Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at Windle Trust Kenya

Windle International - Kenya is anticipating funding and plans to recruit two suitable candidates to fill the position of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officers based in Dadaab Refugee Camp and Kakuma Refugee Camp.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

The M&E officer will be responsible for designing and implementing the M&E activities of the Project; supporting the project team in data management and compilation of qualitative and quantitative reports and monitoring project activities.

In addition, the M&E Officer will:

• Contribute to the development of monitoring and impact indicators for the project’s success
• Assist in the development of databases of the project and ensuring data is organized in a logical manner for presentations and external consumption
• Support, design and develop qualitative and quantitative study instruments whenever required
• Train key programme staff in the use and management of data
• Participate in monitoring missions by donors to the field and provide technical and contextual information for purposes of verifying project performance
• Participate in the tracking of project beneficiaries receiving targeted support and advise on efficient and effective delivery
• Play a lead role in the management of data entry and cleaning tasks (verifying entries, confirming field details and analysis related to cleaning).
• Perform regular school visits to ensure the quality of data collected by the project
• Participate in the development of monthly, quarterly and annual reports

QUALIFICATIONS

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.
• Proven experience with M&E methods and approaches, planning and implementation of M&E systems, information/data analysis and report writing in education programmes
• 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
• Excellent computer skills including use of M & E Software: SPSS, STATA or Epi Info
• Experience in designing tools and strategies for data collection, analysis and production of reports