Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Practical Action Kenya

About the role 

Practical Action is commencing a five-year project that will be implemented in Kisumu, Homabay, Siaya, Migori, Nyamira, Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia and Vihiga Counties.  The project aims to make agriculture an attractive and resilient employer for young people by promoting agricultural livelihoods for the youth underpinned by agro-ecological principles and practices. The project aims to break the cycles of low productivity and increasing rural poverty, through a holistic approach which will enable young men and women to increase their income through agri-business.

As the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, you will be the lead technical staff responsible for program level monitoring, evaluation and reporting of performance and results, lead efforts to strengthen MEAL within specific projects including building the capacity of project staff to monitor, document and analyse the performance of their interventions/activities and ensure data quality. You will also be responsible for development and implementation of continuous quality improvement systems to ensure ongoing program improvement and reaching of targets and ensure program data is tracked, verified and reported and supporting documentation is maintained.

As an experienced Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning  professional, you will have a degree in development studies or any other relevant degree and minimum of five (5 )years’ work experience in knowledge management, monitoring and evaluating programs with an organization with a robust M&E component, experience of using indicators at output, outcome and goal level and developing tools to measure this, strong experience in evaluation methodologies such as outcome mapping and Most Significant Change, experience of building in gender and inclusion into project design and MEAL aspects, experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection and management, experience in gathering learnings and then promoting their application and experience of building capacity of staff on MEL.

Experience & Knowledge Essential

Desirable

• Bachelors’ degree in Development Studies or any other relevant degree and minimum of 5 years’ work experience in knowledge management, monitoring and evaluating programs with an organization with a robust M&E component.
• Strong technical skills including use of PowerBI or Tableau
• Experience of using indicators at output, outcome and goal level and developing tools to measure this
• Strong experience in evaluation methodologies such as outcome mapping and Most Significant Change
• A passion and experience of building in gender and inclusion into project design and MEAL aspects
• Successful track record of implementing effective MEL systems, including experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection and management.
• Experience in gathering learnings and then promoting their application
• Experience of building capacity of staff on MEL
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills to understand the range and content of the organization’s thematic work and provide practical solutions to operational challenges.
• Commitment to and ideally an understanding of safeguarding