Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer job at Practical Action Kenya
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Vacancy title:
Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Business Management and Administration , Category: Consultant ]

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Practical Action Kenya

Deadline of this Job:
02 February 2023  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, January 19, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
About the role
• Practical Action is commencing a five-year project that will be implemented in Kisumu, Homabay, Siaya, Migori, Nyamira, Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia and Vihiga Counties. The project aims to make agriculture an attractive and resilient employer for young people by promoting agricultural livelihoods for the youth underpinned by agro-ecological principles and practices. The project aims to break the cycles of low productivity and increasing rural poverty, through a holistic approach which will enable young men and women to increase their income through agri-business.
• As the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, you will be the lead technical staff responsible for program level monitoring, evaluation and reporting of performance and results, lead efforts to strengthen MEAL within specific projects including building the capacity of project staff to monitor, document and analyse the performance of their interventions/activities and ensure data quality. You will also be responsible for development and implementation of continuous quality improvement systems to ensure ongoing program improvement and reaching of targets and ensure program data is tracked, verified and reported and supporting documentation is maintained.
• As an experienced Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning professional, you will have a degree in development studies or any other relevant degree and minimum of five (5 )years’ work experience in knowledge management, monitoring and evaluating programs with an organization with a robust M&E component, experience of using indicators at output, outcome and goal level and developing tools to measure this, strong experience in evaluation methodologies such as outcome mapping and Most Significant Change, experience of building in gender and inclusion into project design and MEAL aspects, experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection and management, experience in gathering learnings and then promoting their application and experience of building capacity of staff on MEL.

Experience & Knowledge Essential
Desirable

• Bachelors’ degree in Development Studies or any other relevant degree and minimum of 5 years’ work experience in knowledge management, monitoring and evaluating programs with an organization with a robust M&E component.
• Strong technical skills including use of PowerBI or Tableau
• Experience of using indicators at output, outcome and goal level and developing tools to measure this
• Strong experience in evaluation methodologies such as outcome mapping and Most Significant Change
• A passion and experience of building in gender and inclusion into project design and MEAL aspects
• Successful track record of implementing effective MEL systems, including experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection and management.
• Experience in gathering learnings and then promoting their application
• Experience of building capacity of staff on MEL
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills to understand the range and content of the organization’s thematic work and provide practical solutions to operational challenges.
• Commitment to and ideally an understanding of safeguarding

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8


Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
• If you are ready for an exciting challenge with an organisation whose mission and values are particularly relevant in these rapidly changing times, please forward your application, curriculum vitae and cover letter to: Practical Action, Kenya Office by email: recruitment@practicalaction.or.ke  no later than 2nd February, 2023 indicating ‘Practical Action: Job Title Position’ in the subject line of the email. Your cover letter should outline why you feel this is the position for you and you are the right candidate. Please include the names of 3 referees in your CV.

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Job Info
Job Category: Consultant/ Contractual jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 02 February 2023
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 19-01-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 19-01-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 19-01-2066
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