Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, December 01, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Key Responsibilities:
Designation: MEAL Officer
Location: Kajiado County, Kenya
Grade Level: 13
Reporting Line: Project Manager
Project: KOICA SEED

Program/Project Planning
• Together with the project team and partners, organize and facilitate Strategic/multiyear Plans/designs and budgets for the overall Project
• Support the development of annual project plans and budgets.
• Support local partner engagement forums including project beneficiaries.
• Support review and update logframes, M&E Plans, Project indicators and periodic targets and detailed implementation plans.
• Support the development of clear and implementable work break down structure for respective Project activities as needed
• Support the finance team to ensure realistic scheduling of project activities and budgetsIdentify and document the project assets and produce a Remote Sensing /GIS activity /project map.

Implementation, Technical Support and Quality Assurance
• Coordinate the successful roll out and implementation of all MEAL related initiatives in the project site of Kajiado and Narok Counties.
• Disseminate clear business processes for respective MEAL components to ensure consistent application and adherence to standards
• Develop and support implementation of project MEAL annual calendars
• Ensure that realistic project targets are set a and tracked.
• Organize and conduct project level data quality audits and validation forums.
• Lead the process of capacity assessments and capacity building for staff and for potential local partners.
• Ensure that respective staff and WVK implementing partners are provided with requisite MEAL technical support to perform.
• Coordinate effective implementation of project Activities in collaboration with key partners and the MEAL Coordinator at the secretariat.
• Coordinate and facilitate timely review and sharing of all project documents; plans/designs and reports.

Monitoring, Reporting and Accountability
• Support the implementation of a digital data collection and beneficiary tracking system and database
• support the design of a monitoring framework to track delivery against project targets/objectives.
• Support the development and dissemination of data collection tools.
• Coordinate field level monitoring of WVK activities and its implementing partners.
• Coordinate, participate and report on technical field monitoring visits.
• Ensure timely data collection, collating, & analysing, synthesizing information, updating the monitoring matrix and other monitoring systems are in place.
• Ensure timely dissemination of monitoring data to key stakeholders for management decision making.
• Support remote sensing and GIS Mapping of Project initiatives
• support the appropriate use of information management systems in compliance with WV Kenya, GoK, and donor and in line with partnership agreements.
• Coordinate the compilation and submission of project management reports as per WV standards and donor requirements.
• Support establishment of accountability mechanisms for the project to enhance information sharing, complaints management and timely feedback flow.

Research, Learning and Knowledge Management
• Support periodic reviews/evaluations of the project interventions using appropriate methodologies (such as LQAs) to determine achievements
• Ensure that the project assessments, feasibility studies and or characterization processes are conducted in a timely manner and quality reports are produced as per standard.
• Coordinate inter-county exchange meetings on MEAL for lessons learnt and upscale to regional and secretariat level intervention
• Facilitate effective project level knowledge management (KM) mechanisms including documentation and sharing of innovative/promising/best practices or lessons learned and impacts.
• Organize and conduct learning forums/events at regular points to facilitate learning by the partners
• Facilitate ongoing and collaborative learning within WVK and partners based on key data from the performance management system.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
The holder of this position must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences, Sociology, Economics/statistics, or equivalent degree in a relevant field;
• At least 5 years professional experience in Project/ Program design implementation, M&E and learning cycles
• Results orientated person able to manage and satisfy multiple and at times conflicting organizational, donor and other stakeholder demands;
• Experience in the execution of development cooperation projects and consortiums
• Post graduate training in Project Planning and Management, M&E or Statistics, Information Science, Climate Change/ Natural Resource Management or related studies is an added advantage
• Must also have ample experience in public relations and be a strong team player
• Statistical training certification especially on data analysis, advanced excel, SPSS, On-line data collection platforms

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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