International Rescue Committee Vacancy for a Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst
humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives.
Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers
lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee
from war or disaster.
At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S.
cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted
and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
IRC has been present in Nigeria since 2012 when the organization
responded to flooding in Kogi state. In early 2014, IRC opened a field
office in Mubi town of Adamawa state in NE Nigeria followed by offices
in Yola (Adamawa state) in November 2014 and Maiduguri (Borno state) in
October 2015. IRC has ECHO, OFDA, and Gates funds to respond to health,
nutrition, GBV, and WASH activities. In late 2014 and early 2015, IRC
received additional funds from SV, SIDA, USAID, and UNICEF to carry out
education, child protection, general protection, emergency food
distributions, shelter support, and NFI distributions to newly displaced
IDPs. In late 2015 into early 2016, IRC received Swiss and UNHCR
funds for additional emergency response humanitarian-focused programming
in NE Nigeria.
The International Rescue Committee is recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator
Location: Nigeria
Sector: Monitoring & Evaluation/Data Collection
Employee Type: Regular
Employee Category: Full Time
Job Overview/Summary
With direct management support from Deputy Director of Programs and
technical support from the Regional Measurement Action Coordinator, the
Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator will ensure that the IRC Nigeria
country program implements the monitoring and evaluation commitments as
set out in its Strategic Action Plan –SAP 2020. Core to that the M&E
focal person will be ensuring that suitable monitoring and evaluation
systems are in place, implemented as intended, and reporting in a
comprehensive and timely manner to facilitate program coordinators and
managers deliver programs that achieve the desired outcomes /impacts.
Responsibilities
Technically support IRC Nigeria to meet standards set out in Strategic
Action Plan (SAP 2020) and IRC’s global Monitoring for Action (MfA)
initiative for improving monitoring practice and use of data within the
organization, including through:
Strengthening outcome / program / sector M&E:
- Responsible for providing technical oversight & support for
establishment and maintenance of routine monitoring systems,
presentation of findings and building related staff competencies
- Work with project and support staff to ensure that project
design in proposals is logically sound, beneficiary-informed and
contextually appropriate, based on learning from previous projects and
technical best practice, and includes a Theory of Change and SMART log
frame (with IRC core indicators and enabling assessment of project
progress, quality, outcomes, and if relevant impact).
- Responsible for ensuring that detailed and feasible project
monitoring plans are developed that: i) provide an indicator matrix, ii)
map M&E roles and responsibilities of project and support staff,
iii) consider ethical and safe collection and storage of data, iv)
consider data quality audits, v) consider storing, protecting and
sharing project documents, and vi) consider the end of project learning
review.
- Work with project and support staff to determine which
monitoring activities will take place and which data collection methods
will be used to ensure their adequacy and appropriateness.
- Work with project and support staff to ensure that monitoring
activities are adequately resourced, with sufficient project and support
staff and adequate budget.
- Work with project and support staff to ensure that the project
work plan includes monitoring activities (or that a stand-alone
monitoring work plan is in place), is up-to date and progress tracked.
- Responsible for conducting data quality audits of projects &
programs to identify and resolve systemic problems affecting data
quality, and documenting and storing findings in project files on Box.
- Assist in conducting regular analysis and action planning
meetings to (1) compare data against project milestones, targets, and
quality expectations across project sites; (2) identify issues requiring
further attention; (3) define action needed and assign responsibility
and deadlines,
- Work with project and support staff to track progress on action points related to implementation and M&E activities.
- Work with project and support staff to provide M&E inputs for reports written during project implementation.
- Work with project and support staff to share reports written
during project implementation with donors and other stakeholders and
upload them to project files.
- Work with project and support staff to develop, translate, pilot and finalize data collection tools as needed.
- Work with project and support staff to establish project/program
databases &/or tracking sheets, &/or set up in the data
platform (COMET).
- Assist in training of staff in data collection methods, management, analysis and action techniques.
- Work with project and support staff to ensure that data is
collected and entered into databases &/or tracking sheets, &/or
the data platform on a regular basis.
- Responsible for providing consistent, supportive supervision to
strengthen staff performance as necessary to meet monitoring objectives
and ensure data quality.
Technical oversight and support for surveys, assessments and other
discrete learning activities, and building related staff competencies:
- Work with project and support staff to develop the TORs for needs assessments and surveys.
- Work with project and support staff to develop detailed work plans and budgets for needs assessment and survey activities.
- Responsible for conducting advanced analysis (inferential statistics) of needs assessment and survey data.
- Provide the M&E inputs for needs assessment and survey report writing.
- Provides inputs from survey and assessment data for tracking of overall progress on projects, programs and strategic priorities
- Assist in recruitment of enumerators & HR onboarding.
- Assist in selecting respondents following predefined sampling strategy.
- Work with project and support staff to clean and conduct descriptive analysis of needs assessment and survey data.
Learning:
- Assist in conducting and documenting end of project learning
reviews, and sharing lessons learned and best practices, incorporating
these into new project designs.
- Responsible for establishing overall country program core indicator tracking sheets &/or dashboards.
- Responsible for establishing cross-sectorial approaches to
monitoring (for example for activities being undertaken by more than one
sector, or beneficiary counting).
- Assist in completing quarterly Monitoring for Action project assessments and identifying projects in need of targeted support.
- Assist in identifying, documenting, storing and sharing lessons
learned that have implications for refinement of best programmatic
practice.
- Strengthening Country program M&E
- Responsible for compiling routine data across sites and for cross-cutting strategic objectives (safety and power)
Establishing cross-cutting M&E systems:
- Responsible for providing technical oversight and leadership for
cross-cutting thematic M&E (such as trainings and sensitizations
beneficiary accountability mechanisms and establishing coherent
approaches to beneficiary counting)
Requirements
- University degree (statistics, social science, public health, development economics, or a related discipline)
- Demonstrated ability to train and build capacity of others;
- Comprehensive knowledge of humanitarian accountability principles and their translation into practice;
- Strong planning, organizational and interpersonal skills;
- Excellent analytical, presentation, and reporting skills;
- Excellent database, data management and data analysis skills,
with experience using at least 2 software applications such as Microsoft
Excel, Access, SPSS, STATA;
- Previous experience with electronic/mobile data collection (Magpi, CommCare,) and GIS mapping preferred;
- Strong commitment to IRC’s mission, purpose and values
- Minimum four (4) years of international experience within the
development / humanitarian sector, at least 2 of which are at management
level preferably in Africa.
- Proven technical skills in monitoring and evaluation, including
experience with multi-sectorial and multi-donor funded programs and
experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection and
analysis;
- Proven abilities in developing monitoring plans, data
collection, information management, use of databases, and analysis and
performance monitoring;
Housing:
- The M&E Coordinator is an unaccompanied position and will be
based in Maiduguri field Office, North East Nigeria and accommodation
is in shared-housing.
How to Apply
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