Data, Monitoring and Research Jobs at International Rescue Committee, Danish Refugee Council (DRC),AIC Health Ministries , World Vision Kenya and other companies and other companies

JOB DETAILS:
Deputy Director – Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis (ERICC)

Specific Responsibilities
• Grant fund. We will allocate funds (approx. £2.4M in total) to partners in ERICC focal countries to support the cost of piloting, scaling up and adapting education programmes.

Pre-Award
• Develop standard operating procedures for the fund, including eligibility criteria, appropriate vetting, due diligence, compliance procedures, procedures for avoiding real or perceived conflict of interest, and financial management.
• Assess the number, size, and length of grants to be funded and number of funding windows.
• Set up appropriate arrangements with FCDO for IRC to act as an agent to grant funds.
• Work with web developers to build a portal for proposal submission and review, including ensuring accessibility and equity for all marginalized groups
• Develop information strategy for potential applicants and build Frequently Asked Questions
• Coordinate calls for proposals, initial screening & vetting, and crafting the scoring criteria.
• Establish and convene the proposal Review Panel.

Post-Award
• Onboard Grantees and provide technical assistance, and ensure regular reporting.
• Support grantees, particularly smaller organizations, on financial systems, monitoring, and evaluation (M&E), safeguarding, risk management and governance.
• Develop procedures for disbursement of, and invoicing for, grant funds
• Coordinate with grantees to receive and review timely narrative and financial grant reports
• Build systems to identify problems at the grantee level and to put in place remedial actions.
• Supervise projects against objectives and in compliance with donor and IRC guidelines.
• Draft responses to FCDO enquiries or Parliamentary Questions.
• Share progress reports with the ERICC Research Directorate and FCDO.

Closeout
• Lead Grantees Closeout Process including issuing closure letters, feedback form, closeout meeting, closeout audit, asset disposal processes, and documentation filling.
• Provide operational, financial and contractual oversight of the programme, including:
• Serve as the primary liaison for FCDO contractual compliance and contract management.
• Ensure sound financial management (forecasting, monitor budget vs actuals, cash flow, etc)
• Conduct financial analysis to ensure value for money and adequate funding to achieve results
• Contracting with partners, including vetting, pre-award assessment, and agreeing on budgets and special conditions.
• Support workplanning based on priorities identified by programme leadership.
• Support the preparation and submission of donor reports.
• Ensure strong risk management and mitigation.
• Ensure institutional capacity strengthening for project sub-contractors on key issues such as governance, key policies, human resources, transparency, safeguarding, and finance.
• Lead process for consultancies and commissioned work.
• To deputize the Programme Director when required.

Experience
Essential Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications:
• Significant experience in leading FCDO contracts, particularly operational, contracts, and financial leadership and management
• E xperience in running funds or other large granting mechanisms
• B udget development and spending plans, and supervise the financial health of projects
• Risk assessment and mitigation, due diligence assessments and/or audits
• Excellent written and oral English
• Excellent IT skills (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Track record of working on own initiative as well as on diverse teams.
• Maintaining positive relationships with collaborators, and having e xcellent communication skills
• Ability to lead varied workload and work under pressure

Preferred Experience And Skills
• Experience of working in international organisation or on a consortia
• Research project experience
• Having worked in one or more of: Jordan, Lebanon, Nigeria, Syria, South Sudan, Bangladesh and Myanmar


