Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Center for Community and Health Development International

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Center for Community and Health Development International. Please ensure you read the job requirements before applying for this position.

The Center for Community and Health Development International is a non-discriminatory, non-governmental organization with a mandate to improve the health and quality of life of Nigerian’s rural children and women. CHAD was established in 2002 by a group of women from different religious and ethnic background in Gombe state, North East Nigeria.

For the extension of the ongoing project, CHAD therefore seek a competent person to fill below position:

Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Project type: Fixed
Duration: 12 months with possible extension

Job Description

• CHAD is looking for Monitoring & Evaluation Officer for our area office in Borno state, North-East Nigeria.
• The role of the Monitoring & Evaluation Officer is to establish and implement systems that promote evidence-based decision-making, program and project performance, and internal management.
• S/he will contribute to quality programming through supporting access to and use of relevant and timely information on program scale, relevance, and effectiveness.
• Within this context, the M&E officer will be providing technical support to the program staff pertaining to M&E and build capacity in the sector by identifying and supporting the implementation of effective, cost-efficient and meaningful M&E systems.
• The officer is to reports to the Head of the Program.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Line management for project staff leads the process to establish regional office program level M&E and accountability (Community Accountability Response Mechanism) systems.
• Lead the development of guidance and frameworks for the office procedures, policies and processes that assist in institutionalizing and supporting M&E.
• Participate in program design and proposal discussions, including the theory of change development, log frame design, and budgeting for M&E.
• Participate in the regional office for strategy discussions to ensure M&E remains a high priority in the Programme.
• Provide leadership, support to technical advisors, project, and area managers in planning and standardizing M&E across projects.
• Support project managers and coordinators through the development of data collection methodology and tools, and systems for on-going data analysis.
• Develop a data management system for Programme and M&E data.
• Ensure that monitoring data are fed into management decisions and used in Programme management.
• Lead internal improvement processes (M&E matrixes, Macro Log Frames etc.) according to need.
• Encourage and support the absorption of lessons and recommendations at the office, and emerging from various AO (grant reviews, after-action reviews, grant closures) and CO events (evaluations, assessments, technical visits, learning reviews)
• Facilitate data analysis and improving program staff data literacy (and usage of the institutional platform geared toward this) that supports strategic decision making.
• Encourage community meetings/orientations at the project start-up.
• Supervise and support in executing M&E plans, and Accountability systems of CHAD Int’l.

Qualifications

• At least 2-3 years’ experience in creating and leading the implementation of M&E systems for an NGO
• At least 3 years’ experience working in an emergency or post-conflict setting
• Thorough experience with and knowledge of principles and current approaches to monitoring and evaluation in relief and development programs, using both quantitative and qualitative methods
• Understanding of data and information needs for program management and decision making
• Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring and other formal and non-formal methods
• High-level English language proficiency (speaking, reading, writing) and the knowledge of native language (Hausa, Kanuri, Shuwa) is a plus
• Analytic and computer skills, including MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,)
• The knowledge of ODk tool for data collection will be an added advantage.
• Strong knowledge of Power BI, Commcare, Kobo Toolbox, SPSS, MySQL, R Language and Tableau is highly desired.

Personal Qualities and skills:

• Handling insecure environments
• Managing resources to optimize results
• Empowering and building trust
• Planning and delivering results

Application Closing Date

20th August, 2021.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should submit no more than 3-pages CV and Cover Letter in one document, addressing the position requirements to “Human Resource Officer” and submit to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the emai.

Note

• Application is strictly on the email provided. Only shortlisted applicant will be contacted.
• CHAD Intl is an equal opportunity employer.
• CHAD considers all applicants on the basis of merit without prejudice to sex, disability, religion, tribe among others.
• All employees of CHAD Int’l will to adhere to our Code of Conduct and the organizational values:  Dedicated, innovative, inclusive and accountable.