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Monitoring and Evaluation Officer(BRCiS Consortium), Kenyan nationals only - Somalia

Nairobi

  • Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Location: Nairobi
  • Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Accounting (Audit, Controlling)
    • Coordination
    • Monitoring and Evaluation
    • Emergency Aid and Response
  • Closing Date: Closed

The Building Resilient Communities in South-Central Somalia (BRCiS) Consortium was created in 2013 with DFID funding. BRCiS’ objective is to reinforce target populations’ capacities to withstand cyclical and minor shocks and, aims at decreasing the number of people in a state of crisis. BRCiS adopts a holistic approach to resilience, which aims to respond to the immediate humanitarian needs of targeted households and communities, while at the same time tackling the root causes of vulnerability and destitution.

The Internal Relief Facility (IRF) is a funding stream dedicated by DFID to responding to emergencies in Somalia. Part of this funding has been channelled through NRC and the BRCiS Consortium to 9 partners for an emergency response intervention between August and December 2017, looking at a multi-sectoral programme on food security, wash, nutrition, health and shelter.

The position will oversee the overall design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems and procedures and ensure that all aspects of the BRCiS-IRF Consortium M&E system are adhered

Job description

  • Generic Responsibilities
  • Under the strategic direction of the BRCiS-IRF Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, ensure maintenance of the Consortium M&E system including conducting reviews of progress against bench marks, facilitating consultations and trainings, and coordinating reviews and updates.
  • Develop M&E guidance, tools and procedures (including consultation with program staff to determine needs and appropriateness, draft documents, facilitating consultation on documents, and rolling out finalized products)
  • Promote the standardization of M&E processes throughout the BRCiS-IRF Consortium, providing training and support to BRCiS-IRF Members as needed.
  • Provide technical and surge support to field teams on monitoring and evaluation processes with a particular focus on data collection initiatives through regular field visits.
  • Support the use of mobile phone data collection by training field staff, creating questionnaire templates and providing administrative support.
  • Conduct training on Monitoring and Evaluation.
  • Compile periodic quantitative output reports from Field offices for circulation to senior management.
  • Provide technical and surge support for quantitative and qualitative analysis for assessments, donor reports, and other processes.

Qualifications

  • University degree preferably in social sciences, international relations and/or development or other relevant discipline.
  • Experience in design, development and maintenance of XLS-Forms for use in Open Data Kit (ODK)
  • Experience in training and support to Digital Data Gathering users, particularly ODK Collect users
  • Fluency in Excel is a must, as well as advanced use of Word and PowerPoint
  • Advanced knowledge and experience of standard Monitoring and Evaluation procedures and tools
  • Experience in use of large datasets for data analysis and reporting
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Experience in use of Business Intelligence tools, QlickView and QlickSense and management dashboards
  • Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong analysis skills (qualitative and quantitative)
  • Excellent one to one and group communication /information presentation skills
  • Experience in training and capacity building in M&E mechanisms at various project levels
  • Good understanding of various donors’ requirements
  • Experience in designing and leading on specific development research projects
  • Experience working with statistical computer software packages
  • Project design and management skills
  • Goal oriented with ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision.
  • GIS

Education level

  • College / University, Bachelor's degree

Personal qualities

  • Knowledge of the context in the Greater Horn of Africa Region
  • Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts, multi-country disaster preparedness, response and recovery programming.
  • Experience with project development, especially from an emergency and post-emergency phases
  • Experience in resource mobilisation and working with various donors and conversant with their technical frameworks and strategies (eg. DFID, ECHO, EU etc.)
  • Experience with coordination mechanisms (cluster and sectorial)
  • Experience in advocacy work
  • Safety and security awareness training

We offer

  • Duty station: Nairobi with frequent travels to Somalia
  • Contract period is 5 months.
  • Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions.
  • The candidate will observe NRC’s code of conduct and working hours for the NRC Office in Nairobi.

  • Approved health certificate will be requested before contract start

  • NRC may be required to verify the identity of its partners/employees and to check that its partners/employees have not been involved in illegal activities. NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.

  • Application procedures and CV registration: Please note that you are required to enter the geographical location for all your previous positions while registering your CV. There is no specific field for this information in our CV form, but you can use the "Company name" field for both company and location
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