Fresh Openings at Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

Job Description (Summary)

• The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEAL) Officer manages information and reporting processes and products to ensure professional, high-quality communication about ADRA
• Kenya’s TOGETHER programmatic activities and results. The MEL Officer will also play an essential role in improving information management and data quality and strengthening knowledge sharing and learning at the community level (through ColMEL) across the organization and with the international health and development communities. The MEL Officer
• will assume responsibility for full-cycle monitoring and evaluation of the TOGETHER project, developing appropriate methodologies and tools to design evaluations.

Specific Tasks
General M&E Tasks:

• Develop, implement, and assess monitoring frameworks for the TOGETHER projects.
• Develop the overall framework for project M&E systems in collaboration with the Project Manager, ADRA Canada, Salanga, including requirements, reporting, baseline, and annual survey and evaluation surveys; develop and monitor project management plan to systematically document performance
• Ensure the alignment of M&E activities with program goals
• Ensure adherence to specific monitoring and reporting requirements for GAC funded projects, including requirements related to Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation framework, Global Affairs Canada’s (GAC) Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) as well as other requirements under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Contribute to the development of the Program implementation Plan (PIP), annual work plans and detailed implementation plans (DIPs) to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities
• Develop and maintain indicator tracking tools; as well as databases and other tracking tools as needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of project the monthly database
• Analyse data for accuracy, flag validation or quality issues, and contribute to systemfixes, management decision-making and reporting
• Ensure timely development and submission of reports including progress reports including monthly and quarterly indicator performance reports for tracking progress against key indicators as needed
• Conduct field visits for data validation and to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets; coordinate data collection at project sites to monitor program development and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data; capture and document lessons learned, and champion the scaling up best practices.
• Edit content and presentation of all reporting and deliverables before submission to ensure superior quality and professionalism.
• Ensure timely submission of relevant MEAL documents as required by the donor

Other Tasks:

• Support in reviewing and refining the organizational level monitoring evaluation accountability and learning framework, including training project staff on M&E and community-led monitoring evaluation and learning approaches.
• Support the development, design, and writing of proposals and concept notes for related programming information management and reporting
• Perform other duties as deemed relevant to the assignment and advancement of the project objective by the supervisor

Education 

• University degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Demographics, Public Health, International Development, or any social science with additional training in Monitoring and Evaluation is preferred.

Experience 

• At least three (3) years’ experience in project
• implementation/management, with proven success in designing, implementing, and operating M&E systems from project initiation to close out.
• Extensive experience in strategic planning and performance management, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans Experience in planning and managing surveys, developing and refining
• data collection tools, and with data quality assessments and oversight Demonstrated experience in participatory processes and in facilitating dialogue among and between communities, development partners, the private sector, civil society, and government on sensitive matters
• A good understanding of the social-economic and environmental dynamics of the ASAL counties, of Kenya particularly, Turkana County

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Job Description (Summary)

• The Environment Officer will, in consultation with the Project Manager, plan and take the lead in the effective execution of the environment-related project activities for the program as outlined in the project proposal, which includes but is not limited to skills, practices and capacities geared towards enhancing Improved low carbon, climate resilient economies in Kitui
• Rural, Kitui County-Kenya for enhanced well-being of communities, especially women, girls, and other vulnerable groups.
• The Officer will be responsible for planning and implementing all program activities related to enhancing the adoption of gender-responsive nature-based solutions in targeted landscapes, especially by women, girls, and other vulnerable groups, for improved biodiversity and climate change adaptation.

Specific Tasks
General Tasks:

• Monitor and support timely and appropriate utilisation of budgeted resources for related project interventions and ensure effective and timely response plans.
• Take the lead in community mobilisation and sensitisation as per the planned nature- based solutions in targeted landscapes.
• Prepare the detailed project implementation and procurement plans for all (Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration) FMNR and Enrichment Planting (EP) training.
• Identify, verify and document the target project farmers.
• Design implementation strategies that are appropriate for the effective and quality implementation of the project activities.
• Plan and coordinate FMNR and Biodiversity cross-learning visits and open days.
• With a lead from the Project Manager, identify and map out the relevant stakeholders to the project and engage them as needed.
• Compile monthly, quarterly and annual reports as per donor guidelines and ADRA Policy.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to design appropriate/relevant training curricula as needed and targeted training modules.
• Coordinate with the Project manager to ensure that appropriate controls, monitoring and evaluation tools are in place and utilised promptly in the implementation process.
• Contribute to effective and timely implementation of all project environment activities.
• Fostering partnerships and networks with stakeholders. e.g. the government ministries, relevant civil society organisations and community-based groups.
• Prepare articles, stories and photographs that can be used to enhance the project’s image.

Other Tasks:

• Provide support in project communication to ensure that all stakeholders are informed on an ongoing basis about the project’s objectives and activities, overall project progress, and opportunities for involvement in various aspects of the project’s implementation.
• Ensuring that all relevant stakeholders are informed, aware of and supportive of the project goals and activities, and ADRA Kenya at large
• Ensure that all project targets are met within the set timelines.
• Accurately document all project inputs and activities and prepare timely and excellent reports.
• Conduct engagement activities with local, regional, and national stakeholders for policy change and impacts on the ground.
• Perform other duties as deemed relevant to the assignment and advancement of the project objective by the supervisor.

