Monitoring & evaluation specialist

An international ngo seek to employ for its nigeria country office, abuja a monitoring & evaluation specialist

Job Summary
The Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist is responsible for leading the work of the monitoring and evaluation country team and, on behalf of the Country Representative, providing oversight of M&E work within projects. His/her main responsibility is to ensure that each project has an appropriate M&E plan in place to monitor project performance and evaluate the effectiveness of its activities, and that will enable projects to fulfill their reporting responsibilities using meaningful data.

This includes ensuring that all country projects are effectively implementing data collection to permit accurate and timely reporting to donors, the Country Representative, and Pathfinder International senior management. This also includes developing tools and conducting training for program managers to improve use of data for performance improvement. To do this effectively will require gaining a full understanding of PI programs within the Country Office and will involve direct technical and management support to project M&E officers and the country M&E team.

Key Tasks:
· Ensure that sound M&E plans are fully developed and implemented for all Pathfinder Nigeria projects, including providing guidance as needed to project M&E staff to:

• • Select appropriate project indicators and data sources, design feasible M&E plans, and implement data collection and reporting systems
  • Develop individual and M&E Team work plans and training plans for local implementing partners as appropriate
  • Develop or adapt tools for data collection and design and implement project surveys and other data collection tasks
  • Plan for and select qualified consultants and critically assess consultant reports and other deliverables

· Lead the development and/or implementation of an appropriate system for collecting and synthesizing monitoring and evaluation data from each project to enable the Country Office to collect and report on data related to all projects.
· Design or adapt project/country performance monitoring database to report National and global indicator and performance indicator data quarterly to project managers, Country Representatives, and to Pathfinder headquarters
· Institute regular use of performance monitoring data among project managers, Country Offices, and other relevant Pathfinder staff

• Ensure that all donor and Pathfinder requirements related to project M&E are fulfilled in a timely manner

· Supervise country M&E team members to:
· Review quarterly reports from projects prior to submission to donors and headquarters

• • Manage production of all reporting requirements including quarterly and annual reports, research, technical reports, presentations, etc.

· Develop or adapt and implement M&E guidelines for the Country Office and ensure that each project has similar guidelines tailored to their work

• • Provide overall guidance and manage all the M&E related efforts, communicating as needed with headquarters M&E and other staff
• Provide and/or support M&E training for Pathfinder staff and grantees as appropriate

· Develop M&E plans for proposals for future projects and/or review project proposals from the programmatic M&E perspective
· Design methods and scopes of work for and take an active role in project and program reviews
· Support field M&E staff to comply with data requirements for internal and external program reviews
· Disseminate Pathfinder International monitoring and evaluation policy and standard procedures, as appropriate, and collaborate with M&E Unit staff at headquarters in development of organization-wide monitoring and evaluation guidelines
· Develop M&E resources and tools for Pathfinder staff as appropriate.
· Disseminate information on Pathfinder project and program evaluations through written reports, conference presentations and publications and assist project staff to do so
· Build capacity of PI staff especially Project Managers on the use of data for decision making and performance improvements.
· Be part of the Knowledge Management team that will vigorously work on sharing project learning and other resources from within and without for enhanced organizational effectiveness.
· Perform other duties, as assigned.




Job Requirements:
· An advanced degree in demography, epidemiology, statistics, social sciences or related field
· At least ten years of progressively responsible experience in monitoring and evaluating health/development projects
· Proven leadership and management skills
· Strong analytical, problem-solving and presentation skills
· Demonstrated ability to work effectively with various constituencies including Pathfinder headquarters, donor agencies, and local partners
· Experienced user of software packages, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and at least one statistical software package (SPSS, EPI-INFO, STATA, SAS or similar)
· Experience with database construction and/or management, preferably with ACCESS application
· Fluency in both written and spoken English and local languages required
· Proven ability to work independently and with attention to detail
· Ability to travel extensively throughout the country

Send your suitability statement and CV to erecruitment9@yahoo. com on or before Friday, November 4, 2011