JOB DETAILS:
Economic Recovery Assistant – Financial Inclusion

Responsibilities:
R1. Project Management/Development, Monitoring & Evaluation:
• Support to plan, oversee and implement financial inclusion activities in DRC Urban Program within the project.
• Remain abreast of topical developments related to economic recovery and financial inclusion that will promote community participation in the financial sector hence improving their economic/livelihoods and well-being.
• Contribute to promote sector learning and knowledge management in the Livelihoods sector through: collating findings/ information collected from the field as well as routine monitoring to draw lessons.
• Support in community mobilization, sensitization, formation of groups and training on VSLAs (Village Savings & Loans Associations) as well as FED (Financial Enterprise Development) to promote financial inclusion amongst the vulnerable and unbanked communities.
• Contribute to developing and/or adopting sector guidelines and tools in support of Livelihoods program implementation.
• Support in submitting timely and high-quality activities/donor, and internal progress reports.
• Contribute in Livelihoods sector growth in scope through fundraising – identification of sector gaps and root causes analysis, and support in developing quality concept notes/proposals with corresponding activity budgets.
• Support the Financial Inclusion team in project kick-off, review and closure meetings including periodic program review, planning and external meetings as often as requested by the supervisor.
• Assist in ensuring the sector adheres to CHS (Core-Humanitarian Standards) Principles in project implementation; participate in CHS audits and support M&E plan.
R2. Technical Implementation:
• Contribute to implementation of technical activities related to financial inclusion including building the capacity of VSLAs as well as work with digital partners to digitize VSLAs.
• Support to conduct training in financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills, working with micro-businesses to strengthen business plans and operations.
• Coach and mentor entrepreneurs to be able to scale up their businesses.
• Support entrepreneurs through market linkages, business information and access to finance through the relevant partners in the project.
R3. Coordination & Partnership:
• Support to develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders, including urban refugee and host community members and leaders, NGOs, UN agencies, DRS (Department of Refugees Services), FSP (financial service Providers) and other DRC team members including partners to enhance multi-agency and multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination on response activities.
• Contribute to promoting collaboration and synergy between refugee-focused interventions and the host communities.
• Assist to actively participate and engage in relevant coordination meetings and collaborate with other agencies of relevance/value add to DRC’s urban agenda.
R4. Budget Management:
• Provide support to ensure sound budget expenditure, adherence to DRC financial procedures and donor requirements as related to the financial inclusion sector.
• Contribute to drafting spending plans, procurement plans, and work plans based on financial inclusion activities and budgets.
• Assist to participate in Budget Follow-Up (BFU) meetings to ensure the budget is tracked and over/under expenditures are addressed in time in consultation with the Economic Recovery Officer and Project Manager.

Experience and technical competencies:
• Minimum of 2 years + of field experience in implementing economic recovery/financial inclusion programming in an International NGO or other relevant agency.
• Experience in financial inclusion interventions and models (VSLA/GS&L, co-operative societies, Grameen, village banks) is an added advantage.
• Good technical experience in financial inclusion programming including working with VSLAs, developing the capacity of micro-enterprises, working with micro-loans programs/formal financial institutions and providing financial inclusion and entrepreneurship training. Experience working with ‘sharia-compliant’ financing is an added advantage.
• Experience in working with digital service providers and digital financial services including the implementation of digital solutions is desirable.
• Good project management skills, with experience managing multiple location, sector project budgets.
• Experience working in urban displacement responses and in multi-sectoral interventions.
• Experience in the digitization of savings groups, enterprises, or social associations is an added advantage.
• Good planning, organizational and problem-solving skills with ability to work both independently and within a team in a demanding working environment.
• Good analytical and strategic planning skills.
• A demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with host governments/communities, donors, partners, local organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Good level of communication and interpersonal skills.

Education:
• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Business Management, Economics, Entrepreneurship or Community Development or its equivalent).
• Fluency in written and spoken English is essential

