Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Plan International

THE ROLE

• The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer will be charged with the responsibility of coordinating and managing the monitoring and evaluation activities of Climate Proofing a Resilient Future project related for Plan Kenya in Turkana. The role has an assignment to drive project Data Quality Assurance and specific data requirements for projects/programmes as well as tracking and reporting on project outputs, outcomes and impact of the Climate Proofing a Resilient Future (CPRF) project interventions. The M&E Officer will enable documentation of project best practices, lessons learnt and project learning. He/She will work towards profiling Climate Proofing a Resilient Future work and impact stories. The M&E Officer is also responsible for overall coordination of consortium MERL activities. 

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

Qualifications/ skills / experience essential:

• Minimum of a University Degree in Social Science, Economics, statistics, development studies or any other related field from a recognized university. 
• At least 3 years of demonstrated successful coordination of M&E functions and experience 
• Experience in the application of MERL systems and frameworks including theory of change and logical frameworks 
• Experience coordinating and delivering on M&E frameworks and M&E Plans and/or project, evaluation or research management. 
• Experience with database design and management including advanced use of Excel for data analysis and digital collection and management software including Kobo Toolbox or equivalent (e.g. ODK, Taroworks, Poimapper). 
• Experience in building capacity / coaching of individuals, teams, or organisations in M&E system design, tool development digital data collection, quality checking, analysis, reporting
• Demonstrated experience on presenting and sharing complex data in clear ways (e.g. data visuals) and reporting on project data
• Experience working in multi-partner projects/consortiums

 Qualifications/ skills / experience desirable: 

• Experience working with refugee populations including conducting data collection or research with refugee populations. 
• Experience in climate change adaptation practice related to WASH, developing community-based adaptation, or integrating climate change issues into the design, monitoring, and evaluation of programs.
• Demonstratable knowledge of and experience with gender sensitive M&E and/or research design, performance monitoring, impact evaluation, and / or social and environmental research methodologies
• Use of analysis software such as SPSS, Stata, R, Epiinfo, Atlas-Ti, CSpro is an asset 
• Ability to work with others

Languages required

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Strong knowledge of Kiswahili.
• Ability to communicate in the local languages for Northern Kenya will be an added advantage