M&E Officer  

Company: World Relief Rwanda (WRR)

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To facilitate the implementation of its activities, World Relief Rwanda wishes to recruit a qualified and well-experienced candidate to fill the position of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer.

The job description and other requirements are as follows:

  Job description:

Position title:

M&E Officer  

Department/Division:

Programs

Title of supervisor:

Health & Social Protection Senior Program Manager

Location:

Kigali, Rwanda

Start date:

Immediate

Length of assignment:

A number of positions open:

12 months

1

 

 

Purpose of the Job:

This role will lead and coordinate the M&E component of the Maternal, Infant, and Young Children Nutrition (MIYCN) Programme (Abarinzi b’imikurire myiza) ensuring that M&E is embedded within the programme activities; tailored to national contexts and contributes to on-going learning. The incumbent will have strong analytical and research skills; experience in the development of study designs, experience in designing monitoring and evaluation tools for behavior change programmes, and proven capacity to support others in a range of evaluation and data collection methodologies. The role involves supporting the project team, community leadership, and volunteers in the documentation of key human interest stories, impact stories, best practices, and other learnings throughout the life of the project. S/he also contributes significantly to the planning and overall implementation process of the Programme ensuring consistent compliance with the programme design.

Specific job duties:

Lead on monitoring and evaluation for the MIYCN (Abarinzi b’imikurire myiza) project.

  1. Work with the Health and Social Protection Senior Manager and other programme staff to embed monitoring and evaluation into the project. This includes designing the overall approach for M&E within the Programme.
  2. Design and roll-out of monitoring tools that will be used to track progress and capture data at process and impact level across the programme geo-coverage areas. These include both qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys. 
  3. Manage the documentation process of the programme ensuring quality and timely capturing and documentation of impact stories about the programme.
  4. Ensure programmatic data are regularly collected, processed, analyzed, and shared time with relevant programme partners and stakeholders. 
  5. Create succinct reports that will inform program manager, staff, and partners of the progress of the programme 
  6. Provide advice on needs assessment and analysis, monitoring, and evaluation methodologies in order to develop a consistent and continually improving approach to collecting and using data.
  7. Assist others to put in place and carry out appropriate outcome-focused evaluation processes for the project. For example, helping to develop logic models and evaluation frameworks
  8. Promote the use of learning from evidence and evaluation and share and promote the use of performance and impact reports across the districts to drive learning, business improvements, planning, and strategy.

This job description is not exhaustive and serves only to highlight the main requirements of the post holder. The line manager may stipulate other reasonable requirements. 

Knowledge, skills, & abilities:

  • Minimum Bachelor Degree in  Public Health, Social Sciences, Statistics or equivalent degree in a related field
  • Competent in the use of Microsoft Office application, statistical packages such as SPSS, Stata, CSPro, or SAS.
  • Excellent questionnaire design and programming using any electronic data collection applications (such as ODK, Kobo, SurveyCTO, ONA, CommCare, etc.)
  • Strong interpersonal skills are vital.
  • Strong capacity building and facilitation skills
  • Ability to work with minimum supervision, and to deal with problems/issues promptly and efficiently
  • Ability to maintain performance expectations in conditions with limited resources.
  • Excellent written and spoken in English and Kinyarwanda,  French is an added value

 

Experience required:

  • 3 years’ experience   in the field of monitoring and evaluation, experience in nutrition-related surveys would be a plus
  • Demonstrated experience in  needs or capacity gap analysis, data collection, data cleaning, analysis, and reporting

 

Physical demands:

  • Willingness to travel or work in the Programme District (Kicukiro, Rubavu, Nyamagabe, Burera, or Gatsibo)

  How to apply

Please submit a motivation letter for the position you are applying for, a copy of your notified degree, comprehensive curriculum vitae with 3 names of referees and a church recommendation from your Pastor or Priest by 31st of August 2020 to World Relief Rwanda Office, plot 53, KG 647 St, Kacyiru, Kigali. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified of the tests.

 

Done at Kigali on August 20th, 2020

 

Jacqueline Mukashema

Director of Administration and Finance

 

         

 

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