Education 

• Bachelor’s degree in Environment, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Horticulture,
• Climate Change Studies and/or Project Management or any other related area. 

Experience 

• in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) will be an added advantage.
• Experience At least three (3) years experience in project implementation, management, focusing on environmental conservation in ASALs, and documentation of lessons from project interventions.
• A good understanding of the social-economic and environmental dynamics of the ASAL counties of Kenya, particularly Kitui County

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Job Description (Summary)

• The Gender Officer’s role encompasses supporting women, youth and other vulnerable groups through knowledge and capacity development for enhanced adoption of gender-
• responsive nature-based solutions in targeted landscapes for improved biodiversity and climate change adaptation. The officer will work with women, men, girls and boys, communities, organizations, and other responsibility holders to challenge harmful social norms and barriers that prevent women and girls from practising enhanced climate-resilient livelihoods in targeted landscapes based on the sustainable use of biodiversity.

Specific Tasks (Project Level

• Conducting continuous Gender Assessments to gather essential information about gender dynamics and different needs, priorities, and opportunities among other groups within the target project area.
• Develop, implement and monitor appropriate gender equality strategies that ensure all project interventions and activities are both gender responsive and transformative (e.g. Ensuring that all training conducted under the project adopts and integrates gender- responsive approaches where sensitive topics such as SRH and GBV are taught in sex and age-segregated learning groups and by same-sex facilitators/educators.)
• Support the development of a community gender awareness action plan and follow upon the level of implementation of the plan
• Conducting locally appropriate gender equality training and awareness campaigns.
• Facilitating critical reflection sessions to promote awareness of gender equality and harmful social/cultural norms, constructions of masculinity/femininity, rights, SGBV and SRHR, etc., and to develop skills and attitudes around self-efficacy.
• Facilitating and supervising an evidence-based methodology, Promundo’s Program H&M, which is a gender-synchronized approach to training female champions alongside male champions for the intentional intersection of gender transformative efforts to reach both women and girls as well as men and boys.
• Mapping of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) referral pathways, including GBV response services available in the local community, the process for referring survivors to these services, and gaps in the referral system. This includes:
• Internal Audit of GBV Response and Referral Capacity
• Identifying, mapping and prioritizing GBV services and service providers such as health services (including clinical care for sexual assault survivors), psychosocial support services, child protection, safety/security services (including safe spaces), case management and legal/justice services.
• Identifying gaps in GBV Services, Service Quality, and Accessibility
• Define and communicate the Referral Pathway and GBV Response Process (including developing appropriate messaging on GBV response services to be shared with the larger community).
• Ensuring a Locally-appropriate GBV risk mitigation system is established and functioning in each project location.

Other tasks:

• Provide support in project communication to ensure that all stakeholders are informed on an on-going basis about the project’s objectives and activities, overall project progress, and the opportunities for involvement in various aspects of the project’s implementation.
• Formulate, implement and update the organizational level gender mainstreaming plan, including training project staff on gender and coordinating training on gender for other project stakeholders.
• Conduct engagement activities with local, regional and national stakeholders for policy change and impacts on the ground.
• Perform other duties as deemed relevant to the assignment and advancement of theproject objective by the supervisor

Education 

• University degree or equivalent in Gender and Development Studies or any other relevant field; – with additional training in gender and development, project management, and communications.

Experience 

• At least three (3) years experience in project implementation, focusing on gender equality.
• Extensive experience in assessing and addressing gender-related issues in rural communities in Kenya, including developing and implementing gender equality strategies and action plans.
• A good understanding of the social-economic and environmental dynamics of the ASAL counties of Kenya.

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Job Description (Summary)

• The Livelihood Officer will, in consultation with the Project Manager, plan and take the lead in the effective execution of the livelihood-related project activities for the program as outlined in the project proposal, which includes but is not limited to skills, practices and capacities geared towards enhancing Improved low carbon, climate resilient economies in Kitui Rural, Kitui County-Kenya for enhanced well-being of communities, especially women, girls, and other vulnerable groups.
• The Officer will be responsible for planning and implementing all program activities related to enhancing climate-resilient livelihoods in targeted landscapes, based on the sustainable use of biodiversity, especially for women, girls, and other vulnerable groups.

Specific Tasks
General Tasks:

• Monitor and support timely and appropriate utilisation of budgeted resources for related project interventions and ensure effective and timely response plans.
• Take the lead in community mobilisation and sensitisation as per the planned livelihood-related project activities.
• Work closely with key stakeholders and community members in the establishment of beneficiary targeting criteria as well as identifying various vulnerable groups, disaggregating these groups on gender and age and developing a detailed beneficiary database.
• Compile monthly, quarterly and annual reports as per donor guidelines and ADRA Policy.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to design appropriate training curricula as per the need and targeted training modules.
• Coordinate with the Project manager to ensure that appropriate controls, monitoring and evaluation tools are in place and utilised promptly in the implementation process.
• Contribute to the practical and timely implementation of all project livelihood activities.
• Fostering partnerships and networks with stakeholders. e.g. the government ministries, relevant civil society organisations and community-based groups.
• Prepare articles, stories and photographs that can be used to enhance the project’s image.

