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Monitoring & Evaluation Manager - BRCiS - Nairobi

Nairobi

  • Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Location: Nairobi
  • Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Humanitarian Aid and Coordination
    • Infrastructure and Urban-Rural development
    • Monitoring and Evaluation
    • Emergency Aid and Response
    • Managerial positions
  • Closing Date: Closed


The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

The Building Resilient Communities in Somalia (BRCiS) Consortium started a programme with an aim to improve the resilience of vulnerable communities and households in the Southern and Central regions of Somalia. The BRCiS Consortium is now implementing multi-year resilience programmes with funding from both DFID and DEVCO, in more than 14 districts. The Consortium’s approach balances a flexible community-informed combination of DRR, development, social protection and emergency response in order to address the most common shocks and stresses.

The role of the MEAL Manager is to establish and implement systems that promote evidence-based decision-making, programme and project performance, and internal management. A strong component of Learning is embedded in the overall BRCiS strategy. The MEAL Manager will contribute to quality programming through supporting access to and use of relevant and timely information on programme scale, relevance, and effectiveness. Within this context, the MEAL Manager will provide technical support to in-country staff pertaining to M+E and build capacity in the country mission by identifying and supporting the implementation of effective, cost efficient and meaningful M&E systems. The BRCiS consortium works with different research firms, consultants and other institutions. The MEAL manager will be in charge of all learning purposes and with strong collaboration with the Advocacy and Communication officer will ensure a strong dissemination of all learnings.

Job description

Under the strategic direction of the Consortium Manager, strengthen and implement an M&E System for the Consortium.

Promote the standardization of M&E processes throughout the consortium, ensuring coherence and quality of information collected against planned results and activities.

Ensure standardisation of tools for all consortium members to undertake regular program monitoring including carrying assessments, establishing baseline surveys, documenting progress, conducting Post-Distribution Monitoring (PDM) and endline surveys and evaluations

In consultation with the Consortium member’s M&E departments, develop M&E SOPs, including procedures, tools and guidance documents.

Further develop the information data platform of the BRCiS to be more user friendly and community participative in close partnership with IT consultants.

Support the roll out of mobile phone data collection by training field staff, guiding in the creation of questionnaire templates and providing technical support.

Conduct training on the M&E Framework for implementing partners and local staff
Coordinate closely with the external research partners to ensure that research activities are successfully implemented

Provide technical and surge support to the consortium members on M&E processes, outcome monitoring, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis for assessments, donor reporting and other processes

Facilitate learning amongst the consortium members through reviews of progress against bench marks, collecting lessons learnt and best practices and facilitating dissemination of the same across consortium members

Building on the Consortium existing strengths, lead the development of a web-based dashboard to facilitate Consortium Members’ access to relevant information from the data collected through Digital Data Gathering (DDG) technology.

Establish and implement an Accountability Framework with an ingrained Complaints Response and Feedback Mechanism (CRFM) for timely decision making and improvements to programming

Hold meetings with the DFID and DEVCO M&E advisers and consultants on a quarterly basis to ensure smooth coordination and to check that consortium tools are in line with DFID standards

Prepare lessons and best practice reports for external and internal sharing
Support all consortium members in setting-up mobile phone texting platform for

Early Warning System (EWS) messaging

Provide the Consortium Manager with key programmatic issues and/or resilience related issues that need further investigation through research.

Promote innovation

We offer

Commencement: ASAP
Contract period: 12 months
Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions
Duty station: Nairobi.
Approved health certificate will be requested before contract start
This vacancy is now closed.
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