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Monitoring & Evaluation Officer: Africare Zambia

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Africare’s Zambian Maternity Homes (ZaMs) Project is a Phase II implementation and evaluation project in two Saving Mothers Giving Lives (SMGL) Districts in Zambia, funded under the MSD for Mothers and other maternal health donors’ initiative for developing Sustainable Maternity Home Models in Zambia. The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer will lead the development of project monitoring and evaluation guidelines working in close collaboration with other project team members, project partners, Africare/HQ technical Unit, and stakeholders. S/He will be responsible for overall project data management and maintain the quality and integrity of the project data for completeness, accuracy and timeliness. The M&E officer will also work closely with University of Michigan evaluators to ensure that evaluation data are valid and reliable.S/He will ensure that the project’s M&E system is updated regularly and in-line with globally recognized and approved systems. S/He will be responsible for the dissemination of information generated from the data to enable project staff utilize them for project monitoring, planning, redirection and reporting. The M&E Officer will be reporting to the Project Director who is responsible for guiding the overall M&E strategy and implementation and will be assisted by four M&E Assistants (2 in Mansa and 2 in Lundazi).

Responsibilities:

As a senior staff member of the Project team, he/she will be expected to maintain cordial and productive relations with Africare stakeholders including donors, government, collaborating partners and communities, adequately espousing Africare principles at all times, and will be required to assist the Project Director to inform, review and ensure staff compliance with the Africare’s Code of Ethics. Working in close collaboration with the Project Director and the

District Coordinators, The M&E Officer will be responsible for:

  •  Designing and developing, in collaboration with Project team, the Performance Monitoring
  •  Plan in the first 90 days and keep the PMP updated throughout the life of the project.
  •  Directing the monitoring and evaluation of the project by designing and putting in place
    M&E systems;
  •  Contributing effectively to the development and review of project plans and budgets in order to guide program implementation and resource utilization;
  •  Developing appropriate M&E data collection tools;
  •  Conducting M&E trainings for project staff and primary stakeholders;;
  •  Working with projects’ management units to ensure that M&E materials are available and the latest procedures, guidelines and protocols are used by the project;
  •  Guiding staff and implementing partners in preparing their progress reports;
  •  Collecting, compiling and analyzing reports prepared by implementing partners and consolidating progress reports for project management to submit to the donor. The performance reports include, but are not limited to, monthly, quarterly and annual reports for the purposes of monitoring project implementation;
  •  Producing timely monitoring and impact assessment reports to the Project Managers in order to provide project performance information;
  •  Ensuring that data provided by beneficiaries and all reports submitted by the district staff are accurate and complete;
  •  Managing Africare M&E Unit database(s);
  •  Guiding the regular sharing of the outputs of M&E findings with project staff and primary stakeholders;
  •  Ensuring that monitoring data are discussed in the appropriate forum and in a timely fashion in terms of implications for future action;
  •  Providing support to surveys and research;
  •  Coordinating project evaluations;
  •  Undertaking regular visits to the field to support implementation of M&E and to identify where adaptations might be needed;
  •  Carrying out any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications:

  •  Must have a degree in Development Studies or related discipline with a focus on project monitoring and evaluation; experience in participatory assessment, monitoring and evaluation, training and facilitation, data processing/analysis and working with computers; proven and demonstrated use of spreadsheets and IT statistical packages; excellent interpersonal communication skills required; ability to translate technical information into practical guidance tools and effectively communicate these using print, electronic and presentation media; ability to work effectively in a team consisting of people with different technical backgrounds and with varying levels of technical training; excellent English written and oral communication skills and ability to write for a range of audience and purposes.
  •  She/he must exhibit the ability to organize and train staff.
  •  She/he must have good contextual knowledge of community priorities, organizational relationships and social and cultural constraints and realities.
  •  Prior Work Experience and Other Requirements:
  •  A minimum of 3 -7 years of prior Monitoring and Evaluation experience working in health related field.
  •  Self-Starter and highly motivated.
  •  Valid Driver’s License

How to Apply:

Applications should include a CV and cover letter. In the cover letter (of no more than two pages in length), the candidate should briefly describe his or her motivation for the position and highlight relevant experience.

Please send CVs to [email protected] , including “ZaMs M&E Officer” in the subject line.

Closing date for all applications is June 15, 2015 with priority date of June 3, 2015. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis.