Monitoring Officer at Windle Trust Kenya

Location: Based in Nairobi with frequent travel to Kakuma and Dadaab

Contract term: 7 Months contract with possibility for extension

Ref: BPRM/38/18

BACKGROUND

• Increase access to extracurricular academic support programs for vulnerable refugee girls in upper primary, particularly girls with special needs and over-aged learners
• Enhance ability of teachers to deliver high-quality education using gender-responsive pedagogy and inclusive teaching methods
• Improve the accessibility of digital teaching and learning materials for secondary school students and teachers

The project works in Kakuma and Dadaab Refugee Camps and the surrounding host communities

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

The Monitoring and Evaluation officer shall be responsible for designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation activities of SHULE Project; supporting the project team in data management, compilation of qualitative and quantitative reports and monitoring project activities.

In addition, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer shall:

• Provide leadership support to project staff in all aspects of monitoring and evaluation for the SHULE project
• Review the SHULE project work plan and monitoring tool and ensure proper tracking of agreed performance indicators, targets and timelines for effective project delivery
• Assist in the development of data collection tools, ensuring the data is collected, organized and stored ready for internal and external consumption
• Participate in BPRM organizational/joint monitoring missions at designated project sites and provide technical and contextual information for the purpose of verifying project performance.
• Lead in the tracking academic progress and well-being of project beneficiaries for the purpose of reporting and taking appropriate remedial action where applicable.
• Provide monthly and quarterly narrative project implementation reports that describe in detail activities and progress achieved against agreed output level indicators for the reporting period

QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

The candidate should meet the following minimum requirements:

• A university degree in Social Sciences, Development studies, Statistics, Economics or related field, such as operations research, quantitative analysis, etc.
• 3 years proven experience with M&E methods and approaches, planning and implementation of M&E systems, information/data analysis and report writing
• Thorough familiarity with principles and current approaches to M&E using both quantitative and qualitative methods;
• Demonstrated M&E field experience: skilled in collecting, manipulating, synthesizing and analysing data
• Experience in designing tools and strategies for data collection, analysis and production of reports
• Experience in humanitarian education contexts shall be an added advantage.
• Basic knowledge of education issues in Africa, specifically the Great Lakes, East Africa and Horn of Africa South Sudan shall be an added advantage
• Excellent data analysis and report writing skills
• Proficiency in word processing, spreadsheet (preferably Microsoft Excel) and presentation software (Microsoft)
• Excellent inter-personal, facilitation skills and communication skills