DUTY STATION: Koinadugu

Reporting to: Senior M&E Expert, Team Leader

Objective: Plan and ensure project M&E observing AFC/GIZ guidelines, rules and procedures

Responsibilities:

• Support Senior M&E Expert and the Team Leader on all matters related to the M&E processes, providing support and guidance at all stages of the procurement cycle;

• Support the development of an M&E concept for the project;

• Implement and monitor M&E activities in the district, assure performance quality;

• Ensure compliance with GIZ’s M&E procedures during implementation of the assignment;

• Guide/support technical experts on M&E issues

Tasks

Under guidance and supervision from the Senior M&E Expert, the Team Leader and the District Coordinators, responsible for the M&E system and activities of the project in the district the M&E Officer will:

• Monitor the training of (project-wide) 2,000 youth in vocational skills. This includes:

  • Monitoring the enabling of local public authorities in cooperation with the finance and procurement staff.

  • Monitoring the disbursement and use of local grants to support outstanding training graduates.

• Monitor the further development and application of the Integrated Farmer Training (IFT) for (project-wide) 4,000 advanced female and male farmers. This includes:

  • Monitoring the implementation of IFT trainings for the beneficiaries in the districts

  • Monitoring the capacity building of RES Ltd. in cooperation with the finance and procurement staff

  • Monitoring the disbursement of funds for the (project-wide) 1,500 best beneficiaries and the further support provided by technical staff, including training and coaching activities, and in-kind goods in cooperation with the finance and procurement staff

  • Monitoring the disbursement and financial implementation of development grants through local authorities to 290 MSME beneficiaries through local subsidies and other project funds

Further detailed Tasks

Under the guidance/supervision of the Senior M&E Expert:

• Study the project proposal and important project documents and support the development of a Monitoring Plan.

• Support the development of the project operational plan and subsequent assessments.

• Support the Senior M&E Expert in the creation of data collection formats and questionnaires for field and training session monitoring.

• Support the creation of the beneficiary database that can be linked with other project actor databases and ensure a unique identifier for each beneficiary, which is valid within the overall EPPIV program.

• Support the selection and screening of Beneficiaries, Service Providers and other implementing partners/groups

• Inform concerned staff about the monitoring activities and support logistical work plans for field staff data collection and activity screening and facilitate strategies to increase the monitoring efficiency.

• Responsible for the implementation of the monitoring plan and data collection for project M&E activities at district level.

• Analyze data on regular base, discuss analyzed data results with concerned staff and provide feedback.

• Provide analyzed data in a written report or raw data sets as requested.

• Report regularly on data analysis results and consecutive findings and recommendations as produced.

• Provide short training courses for field staff on data collection tools and relevant software, as necessary.

• Ensure the proper documentation and formatting of all collected data.

• Support trainings on M&E activities for Service Providers and other project Partners (local authorities)

• Monitor and confirm Service Providers reporting for project progress monitoring and payment of instalments.

• Follow-up provision of inputs, ensure field hand-over documents are in order and reach district offices timely. Beneficiary identification is guaranteed.

• Gather, sort, clean and process all field-collected data and feed it in the right analyzing tools to ensure a valid backing of project result reporting.

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  Network and cooperate with Service Providers, and district stakeholders.

• Support training and supervision to enumerators or field staff as needed.

• Data collection for project M&E activities from non-project data sources to be used in combination with project data for comprehensive analyses of project results.

• Supervise Service Providers reporting for project progress monitoring and payment of instalments.

• Support the development of training session monitoring sheets and the processing of results.

• Support the development of training evaluation sheets and the processing of results.

• Monitor trainings and rank trainer quality and beneficiary participation.

• Monitor if techniques learned are applied and evaluate different techniques for quality and potential improvement. Focus on the technique and the training methodology and comment on improvements if perceived.

• Perform other duties and tasks at the request of the Team Leader, Senior M&E Expert and District Coordinator resulting from project implementation, as they come up.

Working Hours:

Monday to Friday – 8.00am – 5.00pm

Saturday and Sunday are non-Working Days

How to Apply

To apply for this post, kindly submit a hard copy of your Cover letter and CV at our office:

Craft HR

60 Upper Wellington Street

Freetown

Or

Send electronically to:

info@craft-hr.com

Crafthr60@gmail.com

Only candidates who have been short listed will be contacted. No phone calls, please.