Summary
Date Posted: Friday, January 20, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

ACCOUNTABILITIES
Leadership and Strategic Alignment
• Contribute to the development process of the strategic business plan (SBP), ensuring that change objectives are developed to achieve change in the lives of people that we work with.
• Support routine quarterly and annual reporting of the SBP including reporting on the global indicators
• Provide data on the global indicators and show progress against targets
• Ensure that Practical Action’s work draws on learning and innovation and is shared effectively with the wider Practical Action organization.
• Ensure that gender is embedded in projects and measured as part of the organization’s impact
• Strengthening Profile, Generating Funding and Managing Relationships
• Contribute to the proposal development process by participating in design workshops that build proposals
• Ensure that MEAL, gender assessments and learning and reflection is built into proposals (log frames and budgets)
• Ensure learning from program delivery feeds into organizational profile strengthening through stories of change and impact reporting.
• Participate in regional learning forums and opportunities to showcase the organization’s impact. Delivering Quality
• Develop project level MEL plans that ensure tracking of programme results at different levels (outputs, outcomes and impact)
• Work with communication teams to develop and share knowledge to both internal and external stakeholders/audiences, including print and electronic information
• Develop and maintain online databases and ensure regular data updates and data integrity
• Effectively formulate, implement, and enforce proper data collection tools, processes and procedures for the project
• Monitor and evaluate overall progress on achievement of results including the sustainability of the project results
• Aggregate and analyse data from across the project interventions to contribute to management decision-making and reporting
• Conduct field visits for data validation and to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets; coordinate data collection at project sites and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data
• Work closely with project team and partners to ensure appropriate feedback mechanisms are incorporated into project
• Conduct project level review, learning and reflection sessions, as specified in the MEAL framework as a key accountability mechanism
• Collate project learning along with ensuring effective knowledge management between departments and affiliates to ensure the whole organisation benefits from and applies programmatic learning.
• Oversee quality project baseline, mid and end evaluations (using PLA tools) and ensure findings are reflected on and evaluation management responses prepared practicalaction.org
• Ensure timely reporting: monthly, quarterly, annual and end of projects reports in accordance with donor requirements.
• Build capacity of MEL/Project teams to undertake project level MEL activities including data collection, analysis and quality reporting
• Ensure gender and inclusions is embedded in MEAL

PERSON PROFILE
To be successful in the role, the ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate:
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
• Fluency in Swahili and English
• Existing strong relationships and networks in the development space
• IT skills
• Knowledge of gender and safeguarding best practices
• A team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills – able to listen to others, to identify and share important/key information and to influence others in the uptake of new or adapted approaches.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

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  not 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 names of 3 referees in your CV.


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