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Monitoring & Evaluation Officer job in Zambia

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Plan International is a humanitarian, child-centered development organisation that works in over 60 countries to pursue its vision of a world in which all children realise their full potential in societies that respect human rights and dignities. Plan International is an independent, equal opportunity, non-profit organisation without political or religious affiliation. Child protection is key in all that we do.

Working in Zambia since 1996, Plan International Zambia’s development and capacity building programmes focus primarily on education, health and sanitation, economic empowerment, and child protection and participation. Plan International’s work is guided by our Child-Centered Community Development (CCCD) approach. Plan International Zambia has programme units in: Central, Luapula, Eastern, and province and in Lusaka, where the Country Office (CO) is located.

Plan International Zambia is looking for innovative, motivated self-starter to fill the following position:

Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Job Purpose
To ensure programme effectiveness and learning in the delivery of the Health & Child Protection Country Programmes. He/she will provide technical leadership to the project team on Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E), including the development of the M&E system and plan, monitoring tools, and operational planning, reporting and capacity building.

Key responsibilities for this position include

  • Supporting development and reviewing programmes and projects to ensure that the strategies and approaches used are in line with the Country Strategic Plan
  • Supporting the development of Monitoring, Evaluation and Research(MER) plans for programme effectiveness and learning in the delivery of programmes
  • Strengthening and institutionalising corporate monitoring systems and tools for the Child Protection and Health Country Programme for effective management of outcomes and results
  • Facilitating the development of – participatory monitoring and evaluation systems including Community Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) Systems for enhanced accountability
  • Providing technical leadership in planning and coordination of Baselines, Assessments, Evaluations, Research and case studies to enhance performance measurement and learning
  • Leading Health & Child Protection programme teams in generating and sharing lessons learnt and best practices from MER activities for continuous program improvement
  • Facilitating capacity-building on Monitoring & Evaluation of staff and partners to ensure quality data collection and management
  • Coordinating the production of timely and high quality programme monitoring and evaluation reports for evidence based accountability
  • Participates in development of annual programme budgets and project operational plans

Individual Specifications include:

  • Possession of a Bachelors Degree in Social Sciences or equivalent from a recognised university
  • At least 2-4 years experience with 3 years practical work experience in monitoring & evaluation
  • Demonstrated skills in usage of statistical packages
  • Experience in Participatory methodologies
  • Proven understanding of programming concepts and Human Rights Approaches to Development

Closing date: 26 November, 2015
For full details on the job profile and application requirements, please send an email, clearly stating the job title of interest to: [email protected]