JOB DETAILS:
Economic Recovery Assistant – Financial Inclusion

Responsibilities:
R1. Project Management/Development, Monitoring & Evaluation:
• Support to plan, oversee and implement financial inclusion activities in DRC Urban Program within the project.
• Remain abreast of topical developments related to economic recovery and financial inclusion that will promote community participation in the financial sector hence improving their economic/livelihoods and well-being.
• Contribute to promote sector learning and knowledge management in the Livelihoods sector through: collating findings/ information collected from the field as well as routine monitoring to draw lessons.
• Support in community mobilization, sensitization, formation of groups and training on VSLAs (Village Savings & Loans Associations) as well as FED (Financial Enterprise Development) to promote financial inclusion amongst the vulnerable and unbanked communities.
• Contribute to developing and/or adopting sector guidelines and tools in support of Livelihoods program implementation.
• Support in submitting timely and high-quality activities/donor, and internal progress reports.
• Contribute in Livelihoods sector growth in scope through fundraising – identification of sector gaps and root causes analysis, and support in developing quality concept notes/proposals with corresponding activity budgets.
• Support the Financial Inclusion team in project kick-off, review and closure meetings including periodic program review, planning and external meetings as often as requested by the supervisor.
• Assist in ensuring the sector adheres to CHS (Core-Humanitarian Standards) Principles in project implementation; participate in CHS audits and support M&E plan.
R2. Technical Implementation:
• Contribute to implementation of technical activities related to financial inclusion including building the capacity of VSLAs as well as work with digital partners to digitize VSLAs.
• Support to conduct training in financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills, working with micro-businesses to strengthen business plans and operations.
• Coach and mentor entrepreneurs to be able to scale up their businesses.
• Support entrepreneurs through market linkages, business information and access to finance through the relevant partners in the project.
R3. Coordination & Partnership:
• Support to develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders, including urban refugee and host community members and leaders, NGOs, UN agencies, DRS (Department of Refugees Services), FSP (financial service Providers) and other DRC team members including partners to enhance multi-agency and multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination on response activities.
• Contribute to promoting collaboration and synergy between refugee-focused interventions and the host communities.
• Assist to actively participate and engage in relevant coordination meetings and collaborate with other agencies of relevance/value add to DRC’s urban agenda.
R4. Budget Management:
• Provide support to ensure sound budget expenditure, adherence to DRC financial procedures and donor requirements as related to the financial inclusion sector.
• Contribute to drafting spending plans, procurement plans, and work plans based on financial inclusion activities and budgets.
• Assist to participate in Budget Follow-Up (BFU) meetings to ensure the budget is tracked and over/under expenditures are addressed in time in consultation with the Economic Recovery Officer and Project Manager.

Experience and technical competencies:
• Minimum of 2 years + of field experience in implementing economic recovery/financial inclusion programming in an International NGO or other relevant agency.
• Experience in financial inclusion interventions and models (VSLA/GS&L, co-operative societies, Grameen, village banks) is an added advantage.
• Good technical experience in financial inclusion programming including working with VSLAs, developing the capacity of micro-enterprises, working with micro-loans programs/formal financial institutions and providing financial inclusion and entrepreneurship training. Experience working with ‘sharia-compliant’ financing is an added advantage.
• Experience in working with digital service providers and digital financial services including the implementation of digital solutions is desirable.
• Good project management skills, with experience managing multiple location, sector project budgets.
• Experience working in urban displacement responses and in multi-sectoral interventions.
• Experience in the digitization of savings groups, enterprises, or social associations is an added advantage.
• Good planning, organizational and problem-solving skills with ability to work both independently and within a team in a demanding working environment.
• Good analytical and strategic planning skills.
• A demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with host governments/communities, donors, partners, local organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Good level of communication and interpersonal skills.

Education:
• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Business Management, Economics, Entrepreneurship or Community Development or its equivalent).
• Fluency in written and spoken English is essential

