Job Description
- Application Deadline: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT
- Position: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for Tearfund M-power Project
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience 3 years
- Location Ogun , Osun , Oyo
- Job Field Project Management 
Purpose of the Team:
- To contribute to CRUDAN’s corporate vision of facilitating wholistic community transformation with the Church as agent of change, manifesting the kingdom of God on earth.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Living an exemplary Christian Life and doing his/her work diligently as unto the Lord, and make self, available as counsellor and friend.
- Ensuring that baseline surveys are conducted with the informed consent and participation of the programme beneficiaries.
- Ensuring that our monitoring systems include mechanisms for beneficiaries to participate and to feedback their comments on the programme.
- Recognition of the indicators of the output for improved accountability and learning to beneficiaries/other stakeholders.
General scope of the Job
The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer is specifically responsible for:
- Monitoring and evaluating M-power Projects being implemented by CRUDAN and working with Project Manager to report to Director of Programmes.
- Assisting in producing, networking and to storing up-to-date resources (database) that support the organisation’s communication and outreach.
- Monitoring and evaluating data collection activities, survey work and analytical sessions.
- Ensuring field data is gathered and registered, ensuring the quality of data entered and helping to produce initial statistical analyses.
- Assisting in the training and education of partner organisations and clients in M&E.
Responsibilities and Tasks
Setting up the M&E system
- Assist in revising the programme logframe matrix, particularly in the areas of the objective hierarchy, indicators and monitoring mechanisms.
- Guide the process for identifying the key performance questions and parameters for monitoring programme performance and comparing it to targets.
- Design the format for monitoring programme performance reports.
- Set out the framework and procedures for the evaluation of programme activities with stakeholders
- Participate in training with stakeholders, including primary stakeholders, in M&E skills, including participatory aspects.
Implementation of M&E
- Based on the budget, design the framework for the physical and process monitoring of project activities.
- Prepare consolidated progress reports for Management in accordance with approved reporting formats and timing.
- Conduct regular visits to meet beneficiaries in coordination with project officers to capture data correctly and efficiently to ensure regular and accurate reporting
- Develop and submit quarterly capacity enhancement and assessment plan for project beneficiaries in targeted communities and ensure the implementation of approved actions.
- Review monitoring reports, analyse them for impact evaluation to identify the causes of potential bottlenecks in programme implementation.
Communication
- Prepare reports on M&E findings, as required, working closely with the Project Manager
- Undertake regular visits to the field to support implementation of M&E and to identify where adaptations might be needed.
- Guide the regular sharing of the outputs of M&E findings with programme staff, implementing partners and primary stakeholders.
- In collaboration with the administrator, provide the Executive Director with management information that may be required.
- Make regular reports to the Board/Executive Committee and Management, highlighting areas of concern and preparing the documentation for review at meetings.
- Check that monitoring data are discussed in the appropriate forum and in a timely fashion. If necessary, create such discussion forum to fill any gaps.
- Performs other duties that may be assigned by the Executive Director and/or Director of Programmes.
Personal Qualities:
- Committed Christian and active in a local church.
- BSc in relevant field or other similar field
- At least 3 years’ experience in development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; other learning efforts is required
- Ability to work calmly under pressure.
- Flexible attitude to work
- Ability to gain trust and support of colleagues
- Good Team player.
- Ability to meet deadlines, targets and work proactively with others to meet shared responsibilities.
- Ability to relate to people from a variety of diverse cultural backgrounds