M&E and KM Service Manager Director 19 views

MSD is a non-profit, civic society organization founded in 1999 to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Since then, MSD works to strengthen the socio-economic development of the wider community, and the nation at large. Working with partners and stakeholders, MSD advance the voice of citizens and community structures in service delivery, identifying priority needs, provide support and services to target groups with education, skills and promote opportunity to get along with assets. Aligned to its vision, mission and strategic objectives, MSD has been working in different development, emergency and humanitarian endeavors including HIV Prevention, care and support, Orphan and vulnerable children (OCV) care and support, Sexual and Reproductive health (SRH),Family Planning (FP), Gender Based Violence (GBV), migration, child protection and environmental protection. Through these technical area and services, it reached different hard to reach target groups including early married girls, GBV survivor, OVCs, refugees, PLHA, commercial sex workers and their clients, waitresses, long truck drivers, CSOs, CBOs and the community. At community level, the organization works with community members and community based social service providing institutions, schools, health facilities, government line offices, marginalized groups and professional associations.

MSD is a child safe organization and all successful applicants will be required to sign the Safeguarding Code of Conduct. The safety and wellbeing of children and at-risk adults are priorities of MSD. The organization provides a safe environment in all its programs and activities. It has strong recruitment procedures to make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in its programs.

JOB SUMMARY

Under the supervision of the Executive Director, the Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management (MEKM) Service Director is responsible for the overall participatory planning, coordinating, appraisal, monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment and timely reporting of MSD activities. She/he renders technical monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management support to target Area and Project Coordination offices and assists in demonstrating progress against strategic objectives at MSD level. MEKM Service Manager is also responsible for assisting the generation of regular and ad hoc reports for internal and external purposes.

Reports to:

• Executive Director

Location:

• Addis Ababa

Salary:

• Negotiable subject to organizational salary scale

Required Number:

• 1(one)

Gender:

• Both Female and Male. Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply

Term of Employment:

• Contract

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Job Responsibility #1: Planning and Implementation:

• Develops and implements annual monitoring and evaluation plans along with the detail work plans for implementation;
• Develops plan for program/project related capacity building on monitoring and evaluation;
• Involves in the process of developing plans of the respective programs;
• Coordinates mid and final evaluation efforts including data collection and analysis;
• Assists the development of M&E system, regularly tracks project progress and facilitates impact evaluation in terms of project’s contribution towards achieving wider objectives and goals;
• In collaboration with other project units and partners, plans and coordinates joint monitoring visits and project review sessions;
• Maintains proper monitoring cheek list for the program/project offices and the organization;
• Organizes data base of the project intervention targets and conducts regular monitoring with project team;
• Provides technical assistance for project staff and the organization on data gathering, documenting and reporting; makes field visits and uses other appropriate methods to assess progress and impacts of projects implemented by project area and organization;
• Organizes project evaluations against the original project and suggests ways of correcting deviations; consolidates monitoring and evaluation findings/data and makes available for the Area Office Manager and Project Office Coordinators and other staff;
• Assists the presentation, delivery and documentation of research or key learning pieces to key stakeholders and policy makers involved in all project efforts;
• Makes sure project data is timely entered into data base: properly analyzes data and generates analytical summaries to be used for reporting;
• Document best experiences and lessens for learning;
• Compiles shares and disseminates lesson learned, promising practices and challenge.

Job Responsibility #2: Knowledge Management:

• Contributes to MSD efforts to become transformed into a leading knowledge-based organization with the view to ensure competencies and deliver quality implementation of its programs/projects by way of promoting cross learning among partners;
• Undertakes operation research including success stories and case studies;
• Builds partner’s capacity to effectively manage knowledge and follows up how the available knowledge is utilized or translated into action;
• Works with the various technical teams to coordinate capacity building modules and gathers information on lessons learned;
• Coaches and supports partner M&E staff;
• Coordinates, with program coordinators and officers, capturing and dissemination of best practices across the various MSD implementing partners;
• Acts as a contact person for knowledge management and provides guidance on knowledge management in all aspects of the program;
• Provides technical support to partners to build skills and develop effective strategies of managing and utilizing knowledge and learning;
• Supports MSD to develop strategies and action plan to integrate knowledge management and learning in every development project.

Job Responsibility #3: Reporting and Communication:

• Guides staff and implementing partners in preparing their progress reports;
• Reviews monitoring reports and analyzes them for impact evaluation and to identify the causes of potential bottlenecks in program/project implementation;
• Prepares consolidated progress reports to be submitted to the Executive Director;
• Ensures that all reports have gender disaggregated data and free of any gender stereotypes;
• Compiles a quarterly monitoring and evaluation report and submit to his/her supervisor;
• Facilitates compilation of regular monitoring reports prepared by different projects along with evaluation recommendations;
• Closely communicates with all involved in M&E design: Executive Director, Program Director and program officers;
• Closely works with Partnership and Communication Manager in the documentation and dissemination of best practices, case studies and outcomes of program/project reviews.

Job Responsibility #4: Other:

• Takes part in the overall policy, program procedure and strategy development of MSD in general;
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Executive Director.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION/TRAINING

• MA/MSc/MPH or BA/BSc in Economics, Statistics, and Sociology, Gender & Development or other related field.

EXPERIENCE

• 5/7 years of work experiences in relevant jobs;

TECHNICAL AND OTHER SKILLS

• Demonstrated experience in designing, implementing and monitoring activities;
• Demonstrated experience in organizing and developing skills in MEKM plans;
• Competency in computer applications;
• Good command of written and verbal communication;
• Excellent in communication and interpersonal and presentation skills;
• Well organized and ability to act in a professional and ethical manner;
• Willingness to work under pressure.