Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
Kenya Red Cross Society is one of the
largest humanitarian organizations in Kenya. Its mission is to be the leading
humanitarian organization in Kenya delivering excellent quality service of
preventing and Alleviating Human Suffering.
The Society in
collaboration with The
American Red Cross International Services Department (ISD) seeks to prevent and
alleviate human suffering around the world by responding to disasters, building
safer, more resilient communities, and educating future humanitarians.
The Society is looking for a qualified person to fill the following position:
Position
Title: Monitoring & Evaluation
(M&E) Officer
Reporting
to: Quality & Learning Senior
Delegate, American Red Cross Africa Region
Job location: Nairobi, KRCS Headquarters
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Position
summary
The M&E Officer will report
to Quality and Learning Senior Delegate and will be responsible for providing
support for all M&E activities in East Africa sub region. In addition s/he will
support M&E capacity building for the country delegation program staff,
technical reporting, ensure data quality and build capacity for effective
M&E system.
The position will be based in
Nairobi, Kenya, with scheduled support visits to Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and any
other East African country on need basis.
Specific duties and accountabilities:
- Operationalize the M&E framework including and not limited to:
designing programme M&E tools for data collection, verification, data
management & reporting and data audits, supporting setting up
functional data management systems and processes.
- Assist delegation staff to develop systematic and realistic programme
monitoring plans that capture quantitative and qualitative data to report
on all indicators.
- Facilitate on the job M&E training for capacity development for
partner national societies as appropriate
- Develop and maintain a system for archiving M&E guidelines, tools,
data files, analysis files, reports and presentations for all programmes.
- Assist in gathering, summarizing and disseminating relevant technical
updates on program planning monitoring, evaluation and operations research
within the sub region.
- Lead in baselines, mid-term reviews and evaluation of programme
activities and ensure proper documentation of innovative approaches and
best practices for dissemination, learning and sharing experiences
- Support new program assessments, design and write up (proposals or
concepts), including preparation and/or presentation of programmes briefs
internally and externally as may be required
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of Postgraduate degree in relevant fields
of study such as Social science, M&E, Statistics, Project Planning or
related fields.
- At least 5 years of progressive responsibility
leading monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian and development
programming, including significant time in performing programme data
management, and monitoring and evaluation functions
Key Competencies
·
Strong communication and
presentation skills in both English and Kiswahili, including
ability to develop reports and prepare relevant publications
·
Demonstrated technical expertise
in strategic management, project planning and
budgeting, resource management, implementation ability as well as programme
monitoring and evaluation
·
Experience
using SPSS, STATA, Epi Info and other common data manipulation software.
·
Report
writing skills and ability to present programme data in simple, creative and
accurate manner
·
Knowledge
of word processing, spreadsheets, data entry and analysis packages and data
bases like MS Word, Excel and SPSS
Applications
should be sent to the following address to be received on or before 5:00 pm Friday,
27th September 2013. Late applications will not be considered:
Secretary
General
Kenya
Red Cross Society
P.O. Box 40712-00100,
Nairobi
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