Monitoring & Evaluation Officer – On Call Africa

Job Description

Number of Vacancies: 1

Position Reports To: Monitoring And Evaluation Manager

Supervision: Nil

Location: Livingstone

The Role
The Monitoring & Evaluation Officer (M&E) Officer is an exciting new role to drive excellence in measuring OCA’s impact. The aim of the role is to ensure our work is being measured for both internal learning as well as external reporting and sharing.

The purpose of the position is to provide leadership and support in the development and operationalization of an M&E system, including M&E plans at program and partner levels, and ensure that the system aligns with OCA’s M&E indicators; Support the team and partner staff in M&E capacity to monitor and demonstrate progress and outcomes of interventions. In addition, the M&E Officer will be supervising data management support to the program, to help strengthen data quality checks and ensure that data is of high quality, supporting the Program team to carry out on-site data verifications, strengthening program quality and accountability and generating evidence, documentation of innovations and their outcomes at all levels of the program.

The M&E Officer will also ensure quality of program activities at OCA and partner level are assessed against set quality benchmarks; that program stakeholder input is sought at different levels; and program findings are shared with the stakeholders and feedback incorporated into program decision-making process, for accountability and learning.

Flexible Working

OCA works with remote rural communities and staff are required to camp out in these communities when delivering on assignments. Field Staff are expected to work flexibly, including evenings and weekends as may be required by work assignments.

Responsibilities and Tasks

Leadership and Coordination in the Development and Operationalisation of an M&E System and Capacity Building
Tasks:

• Provide leadership support in all aspects of M&E for the programs.
• Work with M&E manager in the development of the M&E plans and implementation strategy, ensuring that all interventions are well captured and indicators of monitoring progress and measuring outcomes are technically sound and captured.
• Support compliance to the program M&E Plan at all levels and monitoring compliance of partners and OCA’s M&E plans.
• Working with the M&E Manager to develop tools for data collection and reporting, and their guidelines for use and ensuring that compliance to the tools is achieved.
• Develop assessments and identification of program beneficiaries, program database and ensure the same is updated monthly and reports generated, as often as per indicators for reporting progress at individual level and contextual level.
• Support monitoring of M&E activities as indicated in the work plan and against the M&E budget.
• Ensuring monitoring and reporting timelines are compiled to.
• Working closely with the program team provide quarterly progress updates on program activities against implementation and M&E plan and ensuring that the actions proposed are incorporated to improve performance measurement.
• Working with the Program team to identify M&E capacity gaps and develop capacity building plans to address those gaps.
• Working closely with Program team to support the documentation of Human-Interest Stories and lessons learnt.
• Support the Program Managers in planning and facilitating program monitoring and evaluation strengthening activities for the program.

Providing Adequate Data Management Support to the Program While Ensuring That Data is of Highest Quality and There is Evidence of Adequate Support Documentation
Tasks:

• Responsible for updating the program database/performance framework monthly with verified performance results.
• Support in the development of database/data capturing tools.
• Closely working with the Program team, perform data quality checks/verification to all data received and collected with an aim of ensuring that program data is reliable and accurate.
• Together with the Program team, perform quarterly and annual monitoring support at field level and routinely support in conducting data audits/trails.
• Ensure that all program data support documents are appropriately stored for ease of retrieval during verification and other need basis.

Strengthened Collaboration and Networking
Tasks:

• Represent the Program in core monitoring and evaluation committees, Provincial and District engagements and related program activities as necessary.
• Represent the Program in decentralised M&E forums, selected M&E capacity building and strengthening forums with a view to keeping the program informed on current initiatives and developments in M&E and provide staffs updates from these forums.
• Perform any other duty as assigned by the supervisor, related to collaboration and networking.

Qualifications

1. Education:
   • Grade 12 Certificate
   • A bachelor’s degree in social science, Statistics, Demography, Economics, Health or related field – Master’s degree will be an added advantage
   • Training in M&E is required
   • Training in outcome harvesting will be an added advantage
2. Experience:
   • Five years of work experience in monitoring and evaluation of Health, Health systems strengthening and CHW work.
   • Familiarity with performance and results-based funding systems and procedures.
   • Ability to develop and implement monitoring and evaluation plans
   • Excellent data analysis and report writing skills
   • Computer literacy, particularly in the use of MS Access, MS Excel and statistical packages (SPSS, STATA, EPI INFO etc)
3. Competencies:
   • Data and information presentation skills
   • Strong mentorship and partnership skills
   • Analytical capacity
   • Excellent inter-personal, facilitation skills and communication skills
   • Person of high moral character and professional integrity
   • Ability to work with minimal supervision
   • Ability to operate effectively under difficult circumstances and to interact effectively with a geographically dispersed multicultural team.

How to Apply
To apply please complete the google form by clicking here.

You will be asked to answer some questions and to upload:

• Your CV (no more than three sides)
• A cover letter (no more than 1 side) setting out why you are applying for the role and how you meet the criteria in the person specification

Applications must be submitted, using the form, by 17:00 on 26th January 2024.

Only applications submitted using the google form will be accepted. Please note that CVs and cover letters submitted by email will not be considered for this role.