JOB DETAILS:
Economic Recovery Assistant – Financial Inclusion

Responsibilities:
R1. Project Management/Development, Monitoring & Evaluation:
• Support to plan, oversee and implement financial inclusion activities in DRC Urban Program within the project.
• Remain abreast of topical developments related to economic recovery and financial inclusion that will promote community participation in the financial sector hence improving their economic/livelihoods and well-being.
• Contribute to promote sector learning and knowledge management in the Livelihoods sector through: collating findings/ information collected from the field as well as routine monitoring to draw lessons.
• Support in community mobilization, sensitization, formation of groups and training on VSLAs (Village Savings & Loans Associations) as well as FED (Financial Enterprise Development) to promote financial inclusion amongst the vulnerable and unbanked communities.
• Contribute to developing and/or adopting sector guidelines and tools in support of Livelihoods program implementation.
• Support in submitting timely and high-quality activities/donor, and internal progress reports.
• Contribute in Livelihoods sector growth in scope through fundraising – identification of sector gaps and root causes analysis, and support in developing quality concept notes/proposals with corresponding activity budgets.
• Support the Financial Inclusion team in project kick-off, review and closure meetings including periodic program review, planning and external meetings as often as requested by the supervisor.
• Assist in ensuring the sector adheres to CHS (Core-Humanitarian Standards) Principles in project implementation; participate in CHS audits and support M&E plan.
R2. Technical Implementation:
• Contribute to implementation of technical activities related to financial inclusion including building the capacity of VSLAs as well as work with digital partners to digitize VSLAs.
• Support to conduct training in financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills, working with micro-businesses to strengthen business plans and operations.
• Coach and mentor entrepreneurs to be able to scale up their businesses.
• Support entrepreneurs through market linkages, business information and access to finance through the relevant partners in the project.
R3. Coordination & Partnership:
• Support to develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders, including urban refugee and host community members and leaders, NGOs, UN agencies, DRS (Department of Refugees Services), FSP (financial service Providers) and other DRC team members including partners to enhance multi-agency and multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination on response activities.
• Contribute to promoting collaboration and synergy between refugee-focused interventions and the host communities.
• Assist to actively participate and engage in relevant coordination meetings and collaborate with other agencies of relevance/value add to DRC’s urban agenda.
R4. Budget Management:
• Provide support to ensure sound budget expenditure, adherence to DRC financial procedures and donor requirements as related to the financial inclusion sector.
• Contribute to drafting spending plans, procurement plans, and work plans based on financial inclusion activities and budgets.
• Assist to participate in Budget Follow-Up (BFU) meetings to ensure the budget is tracked and over/under expenditures are addressed in time in consultation with the Economic Recovery Officer and Project Manager.

Experience and technical competencies:
• Minimum of 2 years + of field experience in implementing economic recovery/financial inclusion programming in an International NGO or other relevant agency.
• Experience in financial inclusion interventions and models (VSLA/GS&L, co-operative societies, Grameen, village banks) is an added advantage.
• Good technical experience in financial inclusion programming including working with VSLAs, developing the capacity of micro-enterprises, working with micro-loans programs/formal financial institutions and providing financial inclusion and entrepreneurship training. Experience working with ‘sharia-compliant’ financing is an added advantage.
• Experience in working with digital service providers and digital financial services including the implementation of digital solutions is desirable.
• Good project management skills, with experience managing multiple location, sector project budgets.
• Experience working in urban displacement responses and in multi-sectoral interventions.
• Experience in the digitization of savings groups, enterprises, or social associations is an added advantage.
• Good planning, organizational and problem-solving skills with ability to work both independently and within a team in a demanding working environment.
• Good analytical and strategic planning skills.
• A demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with host governments/communities, donors, partners, local organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Good level of communication and interpersonal skills.

Education:
• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Business Management, Economics, Entrepreneurship or Community Development or its equivalent).
• Fluency in written and spoken English is essential


