Position Summary:
At the Rainforest Alliance, we are looking for a collaborative and results
oriented Senior Associate, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL). The
Senior Associate M&E is responsible for coordinating and carrying out a
LandScale-based Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) and Performance
Management Framework and activities in Rainforest Alliance’s Mount Kenya
Sustainable Landscape and Livelihoods Program in Kenya. The Senior Associate
M&E will lead the Mount Kenya Sustainable Landscape and Livelihoods Program
by working with Rainforest Alliance staff, project consortium partners,
consultants, and stakeholders to build, manage and incorporate a
multi-stakeholder LandScale tool, a framework outlining core environmental and
social dimensions of sustainability in landscapes and providing environmental,
social, and economic indicators to measure sustainability.
This role will include designing and evaluating implementation of
program activities; training technical staff, project partners, and field
consultants on M&E methods and tools; ensuring proper output and outcome
indicator data collection, quality control, analysis, and management; and
reporting on key findings. The position will also coordinate closely with other
Rainforest Alliance units.
This role also includes supporting Landscape Management Bodies in rolling out
and implementing LandScale-based, context adjusted systems to monitor their
landscape´s performance. It will involve a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
(MEL) system for the Action, while ensuring coordination of concerted efforts
to build evidence and knowledge sharing across several landscapes.
Responsibilities:
- The Rainforest Alliance’s Core Values are Impact, Change,
Collaboration, Openness and Trust and as such they form the basis of the
behaviours we demonstrate;
- Develop the program´s MEL Plan, including tools, processes,
and responsibilities to track program progress, assess its achievements,
address challenges and risks, and documents its lessons learned, in
consultation with MEL expert, and Team Manager;
- In coordination with the Team Manager, technically supports a
participatory process in Landscape Governance Bodies leading to the design
and implementation by the program’s Landscape Governance Bodies of
context-specific, Landscale-based M&E systems (including methods,
tools and processes, employing GIS and satellite imagery) in each of the
program´s target landscapes;
- Designs and provides support, directly and remotely to actors
of landscape governance bodies on M&E methods, tools and processes,
ensuring M&E best practices;
- Collaborate with the Team Manager in the design and conduction
of field-based baseline, mid-term, and end of program studies to
understand needs, gaps, and opportunities for achieving rural development
outcomes in the context of business and local community needs, and to
assess the program´s contribution to such outcomes; and
- Design and provide remote and person-to-person training and
technical assistance to staff, program partners, and field consultants on
M&E methods, tools and processes, ensuring M&E best practices;
- Implement and take responsibility for quality control
procedures to ensure transparent, evidence-based M&E systems, based on
reliable and timely field data collection, management and analysis, to
generate and report high-quality output and outcome indicator values;
- Support the Program Managers in maintaining updated program
information in the Project Management Platform and SharePoint-based
project sites;
- Support Program Managers in the preparation of quality and
timely program performance technical reports as required by donors, as
well as in the preparation of presentations to partners, and other
Rainforest Alliance colleagues and departments; and
- Ensure that Rainforest Alliance´s Key Performance Indicators
are embedded in program design; and M&E best practices into the
program.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Resource Economics,
Statistics, Social Economics, Agricultural Economics, Natural Resources
Management or related field;
- Demonstrated ability (5 years) in similar position, including
minimum of 2 years of experience conducting project M&E activities
including as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) officer for designing,
delivery and impact assessments of programs and projects, and/or related
studies;
- Experience in software programs including ArcGIS, QGIS, ERDAS
Imagine, Global Mapper, ENVI, STATA, SPSS, KOBO Toolbox, CSPro, R. and
computer Microsoft Office (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher);
- Has hands-on experience in co-designing and implementation of
cost-effective performance-based and community-based monitoring systems,
and the collection, management, analysis and reporting of high-quality
output and outcome indicator data;
- Experience advising and supervising field teams or consultants
in the collection of field data on social, environmental and/or agronomic
and/or socioeconomic indicators for performance assessment, and in the use
of associated field methods and tools (household surveys, farm monitoring,
etc.);
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; with
required fluency in English. Fluency in Swahili is a plus;
- Demonstrated ability to build capacity for Program M&E
among staff, partners and key actors in local communities;
- Ability to travel locally and internationally at least 40% of
the time.
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