Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT)

Job Purpose:

The overall purpose of this job is to support the organization in monitoring and evaluation of the organization’s programmes and projects through using and maintaining sound M&E systems, databases and tools and ensuring they are functioning appropriately.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems for the organization and for BvAT programmes are in place and functioning satisfactorily.
• Develop data collection tools and ensure their effective use by programme managers and co-implementing partners.
• Participate in the development and use of results matrix by co-implementing partners to capture all the relevant aspects of programmes and projects.
• Provide technical support to organization and co-implementing partners in development and use of realistic work plans and work schedules.
• Provide technical support to co-implementing partners to ensure effective and efficient project implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Provide technical support in data collection, management, analysis and interpretation to aid decision-making.
• Ensure that the M&E databases are optimally used to store, analyse and present relevant information to the organization, donors and other key stakeholders.
• Undertake Data Quality Audits (DQA) for quality and reliable information and decision making.
• Monitor programme and project activities, outputs and progress towards the anticipated results and report on the findings.
• Support the project managers in the preparation of quarterly, bi-annual and annual progress reports.
• Document findings via case studies and lessons learnt to provide advice to the management for scale up and improvement.
• Undertake any other relevant tasks that may be assigned by the supervisor.

Working Relationships

Internal Relationships: Executive Director, Project Managers and other staff.
External Relationships: Country Implementing Partners of BvAT regional programmes, Consultants, Organic Agriculture member organisations, etc.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Economics and/or Project Management.
• A course/certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Minimum of at least 5 years of experience in the field of M&E.Additional qualification in IT or Computer Science with hands-on ICT skills is a must.

Required Skills and Competencies:
Technical Skills

• Data management
• Knowledge in use of mobile data collection tools and analytical software like STATA
• Report writing skills.
• Computer literacy

Behavioural Skills

• Fluency in oral and written Swahili and English
• Have strong relationship management.
• Excellent time management.
• Team player with excellent negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Planning skills

Responsibility for finances and physical assets:

• The jobholder has accountability for the laptops and office assigned furniture.

Decision making:

• The jobholder has no final authority on key decisions in the department other than routine decisions related to execution of work.

Information:

• The job holder has access to confidential information – Bio data such as age, level of education, Income, etc, of stakeholders.

Working Environment:

• The job is office based with minimum travels to partner countries and field offices in Kenya.