Monitoring and Evaluation Manager

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Job Description

BACKGROUND Present in Sierra Leone since 1999, IRC supports Sierra Leonean institutions – government, civil society, community-based organizations, and private sector – to provide improved social services, decrease youth unemployment and mitigate gender-based violence. The IRC does this through programs and partnerships designed to improve the lives of women, youth, and children by implementing Health, Education, and Women and Girls’ Protection and Empowerment (WGPE) programming.

**Standards of Professional Conduct: The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.

Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances.**

Job Summary

The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Manager is responsible for technical supervision of and support to the establishment and maintenance of the routine project monitoring system. This will include data management (focusing on database design, quality, aggregation & data presentation at the overall level and across locations), facilitating routine data collection, analysis & action planning, assisting in evaluation & assessment, and promoting Project Knowledge management. She/he will report directly to the WGPE Coordinator and will have technical guidance from the Country M&E Coordinator. She/he will directly supervise the IRC M & E Officers.

**The position will support strong M&E practices across two projects. For the first, IRC in partnership with UNICEF Sierra Leone will be implementing a whole-school approach project to support the achievement of ending School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Sierra Leone in Kono and Kenema district. For the second, IRC as part of a consortium will be implementing a World Bank-funded project to mobilize communities and support out-of-school-children in Kono district.

Specific Responsibilities Program/Project Design and learning: With support from the M&E Coordinator, work with the Project Team and support staff to implement the Program’s M&E framework in line with IRC Monitoring for Action (MfA) standards, and ensure: (i) adherence to the matrix of indicators, (ii) roles and responsibilities of Project and support staff are mapped, (iii) ethical data collection, storage, sharing and securing of data are adhered to, (iv) documentation of data quality audits, (vi) analysis and harvesting of lessons learned from the project; and (vii) responsiveness to project clients’ feedback Support the M&E Coordinator to develop, pilot, and validate tailored project implementation monitoring tools, monitor the quality of implementation, check Project records for accuracy, provide support where necessary, and share data with project managers. With support from the M&E Coordinator as well as any other tools as required by the Project, establish, and maintain a project-level information management system; and collect project field-level information required by IRC, donors, and/or stakeholders.

Monitoring Track progress against project result framework, including targets, monitoring work plans, and project internal reporting schedules, and clarify what level of information is needed and where with key responsibilities assigned. Update the Project M&E plan timely and provide feedback to Project staff on the status and quality of implementation. Assist with monthly and/or quarterly performance indicator analysis, including generation of reports/dashboards and presentations to team members to (i) make evidence-informed decisions; (2) identify issues requiring further attention, document and share challenges with project managers; (3) define the necessary actions and strategy to address challenges and assign responsibility and deadlines. Support in the compilation and analysis of programme data at the field level and contribute into subsequent reporting through monthly MEL reports, flagging updates, successes, and issues from the MEL tracking tools. Provide technical assistance to project team members on the information management system, proper data collection, and record keeping; and provide consistent, supportive supervision to strengthen staff performance as necessary to meet monitoring objectives. Conduct regular data verification exercises to ensure reporting and collection of quality data. Periodically lead in the presentation of M&E data trends during reflective practice forums and data review meetings at the field office/ project level and gather lessons from project implementation processes. Follow up with project teams on project quality improvement action plans. Ensure action points are followed up and relevant measures taken and incorporated into programming; verify entered data for completeness, correctness, and consistency and follow up on any data quality issues.

Reviews / Evaluation & Learning Under the technical leadership of the M&E Coordinator and with the support of the technical focal points, assist with the design, planning and implementation of on-time execution of projects major monitoring and evaluation events including field data supervision during baseline survey, mid-term evaluation, final evaluation as needed. Coordinate the sharing of learning related to MEL practices across field offices, encouraging consideration of results both between and within sectorial teams, and providing support when internal/external reviews, evaluations, and lessons learned exercises should be employed. Organize learning meetings, events, and workshops for project team to document lessons learnt, good practices and areas of improvement. Support the implementation of processes to review the quality of existing project data, information collection methods and the suitability of the existing data for the provision of sound baseline information. Maintain a tracking spreadsheet for M&E activities and events – baselines, assessments, reviews, evaluations – tracking trends and recommendations, progressing their implementation where appropriate.**

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