Monitoring and Evaluation Manager Ethiopia (National Position)

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contracts.

The role of the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager is to lead the strategic direction and quality assurance of monitoring and evaluation in the country office. The M&E Manager should design and implement a strategy, SOPs, and budget for M&E which ensures the CO is meeting and exceeding M&E minimum standards. Plan for and generates the evidence and learning required to feed into programme and strategic decision making

Generic responsibilities

1. Responsible to develop the CO monitoring, evaluation and learning strategy, responding to contextual challenges but also ensuring alignment with the regional strategy and global M&E framework, policy and strategy.
2. Develop CO specific M&E SOPs responding to contextual challenges, according to NRC’s M&E minimum standards ensuring necessary resources
3. Technical input to programme monitoring and evaluation plans, including methodological guidance and resource planning
4. Ensuring the roll out and use of global and regional M&E developments at the CO level. Also leading new technical developments to respond to M&E needs in the context.
5. Provide technical M&E support, guidelines and capacity building across the CO.

Specific responsibilities

• Support HOP in setting up and implementing systems for tracking management responses
• Contribute to fundraising through ensuring robust TOCs, M&E plans, logframes, M&E activities, budgets and staffing are incorporated into programme and project proposals
• Lead the process of developing the country evaluation plan, and ensure that evaluations are completed as per the NRC Evaluation Policy and evaluation hand book and encourage absorption of lessons and recommendations being provided by various CO events: evaluations, assessments, technical visits, learning reviews; and that monitoring data feed into management decisions
• Guide and improve the beneficiary feedback and complaints mechanism (as a major component of Ethiopia’s accountability framework), ensuring staff capacity and integration of the system across all area offices
• Lead the effort in continuously evaluating CO and AO M&E staffing structure in response to external variables, M&E team’s mandate, project and programme M&E activity and team resourcing.
• Support internal improvement processes through the development of an annual M&E strategy, based on use and analysis of standard M&E tools and checklists; and global theory of change and mandatory indicators
• Lead the development, rollout, and updating of Ethiopia specific M&E SOPs
• Capture and disseminate learning from global studies, evaluations, annual learning reviews
• Internal and external presentation of context, needs, and response analysis to support internal learning and external influencing. This can be for both programme based advocacy aims, as well as steering donors, using evidence to inform fundraising.

These are not areas that M&E managers are overall responsible for. However, M&E can provide methodological technical support on the following areas:

• Managing the beneficiary and complaints feedback mechanism
• Provides technical support and advise to programme staff on methods and tools for needs assessments and other types of research including supporting the development of MSNA tools and support to context analysis
• Provide technical M&E guidance for innovation and technology for M&E and database management, including internal Information Management processes.

Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• 5-7 years of demonstrated management experience in design, implementation, and oversight of monitoring, evaluation, and research for large to mid-scale international projects or programmes
• Advanced degree in economics, research methods, social sciences or a related field
• Technical competency and prior experience implementing various programme evaluation methodologies and approaches
• Excellent analytic, communication, interpersonal, writing, collaboration, problem-solving, planning/organizing, and facilitation skills;
• Advanced experience in qualitative and quantitative data analysis and tools
• Fluency in spoken and written English.
• Experience within supporting M&E for one of NRC’s core competencies is an asset
• Knowledge of the context in Ethiopia
• Knowledge of Amharic considered an asset
• Ethiopian nationals and females are strongly encouraged to apply

For more information, here is the detailed job description.

Additional Information

Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Type of Contract: 12 months renewable based on funding and performance

Salary: Based upon the NRC grading Scale

Travel: 30%

This role is only open to Ethiopian Nationals with vast M&E experience!