International Alert,Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Jobs in Rwanda

Job
Description

Job Title	Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Reports to	Country Coordinator Rwanda and Burundi
Management Responsibility	Consultants
Job location	Kigali, with extensive travel within Rwanda
Contract Duration	1 Year contract, renewable
Grade	Grade3-2

International
Alert

International
Alert is a 30-year old independent peacebuilding organisation. We work with
people who are directly affected by violent conflict to improve their
prospects of peace, and we seek to influence the policies and ways of working
of governments, international organisations like the UN and multinational
companies, to reduce conflict risk and increase the prospects of peace.

We
work in Africa, several parts of Asia, the South Caucasus, the Middle East
and Latin America and have recently started work in the UK, Somalia and
Kenya. Our policy work focuses on several key themes that influence prospects
for peace – the economy, climate change, gender, the role
of international institutions, the impact of development aid, and the
effect of good and bad governance.

We
are one of the world’s leading peacebuilding NGOs with more than 200 staff
based in London and 15 field offices. To learn more about how and where
we work, visit www.international-alert.org.

Alert’s
Great Lakes programme (GLP) works in Burundi, the DRC, Rwanda, Kenya and
Uganda. The GLP works on a range of peacebuilding issues, including women in
peacebuilding, reconciliation, natural resources management, and the economy.
It supports and collaborates with local initiatives, and advocates for policy
change. The programme is managed from London, and implemented by staff based
in London and the region, in close collaboration with local organisations.

The
Rwanda/Burundi programme has been running since 1995 with the aim of contributing
to peace and equitable development.

Job
Purpose

The
purpose of this position is to support the continued growth and consolidation
of the Rwanda Programme. This is a local position, the holder will work
across programme projects to provide technical support programme staff and
partners implementing in monitoring, evaluating and learning from programme
implementation. They will establish a clear and reliable result based
monitoring, evaluation and learning system for Alert’s projects in Rwanda.
This will involve working closely with the Alert team in Rwanda and local
partners in ensuring data quality and supporting project teams to examine
projects outcomes and impact using participatory approaches. The successful
candidate will have knowledge and experience of programme or project design
and implementation, including monitoring and evaluation processes. The Senior
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will also input into Africa Programme wide
initiatives such as supporting the implementing of the organisational impact
plan and sharing lessons, tools and approaches with other country teams
across the organisation. The post holder will be supported remotely by the
Senior Programme Design and Assessment Officer, based in London, and will be
line managed by Alert’s Country Manager for Rwanda and Burundi.

Duties
and Responsibilities

1.
Support the Rwanda project teams in strengthening their Monitoring
& Evaluation and Learning (MEL) systems and to demonstrate impact
achieved

Build
knowledge and skills on MEL within the Rwanda project teams by providing
regular trainings to country teams on MEL;
Monitor
the quality and progress of projects implementation;
Manage,
coordinate and participate in the implementation of baseline studies,
monitoring missions, and evaluations (including developing terms of
reference for external evaluators and contributing to recruitment
processes of these consultants, organising field visits for evaluators,
organise internal evaluation workshops; supporting the process of
responding to evaluations by taking part in compiling management
responses to evaluations, ensuring that evaluation reports (internal and
external) are shared and disseminated widely both with relevant
stakeholders in Rwanda and throughout Alert), ensuring quality
methodology and analysis as well as timely delivery.
Provide
leadership in developing monitoring systems (e.g. good quality
indicators, M&E plans, data collection tools, evidence-based
processes, and knowledge management plans);
Monitor
the quality and progress of projects implementation;
Analyse
data collected and share findings with key internal and external
stakeholders;
Oversee
internal communication on M&E progress and results – promote
effective communication between M&E team, project staff, partner
teams, and Head quarter M&E team;
Contribute
to project and program planning and review meetings, including preparing
and sharing monitoring data on progress and challenges;
Contribute
to reporting procedures in compliance with donor procedures and
agreements in the award (including USAID and EU amongst others);
Contribute
to the promotion of collaborative cross-organisational relationships,
e.g. by bringing colleagues from different projects together on project
design and evaluation processes;
Support
project teams on all M&E activities noted in the points above for
both national projects and Great Lakes regional level projects.

2.
Contribute to Rwanda team in submitting new project proposals

Together
with the Senior Programme Design and Assessment Officer, provide
substantive inputs to M&E related sections of project proposals
(logframe, risk and hypothesis matrix, workplan, monitoring and learning
strategy, best practices and lessons learned from previous
project/initiatives etc.);
Contribute
ideas, text, and verify that budget for MEL activities is adequate;
Support
teams in timely compliance with contractual agreements specifically in
relation to baseline and evaluations;

3.
As a member of Alert, contribute to Alert’s systems, best practice and
learning in programme development and impact assessment

Share
best practices in MEL with the wider Rwanda team and the Great Lakes;
Support
project managers in ensuring that data from proposals and projects are
regularly and properly updated on PROMPT, for the purposes of
maintaining the Rwanda online database updated and sharing within the
wider organisation;
Contribute
to team-wide communications and knowledge management, and participate in
organisation-wide events and discussions on related topics/projects
Contribute
to monthly situational reports
Undertake
other tasks reasonably expected of her/him.

Travel
requirements

The
job is based in Kigali with extensive travel to districts outside of Kigali
and other destinations as required.

PERSON
SPECIFICATION

ESSENTIAL
REQUIREMENTS

Talents

At
Alert, we have introduced Talent Management to our business model as we
believe talented people are crucial to the success of our work. We
believe all individuals are talented and that success comes in matching the
right talents to the right roles.

For
this role, the skills, qualifications and experience listed below are
important, but we believe that to be great in this job you are likely, first
and foremost, to have a talent for analytical thinking and persuasive
communication, balanced with a constructive and collegial personal working
style that can advance Alert’s goals of coalition-building and promoting
peaceful outcomes in Rwanda. This is what we will be looking for above all
else.

At
least Bachelor’s degree level in a relevant field

5-
years’ experience of project monitoring and evaluation at an NGO

Specific
experience of field-based data collection and analysis experience using both
quantitative and qualitative data, and primary and secondary data sources

Collaborative
working style that enables coaching and training in M&E principles and
best-practices

Experience
conducting participatory research or participatory M and E, including using
tools such as focus group discussions, case study interviews.

Demonstrated
capacity to coordinate evaluations, including experience developing
evaluation terms of reference and recruiting and managing consultants

An
eye for detail and accuracy and an ability to balance competing demands

Proficient
in use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, Pivot Tables, Access, KOBO,
as well as web browsers

Knowledge
or demonstrable interest in peacebuilding

Ability
to be creative and innovative in generating new ideas and undertaking
research

Committed
to International Alert organisational values and goals.

Excellent
written and spoken English, French and Kinyarwanda – demonstrable ability to
analyse and present a cogent argument both in writing and orally

Excellent
communication skills

A
collaborative team player, willing to lend a hand and go the extra mile

A
self-starter with initiative and the ability to work with minimal supervision

How
to Apply

To
apply, please send a completed application form and equal opportunities form
at Rwanda@international-alert.org ; both of which
can be found under ‘How to Apply’ which is part of the Jobs section of Alert’s
website (http://www.international-alert.org/jobs ).

Closing
date: 30th June 2017,

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