Monitoring & Evaluation Officer (Kajiado) at St John’s Community Centre

St John’s Community Centre is seeking professionals with the required qualifications and experience to fill in the following vacancies

Key Responsibilities

• Establishing, maintaining and ensuring effective utilization of the Project Monitoring and Evaluation System.
• This includes developing the M&E plans; managing the CPIMS database system; commissioning surveys to ensure project has appropriate baseline and end-line data on the OVC situation;   ensure proper data collection, entry and analysis procedures, storage and appropriate use of data to track program performance;
• Responsible for capacity building and supervising data clerks, community resource persons and project officers for compliance to M&E requirements; setting up a system for quality assurance and Quality improvement that incorporates beneficiaries;
• managing external M&E consultants;
• Responsible for documenting and disseminating M & E results, findings and sharing lessons learnt with Staff and relevant stakeholders;
• recommending project and system improvements based on evidence;
• supporting the  preparation of project reports  for submission to Coordinator, Management, partners and stakeholders.

Qualifications required

• A first degree in social sciences, social statistics, public health, or other related discipline from a recognised university.
• Comprehensive training in M & E and gender
• 4 years relevant working experience in Monitoring and Evaluation in a USAID funded project, preferably in integrated OVC Programming
• Demonstrated skills in M&E frameworks, systems development and development of data collection tools
• Experience in conducting trainings in M&E development.
• Field experience in data collection, analysis & quality assurance
• Computer proficiency in word processing, databases, spreadsheets, including advanced skills in at least two of the following programs: SPSS, Excel, Epi Info, Stata, SQL and Ms Access or any other relevant to OVC data manipulation
• Skills in research statistics, critical and analytical thinking, Good judgment and problem-solving skills are critical.
• Good understanding of OVC issues particularly HIV/AIDS, children and youth development and health, education and training, life-skills and household economic strengthening.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Fluency in both written and oral English and Kiswahili.