Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at Food for the Hungry (FH Kenya)

To support programs in FH Kenya through the development, implementation and monitoring of a sound M&E frame work.

Monitoring & Evaluation Officer Job Responsibilities

Monitoring and evaluation needs assessment

• To determine information needs of project management, implementing partners and primary stakeholders, and funding agencies.
• To identify and design performance questions, key indicators and targets for each project component.
• Reviewing the relevance of existing social and economic data for the project area.
• Creating the TOR, designing and costing out a baseline survey and a needs assessment survey (as appropriate);
• Reviewing existing M&E and management information systems of each project and identify needs for support.

Data management and reporting

• To collect, compile and analyze data and reports and create consolidated progress reports.
• To support establishment of data collection systems within programs when requested/review existing data collection tools on regular basis.
• Reviewing monitoring reports and asses interim impacts and causes of potential bottlenecks in implementation.
• To support teams, review and reflect on project implementation processes to enhance learning and replication of best practices
• To support staffs to comply with set M&E systems and ensure timely update of M&E software.

M&E information sharing

• To guide and supervise organizations/individuals that are sub-contracted to implement special surveys or studies required for evaluating project effects and impacts.
• To provide training on M&E and facilitate M&E design and implementation processes with implementing partners and primary stakeholders.
• To provide support to implement the M&E plan, revise and update performance questions, indicators, methods, formats and analytical processes.
• Verifying performance information provided by program teams to ensure accuracy
• To enhance community M&E mechanisms/structures through participatory processes and follow up on project quality implementation through regular project field visits
• Capacity strengthening of communities and staff on M&E
• To strengthen the capacity of project implementing staff on M&E.
• To assess the capacity of communities in implementation of M&E activities
• To strengthen the capacity of local implementing committees and partners on Participatory Monitoring and evaluation.

Qualifications for the Monitoring & Evaluation Officer Job

• Bachelors’ degree – in Social Science, Statistics, project management, community development or a related field, and at least three years’ experience in an NGO set up.
• A strong Christian committed to serving the poor.
• Experience in community participatory methodologies such as PRA, PUA, Rapid Appraisals, Barrier analysis Gender analysis etc.
• Strong facilitation skills
• Strong analytical and report writing skills
• Good understanding of project planning, implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation processes.
• Good contextual knowledge of local issues, community priorities, organizational relationships, social and cultural constraints and realities, and environmental condition.
• knowledge of statistical computer packages e.g. SPSS, EPI-INFO etc.
• Knowledge on use of mobile data collection applications
• Proficient in MS Office Suite and highly organized and able to multitask.