About The Role
The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer
will be charged with the responsibility of coordinating and managing the
monitoring and evaluation activities of Nurturing Futures project related for
Plan Kenya in Turkana. The role has an assignment to drive project Data Quality
Assurance and specific data requirements for projects/programmes as well as
tracking and reporting on project outputs, outcomes and impact of the Nurturing
Futures project interventions. The M&E Officer will enable documentation of
project best practices, lessons learnt and project learning. He/She will work
towards profiling Nurturing Futures work and impact stories. The M&E
Officer is also responsible for overall coordination of consortium MERL
activities.
Accountabilities And Main Work Activities
Monitoring Implementation and M&E coordination at
strategic level (40%)
- Lead the participatory design and implementation of the
monitoring and evaluation framework of the Nurturing Futures project,
ensuring comprehensive oversight, coordination with consortium partners,
and strategic use of data by the project.
- Ensure the timely delivery of the project M&E framework
focused on tracking of project outputs, outcomes and impacts, including
regularly following up with consortium partners on the project indicators
they are responsible for.
- Collaborate closely with consortium partners and Plan
colleagues to identify, develop and contextualise data collection tools to
measure project indicators.
- Ensure consistent and quality data collection methods are used
during data collection, as well as conducting data quality checks
- Use digital platforms and digitalised versions of data
collection tools (e.g. Kobo Toolbox) for efficient data collection,
aggregation and analysis.
- Ensure the project indicators are tracked and the information
system is up to date for regular reporting and data utilization.
- Take steps to ensure quality of data collected and data
cleaning before analysis.
- Lead the analysis of collected data, including calculation of
indicators, assessment of progress, qualitative insights and
identification of areas for improvement.
- Oversee project evaluations and studies. Take a lead role on
establishment of Terms of reference, recruitment of researcher and quality
assurance throughout the process (e.g. measurement tools, report drafts),
including coordinating input from other consortium partners.
- Ensure results are entered into the Plan international PMERL
system regularly, make the analysis and generate reports from the system.
Learning, project quality and standards (25%)
- Prepare data, and input into project reports in collaboration
with the consortium’s MERL focal points and program managers.
- Present data in clear and visually compelling way to team and
consortium, e.g. use of appropriate graphs and visualisation tools (e.g.
using Excel and PowerBI dashboards) and sharing of qualitative insights.
- Coordinate learning events and activities, as informed by the
project learning agenda, including inviting consortium partners to
present.
- Contribute to learning products.
- Support Plan and consortium partners to use on-going project
data and analysis to make data-backed decisions to improve the quality of
implementation and adapt project design.
- Ensure adherence to Plan International’s M&E standards,
Research and evaluation standards and Plan’s ethical guidance around MERL
and MER Safeguarding
- Ensure all data is disaggregated by sex, age and disability
and that all the M&E framework and project studies are gender
responsive.
Documentation, Data management, Knowledge management
(15%)
- Ensure safe data management practices including secure and
confidential data collection and storage, and secure sharing in-line with
partner data sharing agreements.
- Contribute to a consortium online sharing platform for sharing
of projects documents, technical guidance notes and consortium joint
working documents
- Disseminate project learning materials and reports to internal
and external audiences
- Facilitate and support the documentation of best practices and
lessons learned from project outputs for audiences within and outside Plan
International
- Support the project team in developing case studies and change
stories periodically.
Capability building through knowledge sharing and
networking (10%)
- Support coaching and training needs of partner staff for
improved quality M&E practices in response to needs, including
facilitating access to existing Plan International MERL training and
resources/guidance.
- Conduct trainings of the project partners in relevant M&E
areas such as digital data collection, quality checking, analysis, and
reporting, as needed and as requested by the consortium partner and Senior
Program Manager and partner management.
Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding)
and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) 5%
- Ensure that Plan International’s global policies for
Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion
are fully embedded in MERL work. This includes but is not limited to
conducting a Safeguarding Risk Assessment before any data collection
activity.
- Follow PII’s Safeguarding of Children and Young People policy
and Plan International’s Code of Conduct, ensuring that any suspected or
actual Safeguarding breach or concern is reported on in accordance with
appropriate procedures.
- Ensures that Plan Kenya contributes to Plan International’s
global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that
relevant reporting and data are submitted.
Other duties (5%)
- Any other assignment within the scope of work.
Qualifications/ skills / experience essential:
- Minimum of a University Degree Statistics, Monitoring and
Evaluation; Project Management, Social Science, Economics, Development
studies or any other related MERL field from a recognized university.
- At least 3 years of demonstrated successful coordination of
M&E functions and experience
- Experience in the application of MERL systems and frameworks
including theory of change and logical frameworks
- Experience coordinating and delivering on M&E frameworks
and M&E Plans and/or project, evaluation or research management.
- Experience with database design and management including
advanced use of Excel for data analysis and digital collection and
management software including Kobo Toolbox or equivalent (e.g. ODK,
Taroworks, Poimapper).
- Experience in building capacity / coaching of individuals,
teams, or organisations in M&E system design, tool development digital
data collection, quality checking, analysis, reporting
- Demonstrated experience on presenting and sharing complex data
in clear ways (e.g. data visuals) and reporting on project data
- Experience working in multi-partner projects/consortiums
Qualifications/ skills / experience
desirable:
- Experience working with refugee populations including
conducting data collection or research with refugee populations.
- Experience in climate change adaptation practice related to
Nutrition, Food security, developing community-based adaptation, or
integrating climate change issues into the design, monitoring, and
evaluation of programs.
- Demonstratable knowledge of and experience with gender
sensitive M&E and/or research design, performance monitoring, impact
evaluation, and / or social and environmental research methodologies
- Use of analysis software such as SPSS, Stata, R, Epiinfo,
Atlas-Ti, CSpro is an asset
Languages required
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Strong knowledge of Kiswahili.
- Ability to communicate in the local languages for Northern
Kenya will be an added advantage
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