to and incorporate into day-to-day operations the CHF Kenya office Standards of Professionalism
- Maintain strict confidentiality of all privileged information regarding both human resources and fiscal matters
- Assist with any other duties as required by Supervisor
- The duties listed above are not inclusive of all your duties at CHF International. CHF reserves the right to change and update position descriptions at any time.
Education and Qualifications
- Advanced degree in M&E or its equivalent
Skills and Experience
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience in managing and reporting the applications of quantitative and qualitative information management methods of local and international projects
- Demonstrated experience and capacity in managing information systems and the application of quantitative and qualitative methods
- Experience with HIV prevention programming among young people is a plus
- Familiar with reporting through KePMS, preferred.
- Knowledge of youth appropriate M&E approaches a plus
- Proven knowledge and experience utilizing applications for the design, monitoring and evaluation of projects
- Strong computer skills and a working knowledge of statistical software
- Ability to develop and maintain positive relationships with professional contacts
- Demonstrate flexibility, cultural sensitivity when working with NGO partners, and the ability to adapt CHF policies and procedures to the local context
- A person of known integrity
- Demonstrate the ability to work constructively in a team
- Ability to negotiate solutions to problems
- Superior written and verbal communication skills and strong organizational skills
- Ability to interact clearly and effectively with donors and other organizations
Language Skills
- Excellent command of English language including written and spoken English
- Effective use of written and spoken Kiswahili
Working Conditions
- Based in the Nairobi office; travel outside of Nairobi as required to perform duties
- Able to sit at a computer and operate a keyboard, for extended periods of time
The deadline for applications is 23 November 2012.
Application letters with detailed CV should be sent to vacancies@chfkenya.org.
Only short listed firms/candidates will be contacted. CHF is an equal opportunity employer.
Application letters with detailed CV should be sent to vacancies@chfkenya.org.
Only short listed firms/candidates will be contacted. CHF is an equal opportunity employer.
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