Overview
The Senior Manager Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (ME&L) will be a compelling leader and leading expert in the field of evaluation, able to foster and steer high quality initiatives at AWARD. He/she shall oversee the monitoring, progress review and assessment of Outcomes for AWARD interventions and activities. He/she will work closely with the Programs, Training and Communications Units at AWARD to provide technical support on knowledge generation and dissemination of best practices. The Senior Manager ME&L will develop and manage ME&L plans, shape the learning agenda, design frameworks, tools, and/or toolkits and coordinate the implementation of ME&L systems to track progress on the achievement of outcomes and impact. He/she will also advise on the program/project’s overall approach and support the design, planning, implementation and reporting on various projects/programs while also supporting the development of strategic partnerships and collaborative relationships.
Duties and responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Director AWARD, the Senior Manager ME&L will lead the generation, compilation, analysis, and dissemination of evidence and knowledge to increase AWARD’s visibility in the agricultural development space and AWARD’s influence of the social, gender-responsive and economic agenda in Africa’s agriculture.
More specifically, the Senior Manager, ME&L will:
- Lead the development, management and updating of AWARD ME&L tools, strategy/frameworks and systems;
- Coordinate the design, implementation and reporting of ME&L activities under the different AWARD initiatives and programs to track outcomes and impact;
- Integrate gender into AWARD ME&L systems and ensure the application of gender-responsive data collection and analysis methods;
- Provide technical backstopping for project/program’s progress tracking;
- Review and advise on project/program’s overall approach and adjustments, and prepare regular and ad hoc updates;
- Lead the development of gender-responsive indicators and ensure sex and age -disaggregated data is regularly generated, compiled, analysed and adequate recommendations are formulated;
- Support the implementation of quality assurance and control protocols and ensure internal consistency and validity of project/program’s monitoring checks to enable improved capturing and narration of programmatic results and impact;
- Contribute to technical donor reporting using appropriate formats;
- Contribute to proposal development and grants’ negotiations including design of high quality ME&L inputs, to ensure successful proposals;
- Contribute to the review of existing grants’ overall performance and indicators against achieved cumulative results and make useful recommendations for performance improvement;
- Facilitate inclusive and gender-responsive MEL and research approaches, processes, data and findings through capacity development of AWARD staff, and periodic meetings with partners and stakeholders;
- Coordinate the dissemination of findings/lessons learnt/best practices internally and externally through seminars, international conferences and other relevant forums;
- Supervise and coordinate unit staff members and consultants, including coaching and mentoring others in the unit and overall team;
- Serve as a member of the Senior management and support the strategy design, identification of strategic partnerships in the agricultural research and development sectors;
- Perform any other tasks as assigned.
Requirements
Person specification
The ideal candidate for the role of Senior Manager ME&L (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) should demonstrate the following qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience:
Education
- Master's degree or higher in a relevant field such as Monitoring and Evaluation, Development Studies, Social Sciences, or related disciplines.
Knowledge and experience
- Relevant work experience in international agricultural sector of at least 10 years, with not less than 5 years in a management role for ME&L;
- Experience working in various countries on the African continent in the development/agricultural sector.
- Extensive knowledge of gender and social inclusion analysis frameworks and in integrating gender into ME&L systems, including the identification of indicators to track gender specific outcomes and results;
- Demonstrated understanding of gender considerations in agriculture, social and policy-related issues, and opportunities for Africa’s agricultural development;
- Sound expertise in Monitoring and Evaluation and Reporting of international donor-funded programs/initiatives;
- Extensive knowledge of gender-responsive ME&L concepts/systems/approaches, research design, data management, quality assurance and control procedures;
- Experience in developing different project/program logic tools such as the Theory of Change, Logical framework and Results framework
- Ability to establish goals and priorities, to plan, coordinate and effectively monitor tasks, milestones and target achievements;
- Sound experience in technical/donor reporting, knowledge management, capacity building and facilitation;
- Track record of published ME&L studies/reports and information products and dissemination to various audiences;
- Ability to forge and maintain effective working relationships with staff members, partners and stakeholders;
- Excellent command of the English Language, knowledge of French language is an added advantage;
- Ability to work independently and proactively as a team member; and
- Ability to understand expectations, work with competing deadlines and strong commitment to personal and organizational accountability.
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