JOB DETAILS:
M&E Officer

Key Responsibilities and Duties:
• Review, analyse, and validate activities data to ensure consistency, integrity and accuracy based on project specific guidelines.
• Designing tools & protocols needed to verify inputs, outputs & outcomes and assess the quality of data generated.
• Preparation and submission of accurate and timely reports, to the donor, MoH KHIS2 and hard copies and other stakeholders, Participate in monitoring visits/forums with the SCHMT, other project staff, health care workers and CHVs. Design midterm and end line project evaluation.
• Take a role in knowledge management of staffs.
• Developing a monitoring & evaluation system and indicators including development of M&E framework impact indicator, and internal data collection besides the MoH tools.
• Perform data entry and management including data cleaning, and archiving to support the implementation of program activities and maintain documentation and standardizing data management procedures.
• Undertake routine data quality assessment (RDQA) and participate on capacity building of other staff.
• Verification of reports and data provided by CHVs, Field Officers and health care workers.
• Ensure relevant MoH/donor data collection and reporting tools are in place and are being used correctly by staff, CHVs, health care workers to collect required and accurate data for project monitoring and performance.
• Responsible in tracking accountability to affected persons activities such as client exit/ satisfaction interviews, CRM.
• Tracking project target programmatic and planned activities, monthly, quarterly and annually.
• Work with other technical coordinators to implement the measurement action strategy, with a focus using data for decision making and action.
• Any other duties deemed necessary by the supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications and Competencies:
• Bachelor’s degree in public health, epidemiology, surveillance from recognized institution.
• M/E certification course of not less than 3 months in an accredited institution of learning.
• Practical knowledge of database systems will be an added advantage; however, proficiency in MS-Office applications is a must.
• Minimum 3 years of experience working as an M&E Officer in public health related programs.

Other competencies:
• Monitoring and Evaluation Systems development, Logical frameworks, Performance indicators, impact analysis.
• Project proposal writing, enable to plan and coordinate baseline survey, project performance analysis and report writing.
• Must posses a solid understanding of health program
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English & Kiswahili is essential.


JOB DETAILS:
Main Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Support in Project Planning and Design
• Take lead in the design and implementation of a monitoring framework to track delivery against project objectives.
• Developing internal reporting schedules & templates, clarifying what level of information is needed and where, with key responsibilities assigned, and reviewing proposals, with a particular focus on checking log frames and ensuring indicators are SMART
• Review and update log frames, M&E Plans, Project indicators and periodic targets and detailed implementation plans.
• Support develop clear and implementable work break down structure for respective activities
• Identify and document the project geographical coverage and produce a RS/GIS activity /Project map.
• Participating in the development of tools and guidelines for data collection, collation and reporting, with a focus on establishing Output and outcome Tracking, systemically checking data for quality, accuracy, and consistency, and providing feedback as necessary;
• Contribute to the design of MEAL methodology and child-focused indicators by the project team, and to the promotion of child participation in M&E planning and accountability.
• Provide support and participate in project design (assessments baseline surveys)

Project Assessment, Monitoring, Reporting & Evaluation
• Provide technical support in implementing/mainstreaming the project M&E system to the existing M&E system in WVK.
• Monitor project implementation levels and report progress, impact and best practices.
• Provide technical guidance in carrying out baseline assessments, mid and end of project evaluations across the project location.
• Support development of ToR in collaboration with other project teams and identify specific data requirements
• Use process, output level quality benchmarks as reference to undertake field monitoring visits, focusing on programme quality aspects, discuss with relevant staff and share reports with relevant colleagues.
• Take charge of collating and analyzing data and synthesizing information, updating the monitoring matrix and other monitoring tools in place.
• Ensure timely analysis of monitoring data and dissemination to key stakeholders for management decision making.
• Follow up with project teams on programme quality improvement action plans. Ensure action points are followed up and relevant measures taken and incorporated into programming.
• Designing situation analysis, needs and baseline/end line assessments, external reviews, evaluations and documentation, and identifying resources, including technical resources, both within WVI and externally.
• Support the implementation of processes to review the quality of existing project data, information collection methods and the suitability of the existing data for the provision of sound baseline information.
• Always ensure to store collected data securely as per policies relating to data protection for the project
• Disseminate all project information related to M&E to staff and partners
• Ensure Project alignment to the donors and support office evaluation protocols and methodological tools
• Prepare and share high quality and timely routine project management reports (Monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and annually) as per donor requirements.
• Facilitate monthly Data Quality Assessments to ensure reliability of the data by verifying on source data documents and quality of the same.
• Manage beneficiary data base.