Other Tasks:

• Provide support in project communication to ensure that all stakeholders are informed on an ongoing basis about the project’s objectives and activities, overall project progress, and opportunities for involvement in various aspects of the project’s implementation.
• Ensuring that all relevant stakeholders are informed, aware of and supportive of the project goals and activities, and ADRA Kenya at large
• Ensuring that all project targets are met within the set timelines
• Reports delivered on time and in excellent quality and that all project inputs and activities are adequately documented and accounted for
• Conduct engagement activities with local, regional, and national stakeholders forpolicy change and impacts on the ground
• Perform other duties as deemed relevant to the assignment and advancement ofthe project objective by the supervisor

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Agroforestry/Environmental studies, horticulture and project management or any other related area.

Experience 

• At least three (3) years experience in project implementation, management, focusing on dryland farming in ASALs, and documentation of lessons from project interventions.
• A good understanding of the social-economic and environmental dynamics of the ASAL counties of Kenya, particularly Kitui County

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Project Description
In collaboration with other partners, ADRA Kenya is implementing a nature-based program covering Kitui Rural Sub County in Kitui County. This program will scale up nature-positive food systems for enhanced climate change adaptation within a Sub-Afromontane region of the Athi River basin in Kenya.

Job Description (Summary)

• The MEAL Officer manages information, reporting processes, and products to ensure professional, high-quality communication about the project’s programmatic activities and results. 
• The MEAL Officer will also improve information management and data quality and strengthen knowledge sharing and learning at the community level across the organisation and with the international livelihood and development communities using the innovative Community-led Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (ColMEL) methodology. The officer will assume responsibility for full-cycle monitoring and evaluation of the project, developing appropriate methodologies and tools to design assessments.

Specific Tasks
General M&E Tasks:

• Develop, implement, and assess monitoring frameworks for the NATURE Plus project.
• Develop the overall framework for project M&E systems in collaboration with the project manager and other senior project staff, including requirements, reporting, baseline, and evaluation surveys; develop and monitor the project management plan to systematically document performance
• Ensure the alignment of M&E activities with program goals
• Ensure adherence to specific monitoring and reporting requirements for Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB), Global Affairs Canada (GAC) funded projects, including provisions related to the Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation framework, Global Affairs Canada’s (GAC) Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) as well as other requirements under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Contribute to the development of the Program implementation Plan (PIP), annual work plans and detailed implementation plans (DIPs) to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities
• Develop and maintain indicator tracking tools; as well as databases and tracking tools as needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of project interventions
• Analyse data for accuracy, flag validation or quality issues, and contribute to system fixes, management decision-making and reporting
• Ensure timely development and submission of reports including progress reports including monthly and quarterly indicator performance reports for tracking progress against key indicators as needed
• Conduct field visits for data validation and to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets; coordinate data collection at project sites to monitor program development and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data; capture and document lessons learned and champion the scaling up best practices
• Edit content and presentation of all reporting and deliverables before submission to ensure superior quality and professionalism

Specific ColMEL Tasks:

• Design, initiate, and facilitate productive, collaborative, respectful, and solutions- oriented community-level monitoring evaluation, accountability, and learning systems
• Provide technical leadership and facilitate community monitoring teams in planning and implementing M&E systems and activities, evidence-based program decision-making, and results reporting; provide training as needed.
• Provide support in project communication to ensure that all stakeholders are informed on an ongoing basis about the project’s objectives and activities, overall project progress, and opportunities for involvement in various aspects of the project’s implementation.
• Conduct engagement activities with local, regional, and national stakeholders for policy change and impacts on the ground

Other Tasks:

• Support reviewing and refining the organisational level monitoring evaluation accountability and learning framework, including training project staff on M&E and community-led monitoring evaluation and learning approaches.
• Support the development, design, and writing of proposals and concept notes for related programming information management and reporting
• Perform other duties as deemed relevant to the assignment and advancement of the project objective by the supervisor

Education 

• University degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Demographics, International Development or any social science with additional training in Monitoring and Evaluation is preferred.

Experience 

• At least three (3) years’ experience in project implementation/management, with proven success in designing, implementing, and operating M&E systems from project initiation to close out.
• Extensive experience in strategic planning and performance management, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans
• Experience in planning and managing surveys, developing and refining data collection tools, and with data quality assessments and oversight
• Demonstrated experience in participatory processes and in facilitating dialogue among and between communities, development partners, the private sector, civil society, and government on sensitive matters
• A good understanding of the social-economic and environmental dynamics of the ASAL counties of Kenya, particularly Kitui County