Deadline: 30 March, 2021

Location: Niger, Nigeria 

Plan International is seeking to fill the role of Monitoring and Evaluation Officer.

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and implementation of programme monitoring and evaluation plans to capture project performance and results, including data reporting, assessments, and all monitoring and evaluation activities
• Ensure proper understanding of the World Bank independent verification methodology
• Contribute to the monthly and quarterly project target review sessions
• Support the development of data flow pattern for project that will ensure timely data collection and reporting
• Support to ensure monitoring and evaluation-specific elements of local partner capacity strengthening plans are successfully implemented
• Report results of monitoring and evaluation activities by providing written documentation about progress toward achieving indicators/targets
• Support leadership at project location level on monitoring and evaluation to ensure the programme technical integrity
• In close collaboration with the field team and the monitoring and evaluation manager, ensure high-quality implementation and consistency in protocols, information and reporting systems
• Lead efforts at project location to monitor and evaluate project interventions, document results and provide feedback to stakeholders to guide decision making
• Lead efforts to utilise training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events
• Utilise the training data collected to inform strategic decision making and project planning
• Support targeted evaluation and operations research, including design, data collection, management and analysis
• Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures, including routine data quality audit
• Support field level partner staff, community-based project management committee (CBPMC) and enumerators in designing, developing and deploying tools for community-based selection criteria for the selection of beneficiaries
• Lead in the conduct of assessments, field level market price, and post distribution monitoring, data collection, analysis and reporting of results
• Facilitate monitoring and evaluation capacity-building activities with project staff and implementing partners
• Ensure Plan International’s global policies for safeguarding children and young people and gender equality and inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and three years, minimum, of work experience in monitoring and evaluating programmes with an organisation that has a robust monitoring and evaluation component
• Experience with Plan International or local partner organisation (preferred)
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, research, reporting, data quality assessments, data analysis and presentation
• Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple counterparts in private, public and NGO sectors
• Strong understanding of monitoring and evaluation, policy and compliance requirements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English including excellent facilitation skills and demonstrated technical writing skills for publication
• Ability to work effectively with diverse national and international teams
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
• Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyse data using one or more statistical software packages
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office packages (Excel and Word

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