About Evidence Action: Evidence Action is a new organization working in partnership with IPA to scale proven interventions. IPA has played in important role incubating technical assistance and service delivery programs, such as the Dispensers for Safe Water program and the Deworm the World Initiative. 

• All ongoing program monitoring needs met (including M&E design and quality data collection)
• Programs delivered with access to timely and useful data for day-to-day programmatic planning and decision making
• Analysis and research conducted to support program improvements (including operation research, market research and cost-efficiency analysis)
• Support with timely, useful and clear information for evidence-based decision making (including provide support to connect the dots)
• Support provided to regional leadership for new programs and partnerships for exploration and evaluation
• Standards, systems and processes setup for delivery of all functions (monitoring, analysis, research, information systems and quality data)

• Learning and Communication (L&C): This team is responsible for supporting the program teams with timely information in innovative, useful and clear ways to translate analysis and research to evidence-based decision making and action.
• Monitoring, Analysis and Research (MAR): This team is responsible for ensuring that all ongoing program monitoring needs are met and analysis and research is conducted to support program improvements.
• Management Information Systems (MIS): This team is be responsible for ensuring that the all programs have access to timely and useful data for day-to-day programmatic planning and decision making through a cloud-based multi-user system.
• Data Quality and Management (DQM): This team is responsible for ensuring access to quality and timely data to meet all ongoing program needs; including monitoring, information systems and analysis and research.

• Manage DSW program data collection activities as maybe assigned, including, paper-based data collection and phone-based data collection for both quantitative and qualitative research.
• Work with DSW program teams to train and manage all staff collecting data to ensure quality data collection; including tracking all data collection activities and conducting back-checks/spot-checks
• Based on the sampling guidelines, support regular sampling of field activities for deployment and develop and manage an efficient field schedule for all project field operations
• Maintain an efficient system for tracking data collection activities, and support data tracking systems developed by the MIS team to make sure that no data collected from the field is lost in the process of data flow.
• Manage deployment of M&E staff to other offices to support expansion monitoring activities or any other data collection activities at the away office as needed.
• Update MLIS and program leadership on the data collection progress across all DSW field offices as needed.
• Serve as the primary person of contact between DSW field offices on matters data collection and monitoring and the MLIS team, and actively maintain a robust and dynamic feedback system between DSW field offices and MLIS, including feedback on data collection instruments and any other unexpected happenings from the field.
• Manage standards and best-practices for collecting; including conducting back-checks/spot-checks and documentation of field activities.
• Manage and contribute to innovative systems and tools to train staff and plan activities

• Support the development of program budget and management of data collection finances, including identifying and making timely financial request and returns as well as tracking data collection expenses
• Support Area Coordinators (administrative supervisors) in maintaining records of attendance, staff leave, extra days worked and related HR documents for timely submissions to the HR as required.
• Supporting procurement of goods, including sourcing for quotations, purchasing of office supplies and verifying the delivery of goods as necessary
• Ensure proper management and storage of data collected, and documents and equipment that belong to the MLIS team.
• Ensure administrative and field operation related documents, activities and protocols are well documented.

• Work closely with Area Coordinators in the daily management of field staff in line with the division of responsibilities under the matrix system, and contribute to the field staff occasional evaluation of performance.
• Through Manager – DQM, forward any feedback concerning programming of electronic data collection instruments to Senior/Associate – Programming.
• Through Senior Associate – Data Collection, work with the IT team on establishing the right hardware and software requirements to collect timely and quality data.
• With support of Senior Associate – Data collection, work closely with the procurement team to procure necessary material for data collection as per the procurement policy
• With guidance from Senior Associate Data Collection and Quality, support in other MLIS data collection and monitoring activities as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree (preferred) in Management, community work, project management or other social sciences, or a Diploma in a related field but with a significant number of years of relevant experience
• Good language skills in English and Kiswahili both spoken and written
• 1-2 year experience in management and or doing monitoring and evaluation work
• Strong familiarity with Excel and other Microsoft office packages
• Experience with mobile phone survey administration using Open Data Kit or other mobile phone platform
• Good People Management & leadership skills.
• Willingness to travel to the field for visits and supervision
• Good conceptual skills with an analytical mind and problem solving skills
• Embraces team work and aspires and supports the ideals of working in a team work environment as a team champion
• Passion to work in a rural community setting
• Flexible mind set and willingness to take challenging assignments not within the scope of this position
• Self-driven and highly motivated to deliver results within tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills. Ability to communicate well within the organization and with the rural communities and local leaders
• Proactive and ambitious to support innovation and change in a dynamic working environment