Monitoring Lead at Chemonics International

Responsibilities Will Include

The Monitoring Lead will lead and deliver monitoring activities for the abovementioned programmes, lead and oversee context monitoring, and support identification and management of operational learning.

• Develop and oversee monitoring workplans throughout the programme’s operation;
• Develop and oversee monitoring protocols, processes, and input into SPPMEL data ethics, protection, and management manuals;
• Implement accountability mechanisms at field level, e.g. complaints and feedback response mechanisms –assessment, design, implementation, and review;
• Manage field coordinators, provide timely management of enumerators, and ensure quality data is collected;
• Manage remote monitoring activities, ensuring timely collection of data and alignment with other monitoring engagements;
• Work with the team leader to liaise with programmes being monitored and ensure timely notification for stakeholders prior to monitoring engagements;
• Ensure monitoring activities adhere to and follow data security and ethics protocols;
• Support analysis of monitoring data and support in developing analytical reports and products, and support client briefings on monitoring findings;
• Ensure all monitoring data is cleaned and safely stored in information management platforms;
• Provide capacity building and support to field coordinators and monitors on an as-needed basis;
• Implement activities to raise awareness of prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse and handling of serious complaints in line with applicable FCDO’s policies.

Qualifications

The qualifications for the Monitoring Lead include:

• At least 8 years’ experience leading and overseeing third or second party monitoring programmes.
• Experience designing and managing mixed methods and large-scale field data collection, including in person and remote quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews and focus groups.
• Experience in designing and managing remote monitoring mechanisms, including working with and managing remote monitoring teams.
• Experience interpreting results frameworks and LogFrames for FCDO programming.
• Demonstrable experience in managing large networks of enumerators across challenging geographies.
• Experience working with donor government departments or multilateral donors, FCDO desirable.
• Proven experience with or understanding of theory-driven evaluation approaches.
• Experience with aligning data to information management systems and software structures, familiarity with data visualisation tools (such as PowerBI, Tableau, Google Data Studio, etc.) is desirable but not essential;
• Qualitative and quantitative data interpretation skills and ability to condense, refine, and tailor large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data for external audiences;
• Experience of working in Somalia preferred;
• Previous experience living or working in fragile and conflict affected states an advantage.