Job at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) for a Head of Monitoring and Evaluation
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is a
not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to
meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition,
poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various
partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we
improve livelihoods, enhance
food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve
natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global
agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Head of Monitoring and Evaluation
Ref: DDG-R4D/H/MES/05/17
Location: Ibadan
Recruitment Type: National (3-year renewable contract)
Job Summary
- The Head of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) shall provide
leadership for establishing and nurturing a strong, integrated and
effective institutional M&E framework for IITA.
- The Head of Monitoring and Evaluation shall provide support on
proposal/strategy development, baseline and special studies, annual
reporting, mid-term, and final evaluation methodologies; and facilitate
critical reflection and learning across the institution based on
information generated from the M&E system.
- In addition, contribute to increased appreciation of the need
for quality M&E across the Institute, as well as increased
confidence within the Unit by mentoring and appreciation of its
personnel.
- Leadership tasks include, but are not limited to guiding the
institution into building a strong M&E culture and practice;
obtaining, institutionalizing and managing an appropriate software
platform to automate the aggregation and presentation of necessary
M&E data; providing oversight to ensure quality data collection,
analysis, and reporting to IITA management, donors and other
stakeholders in a timely manner; building and overseeing the
implementation of a strategy for capacity development of M&E
personnel, focal persons as well as key partners to ensure best
practices.
- S/he shall be based at the IITA headquarters in Ibadan, Nigeria
and have close interaction with the four hubs, country offices, and IITA
project sites.
Position/Responsibilities
The specific responsibilities of the Head of M&E will include
Institutional M&E Leadership (70%):
- Guide the conduct of M&E across all projects and programs of
the institute. Institutionalize and manage the automation of M&E
processes.
- Generate verifiable information for strategic decision-making through aggregation of data from all reporting levels.
- Lead the integration of results-based management into all interventions.
- Collaborate with the impact assessment team to streamline methodologies for measuring results.
- Coordinate the institute-wide M&E team that includes M&E
professionals and focal persons of hubs or other projects. Interact and
contribute to data aggregation and alignment functions of KPIs and
Systems and Site Integration.
- Maintain/Develop M&E related collaborative relationships with strategic partners on behalf of IITA.
- Represent IITA on the CGIAR M&E groups, and regional M&E communities of practice.
- Review progress on achieving institutional objectives and
provide IITA Management with information about important lessons learned
and replicable practices.
- Collaborate with other research support units to implement
knowledge management systems that provide up-to-date information on
institutional performance and operational effectiveness.
- Continuously review, the M&E framework and ensure existence
of M&E competences throughout the institution in terms of human and
resource capacity as well as an enabling environment. Identify and
minimize existing M&E procedures leading to duplicated efforts in
order to save IITA’s resources.
Hub/Program/Project Level M&E Leadership (30%):
- Work with hub-level M&E personnel to review hub level
M&E status and provide requisite support to strengthen the systems
with specific attention to project inception, implementation and the
various stages of project evaluations.
- Support program/project teams in development and implementation
of M&E systems that satisfy institutional and donor standards, which
include:
- M&E plans with clearly defined indicators reflecting causal models;
- Procedures for collection, collation, analysis, reporting, and use of data for decision-making;
- Monitoring, documentation and learning approaches that are
integrated, aligned, and mainstreamed into project activities and
coordinated with stakeholders;
- Plans for evaluation studies on outcome and impact level achievements.
- Develop staff capacity in maintaining data quality standards,
and conduct data quality audits of all sources of M&E data that are
reported.
- Support the use of appropriate software systems within the hubs,
country offices and programs/projects as well as linkage to the
institutional wide software system.
Educational Qualifications
- The candidate should hold a PhD, MBA or similar advanced degree in a relevant field.
Core Competencies:
- At least 10 years of relevant experience.
- Excellent track record in developing M&E frameworks and implementing results-based performance management.
- Proven leadership skills and sensitivity to cross-cultural and gender issues and ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
language are required with proficiency in other international languages
viewed as a strong asset. Demonstrated strategic thinking and time
management skills.
- Commitment to gender equity and diversity
- Knowledgeable in:
- Performance analysis indicators
- Logical framework approach
- Theory-based evaluation
- Formal survey techniques
- Rapid appraisal methods and other participatory methods
- Cost-benefit analysis and impact assessment approaches
- Conversant with database development, storage and management.
Remuneration
IITA offers internationally competitive remuneration package paid in U.S. Dollars
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified applicants should complete the online
application attaching a cover letter which should address how the
candidate’s background/experience relates to the specific duties of the
position applied for, curriculum vitae, names and addresses of three
professional referees (which must include either the Head of the
applicant’s current or previous organization or applicant’s direct
Supervisor/Superior at his/her present or former place of work). The
application should be addressed to the Head, Human Resources Service.
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Application Deadline: 2nd June, 2017.