Responsibilitie(s):

• Support the design, development, and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems across 54 countries in Africa. This also includes Strategic Monitoring plans for field-level activities to ensure quality, conflict-sensitive, innovative, and effective M& process.
• Provide technical support in proposal development including budgeting and log frame development, monitoring, reflective practice, evaluation, and learning.
• Establish appropriate methodologies and strategies to effectively monitor and evaluate programme progress in all regions while ensuring improved M&E standards around project planning meetings, Impact assessments, data collection tools, monitoring missions, and other research in all regions in Africa.
• Develop and maintain central and systematic information and knowledge management system whereby relevant project information, data, and lessons of programs are accessible for use as required.
• Support external consultant and Data collector recruitment and engagement process while ensuring standards are maintained for all processes of evaluation planning and implementation. This includes all baseline assessments, beneficiary mapping, policy assessment, and final evaluation in all regions of Africa.
• Facilitate cross-organizational learning, which includes providing information, guidelines, lessons learned, and user-friendly learning tools.
• Work with technical and field teams during reflection sessions to identify key methodologies to enable effective advocacy and campaigning and improve SOPs for selection and mentorship. And ensure that learning is built into ongoing implementation and adequately informs future programming
• Develop a systematic method of capturing project success and strengthen team capacity to identify and document outcomes that speak to specific project goals and objectives
• Working with the Communications team, supporting content gathering, developing knowledge materials, newsletters, learning booklets, and other communications products.
• Support the development of case studies and capturing of human-interest stories from project beneficiaries that are suitable for external audiences and share with the communications team for proper development publication.
• Ensure up to date databases and indicator tracking table for all projects capturing progress against the target while also ensuring standard in implementation according to agreed specification and justification from each activity TOR as they feed into project goals and objectives.
• Conduct Quarterly Data Quality Assessment to ensure data from all projects meets the required Searches auditory standard and share reports every quarter.

Qualification/Experience Requirement(s):

• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating programs with an international organization that has a robust M&E component. A Masters degree is an added advantage.
• Prior experience with a similar organization is preferred.
• Experience in developing M&E systems/tools or doing research with business development tools.
• Very strong writing skills to meet high-level reporting needs.
• Demonstrate language competency in English or French (Required)