Monitoring and Evaluation Manager at Palladium International

This Opportunity

The Feed the Future Kenya Investment Mechanism (KIM) Program is a five-year project that will unlock financing and investment by addressing two principal market failures that have discouraged investors from financing certain segments of the clean energy and agriculture sectors: 1) insufficient quality consulting services (financial, transaction advisory, strategy and business performance), and 2) limited availability of financial products tailored to agriculture and clean energy.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Manager will lead the effort of collecting and analyzing data that will ultimately evaluate the impact of USAID’s intervention to facilitate significant and new investment. S/he will be responsible for tracking and aggregating all project data to support the team in evaluating the project’s progress.

Reporting And Supervision

• The Monitoring and Evaluation Manager will report to the Deputy Chief of Party

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Assist in developing the project’s M&E plan which includes PMP and knowledge management and learning plan
• Coordinate the finalization of the AMELP, AMP, and QASP
• Support technical teams in collecting, aggregating, and analyzing baseline data in the first several months of the project
• Advise in the designing and planning for evaluations, studies and assessments, ensuring there are adequate financial resources.
• Coordinate Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) efforts throughout the life of the project at regular intervals to review and encourage use of data in resource allocation decision by technical team members
• Support the review and completion process for all project deliverables
• Maintain impeccable M&E files and substantiating information on data reported to USAID on the project’s shared drive that can be easily accessible by project team members and available for project auditors (i.e. accurate, updated, etc.)
• Coordinate collection and compilation of information on quarterly, annual and life of project indicators and outputs from team leaders, and progress toward planned activities
• Finalize and continuously update progress against the project’s Performance Management Plan (PMP), and maintain all files related to substantiating progress against PMP performance indicators
• Respond to requests for information on the project and on project performance as needed
• Enter required training-related data into the US Government’s TraiNet software
• Work closely with technical unit heads to track investment portfolio information and progress
• Support the Opportunities team in tracking performance on policy reform efforts to align with USAID policies and requirements.

Key Competencies Required

• Master’s degree or higher in business administration, international development, economics, statistics, or a related field
• Minimum five years (seven preferred) of professional experience in performance monitoring and/or evaluation role within an international development organization.
• Experience designing and overseeing M&E data collection and reporting for economic growth/financing projects preferred.
• USAID or other international donor experience required
• Demonstrated ability to implement, operationalize, and manage information collection and assessment systems
• Demonstrated ability to create and manage information databases using appropriate software applications
• Ability to work in team environment and work with and train non-direct reports to implement initiatives
• Strong writing, reporting, and presentational skills