Job Vacancy at Craft HR – Monitoring and Evaluation Expert
Job Description
Overview
The Agriculture and Finance Consultancy (AFC) under the GIZ EPP IV project is seeking to engage the services of a local Monitoring and Evaluation (M & E) Expert, specialized in monitoring and evaluation with experience in agriculture, agribusiness agricultural school training, TEVET projects to serve on an evaluation team responsible for the design and implementation of an end-of-term performance evaluation of the GIZ EPP IV Agribusiness for Rural Development and Increasing Incomes.
The project is about developing training courses on agricultural value chain development and entrepreneurship for 4,000 farmers and on non-agricultural TVET courses (e.g. mechanics, welders, electricians, solar technicians, etc.) for 2,000 trainees. Many of the courses will be sub-contracted. The best 3.000 students will receive grants to start a business.
The project targets youth, especially poor youth in the rural eastern districts of Kailahun,
Kono, Falaba and Koinadugu.
The targeted group includes subsistence farmers, owners, managers and employees of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) including subsistence and small-scale producers in selected sectors or value chains and districts. The vast majority of beneficiaries are involved in agricultural value chains such as primary production or secondary processing of cocoa, coffee, rice, and vegetables
Program Goal:
Employment and income situation of young people in particular has improved.
Module Objective:
Youth employability is strengthened on both the supply and demand sides
Key Responsibilities:
Advise the Team Leader and the other Technical Advisors on all matters related to the M&E processes, providing support and guidance at all stages of the procurement cycle;
Develop – in close coordination with GIZ M&E staff, a M&E concept
Implement and supervise all M&E activities, assure performance quality;
Ensure compliance with GIZ’s M&E procedures during implementation of the assignment;
Guide and supervise district M&E staff
Tasks
Under guidance and supervision from the Team Leader / AFC HQ responsible for the M&E system and activities of the project:
Monitor the training of (project-wide) 2,000 youth in vocational skills. This includes:
monitor the enabling of local public authorities in cooperation with the finance and procurement staff, monitor 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:
monitor the implementation of IFT trainings for the beneficiaries in the districts
Monitor the capacity building of RES Ltd. in cooperation with the finance and procurement staff, monitor 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
Monitor 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
Study the project proposal and important project documents and support the development of a Monitoring Plan Including cluster planning and registration structures.
Support the development of the project operational plan.
Create 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.
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.
Follow-up and supervise monitoring plan and data collection, analyse data on regular base discuss analysed data results with concerned staff and provide feedback.
Provide Team leader with analysed data in a written report or raw data sets as requested.
Report 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)
Gather, sort, clean and process all field-collected data and feed it in the right analysing tools to ensure a valid backing of project result reporting.
Networking and cooperation 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.
Performs other duties and tasks at the request of Team Leader / AFC HQ resulting from project implementation, as they come up.
Person Specification and Qualification:
Master’s degree in agricultural economics, agronomy, sociology, agricultural science or related field is desirable
Seven (7) years demonstrable experience designing and implementing evaluations in agriculture, agribusiness, agricultural value-chains, horticultural export promotion, agricultural extension, controlling or statistics or related field.
Demonstrable experience developing structured key informant interview protocols, group discussion protocols and paper and pencil/on-line survey instruments.
Demonstrable experience writing technical reports and producing PowerPoint presentations.
Excellent communication skills
Ability to communicate effectively in different local languages will be an added advantage e.g. communicating to government, agricultural suppliers, agribusiness/export firms, students attending agricultural schools and smallholder farmers.
Demonstrable experience evaluating agribusiness development or other value chain development projects.
High proficiency in reading and speaking in English is required; fluency preferred.
Demonstrable experience in technical writing of evaluation reports in English is highly desired.
Ability to be flexible and work well under pressure and to effectively manage competing priorities in a fast-paced team environment.
Expert required to travel in project locations in the country and related districts.
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:
Only candidates who have been short listed will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
Working Hours:
Monday to Friday – 8.00am – 5.00pm
Saturday and Sunday are non-Working Days
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