M&E Specialist | Bahirdar

Location: Bahirdar, Ethiopia

Organization: MSD

Deadline: 17 November 2026

Job Description

MSD is an indigenous, non-profit civil society organization established in 1999 with a mission to improve the health, well-being, and socio-economic conditions of communities across Ethiopia. Over the past decades, MSD has evolved into a well-established development and humanitarian organization, delivering evidence-based, community-centered programs that respond to the evolving needs of vulnerable and underserved populations.

MSD implements integrated programs across a broad range of thematic areas, including: Health and Nutrition: TB, HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health (SRH), maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH), and nutrition. Education and Skills Development: Access to quality education, technical and vocational education and training (TVET), and skills development.

Social Mobilization and Livelihoods: Economic strengthening, community mobilization, and prevention of harmful traditional practices (HTPs), gender-based violence (GBV), and female genital mutilation (FGM), Migration and Trafficking: Safe migration, protection, rehabilitation, and reintegration support for migrants, returnees, and victims of trafficking; Child Care and Development: Child protection, early childhood care and development, and infant and young child feeding. ,

Human Rights and Good Governance: Democratization, peace building, social accountability, civic engagement, and dialogue; Humanitarian and Emergency Response: Integrated assistance and protection services for communities affected by conflict, displacement, disasters, and other emergencies; and Environment and Climate Change: Environmental sustainability, climate resilience, and biodiversity conservation.

Through these integrated programs, MSD works in close collaboration with federal and regional government institutions, communities, civil society organizations, development and humanitarian partners, and other stakeholders to strengthen local systems, expand access to essential services, promote inclusion and equity, and build resilient communities across Ethiopia.

MSD is looking for qualified and competent applicants for the following position:

Position: M&E Specialist

Location: Bahirdar

Salary: Negotiable subject to organizational salary scale and project budget

No. Required: 1

Gender: Both male and female are invited, and women are highly encouraged to apply.

Term of Employment: Contract

JOB SUMMARY

Monitoring and Evaluation officer is a position in the organization with the overall responsibility of developing monitoring plan, consolidating, document, track and update M&E data as well as ensuring the data is of the best quality possible. She/he will continuously engage in supervising performance of the project against the plan, providing technical assistance to project staffs, and coordinate periodic performance review, site level JISS with the relevant stakeholders.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monitoring project activities, outputs and progress towards anticipated results and working with data platforms, databases and select technologies to capture and organize data
• Facilitating the input of project staff, partners and other stakeholders in project design and measurement activities.
• Participating in and providing support to project design activities including development of project theories of change and strategic frameworks (Results Frameworks, Log Frames and result chain)
• Develop and implement monitoring and evaluation frameworks/plans to assess; and track project progress, outcomes and effectiveness against the intended goal and objectives ;
• Undertake continuous data management (data cleaning, sorting, categorizing and organizing data quality assessments, Analysis and Reporting) and quality assurance per donor requirement and organization standard and guideline;
• Determining data analysis procedures and use of quantitative or qualitative analysis tools
• Prepares monthly, quarterly, biannual and annual financial and project performance reports of the project and submit to organization and donor per the designated timeline.
• Put in place a monitoring system to collect baseline and periodic data for tracking project performance and decision making;
• Periodically conduct monitoring, JISS, review meeting with staffs, regional and sub-regional stakeholders.
• Maintain project documents, lessons and innovations as part of knowledge management.
• Provide support to knowledge management processes within the organizations and Contributing to institutional learning processes

REQUIRED QUALIFICATION

• Master’s degree/Bachelor degree in social science, statics , economics, or relevant fields;

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• 2 /4 years of monitoring and evaluation experience in both development and humanitarian contexts with NGOs.
• Experience with research methods and data management and analysis in both development and humanitarian programming
• Experience in evaluation design and management response projects
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, including excellent internal consultation and liaison skills; facilitation and coaching skills
• Excellent analytical and creative abilities with strong results orientation
• Fluency in English and local language

A person who has no history of sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment (SEAH) can provide evidence from his/her previous employment.