Learning, Documentation & Capacity Development
• Ensure continuous learning and documentation of lessons learnt and best practices for program design, monitoring and evaluation frameworks related to emergency response.
• Coordinate the sharing of learning related to MEAL practices across projects and provide support when internal/external reviews, evaluations, and lessons learned exercises should be employed.
• Support the development of project case studies, human interest stories, documentaries and other related materials
• Organize/ project reflection & learning events to document lessons learnt, good practices and areas of improvement.
• Ensure that lessons learnt and reports are documented (printed, visual) and published for sharing with the donor and other partners and proactively share information and learning with internal and external stakeholders
• Develop capacity building plans and support WV and partners in building their capacity in M&E and in the management of information systems, development of required formats, key indicators, needs assessments, frameworks for evaluation, qualitative documentation of outcomes and impact of projects.

Database Management
• Provide MIS content/requirements and feedback to project team and document progress on indicators/achievement of targets using Indicator Tracking Tables (ITT)
• Support the development of systems and processes for the implementation of M&E policy and procedure based on WV best practice, developing frameworks to integrate impact assessment and learning and knowledge management into the programme and project cycle;
• Plan tracking for Project indicators of strategic relevance from secondary and primary data, with partners and communities
• Maintain a tracking spreadsheet for M&E activities and events – baselines, assessments, reviews, evaluations – tracking trends and recommendations, progressing their implementation where appropriate.
• Compile, consolidate and analyze quantitative and qualitative project data and contribute into subsequent reporting through monthly MEAL reports, updates, successes and issues from the MEAL tracking tools.
• Take lead in the analysis of data collected under the monitoring framework for assessment of progress and areas for improvement.
• Support remote sensing and GIS Mapping of Program activities, Outputs and Beneficiaries in all the Counties
• Ensure the appropriate use of information management systems in compliance with WV Kenya, GoK, and in line with partnership and donor agreements.

Engagement, Networking and Partnerships
• Maintain links with relevant stakeholders for collaboration, networking, resource sharing, material development and learning activities.
• Ensure WVK visibility and participation in M&E Technical working groups in the County

Others: Perform any other duty assigned to you by the supervisor

Qualification & Skills
• Background of implementing effective M&E systems and/or accountability mechanisms
• Proven technical ability around M&E (i.e. experience in Data collection on the Open data kit plat form and other mobile based applications, ability to conduct data analysis and interpretation)
• Demonstrable track-record in data tracking and evaluation, with the ability to support staff and partners on M&E methodology and analyze and disseminate information to a range of stakeholder audiences internally and externally;
• Well-developed research, analytical (qualitative and quantitative), documentation, report-writing and strategic planning skills.
• Computer literacy, particularly in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
• Working knowledge of data/statistical programmes e.g. SPSS, Stata etc
• Must have a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Social sciences, Monitoring and Evaluation or Project management, Statistics or related discipline from a recognized University.
• Minimum three (3) years practical experience in M&E system coordination/ implementation in international non-governmental organization or other international relief/development body;
• Experience in working on donor funded programs is an added advantage.
• Excellent communication skills
• Networking and influencing skills
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrates personal integrity and trustworthiness
• Ability to conceptualize and put into practice well researched initiatives
• Demonstrated understanding of quality assurance systems, and continuous improvement, with particular emphasis on integration of accountability measures into all aspects of the project cycle;
• Empirical knowledge of humanitarian codes, principles and practice;
• Good team player, self-starter, has ability to work under minimum supervision and maintain good relationships;
• Commitment to WV Values, Mission and Vision
• Good analytical skills with appropriate attention to detail
• Facilitates appropriate information flow amongst staff
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills in English, with experience working in multicultural, multi-location, values-driven teams;
• Excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills.

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