Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Job Vacancy at IFDC in Nairobi Kenya 2013
Vacancy Announcement: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) is a non-profit, Public International Organization (PIO) established in 1974, with its headquarters in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, United States of America.
IFDC strives to improve the livelihood of people in developing countries throughout the world by facilitating the sustainable improvement of agricultural productivity through the development and transfer of effective and environmentally sound plant nutrient technology and agricultural marketing.
We are presently implementing a Dutch-funded project entitled “Toward Sustainable Clusters in Agribusiness through Learning in Entrepreneurship” (2SCALE).
The 2SCALE Project aims at improving rural livelihoods and food security in Africa through the development of a portfolio of 500 agribusiness clusters in nine target countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Benin, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, South Sudan and Uganda).
These clusters are defined as a partnership among all actors needed to build profitable commodity-based value chains (producers and their organizations, input suppliers, finance suppliers, processors, warehouses managers, traders, business development services, etc.).
Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) under 2SCALE will aim to demonstrate the project’s contribution to cluster development, value chain development and links to consumer markets on one hand and its relation to changes in rural livelihoods and food security on the other hand.
M&E will be conducted in accordance with a Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP).
Position Summary
The M&E Officer for 2SCALEwill be responsible for leading the execution of the overall project PMP and coordinating related activities within the project and via partners in the East/Southern African 2SCALE target countries.
S/he will design and orchestrate efforts that monitor outcomes against targets; enable management, donors and partners to gain feedback and deduce lessons;
S/he will also be responsible for providing timely and relevant information to project managers, partners and donors.
The M&E Specialist will contribute to the development of institutional capacity and M&E initiatives of divisional and global scope.
Supervision
The M&E Officer will be supervised by and report directly to the Division Director, or his designee, with a dotted line to the 2SCALE Chief of Party based in Accra, Ghana.
Outside the East and Southern Africa project team, the M&E Specialist will collaborate closely with his/her counterpart in the North and West Africa and with Division-level M&E Specialists.
Duties
Core duties will include refreshing and executing the PMP, coordination and support for the project’s internal and external evaluations, reporting/communication and any other assignments that the supervisor deems necessary for the success of the project or contribution to the work of IFDC as a global institution.
Required qualification
- Masters Degree in Statistics, Agricultural Economics or other related fields
- Minimum three years experience with participatory monitoring and evaluation which may include designing and conducting survey exercises, data collection (key stakeholder interviews, focus groups, surveys, and secondary data analysis techniques) and data management
- Experience in private sector, economic and/or agricultural donor-funded projects
- Demonstrable experience in performing statistical analysis and interpreting results correctly
- Excellent command of computer and statistical software. Ability to manipulate large data sets.
- Ability to work independently and to take initiative
- Service-oriented attitude towards work– providing positive and timely feedback to colleagues and staff of partner institutions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, including the ability to present materials in meetings and at conferences and to write project documents (including evaluation design plans, results frameworks, data collection and data analysis plans, and progress reports)
- Proficiency in additional languages spoken in Eastern and Southern Africa is highly desirable
Place of Work
The M&E Officer will be based in Nairobi but should be available to travel within the country and in Africa when called upon.
Interested applicants should visit our web-site for details and apply on-line through our employments portal on www.ifdc.org
Screening will commence immediately and continue until the position is filled up.