Monitoring and Evaluation Officer -Mettu field office

JOB TITLE: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

REPORTS TO: Team leader

REPORTING TO POSTHOLDER: None

LOCATION:   Mettu field office with frequent travel to project Intervention Woredas in Ilu Aba Bor zone

DURATION & HOURS: One year with a possibility of extension and with a probationary period of 60 working days

MONTHLY BASE SALARY: GBP 566 (Five Hundred Sixty-Six Pound Sterling)

The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will contribute to the development of an effective results-based M&E system, ensuring that knowledge generation, management, and use for effectively built into the whole project cycle. The position holder will play a major role in project monitoring, periodic data collection and analysis, devise mechanisms, and lead the process for effective dissemination, utilization, and documentation of learning. S/he actively takes part in the design as well as the execution of baseline, midterm evaluation, and final evaluation of the project. In addition, s/he works very closely with the team leader, project coordinator, Core Team, Farm Africa’s Programme quality team, and partners to support the monitoring and evaluation of the project.

• Establish a robust M&E system for data collection, analysis, feedback, and reporting by working closely with Farm Africa’s Programme Team. Report after analysis can include OCAT results, cost-benefit analysis on NTFP including coffee business, PFM business plan development, etc
• Develop strategies for long-term, sustainable systems to support data production, storage, analysis, documentation, dissemination, and use
• Work in consultation and partnership with the project team leader, partner, and staff to ensure consistency across the M&E system
• Represent the organization in discussions and events relating to cross learning
• Design tools and oversee implementation of Community/Beneficiary feedback
• Support the program team in preparation for the annual work plan. Also, document & follow up on the implementation plan of action (where necessary) to strengthen the positive impacts on the lives of target communities/households
•  Actively engage in the design and execution of baseline, midterm, and final evaluation surveys and documentation and dissemination of findings
• Update records regularly and facilitate monthly project progress review sessions at the field sub-office level
•  Review and ensure the quality of baseline, logical frame indicators, reporting formats and contents, and other relevant management tools from the perspective of knowledge management and learning
•  Support the establishment of and work closely with an M&E task force that will meet periodically
• Assist in the preparation of weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports that will be used internally, and for the government as well as for donor reporting.
•  Make sure the report answers the 5Ws, rich in gender and other segregated data, that includes challenges during implementations and justifications for over/under achievements.
•  Follow up all training activities of the project are ended with a joint plan of action with the view to help cascading and wider dissemination of the training given. Also, follow up and collect data for its implementation after planning.
•  Facilitate biannual and annual review meetings to help share progress and outcome level changes and seek solutions for problems of the project. Assist in organizing and leading knowledge and learning events/workshops
• Compile lessons learned & best practices of the project. Also, prepare case studies/stories and regular reports and submit them to the supervisors timely
• Capacitate the project team in the area of monitoring and evaluation. Train, advice, and coach project staff members and partners in proper planning, monitoring, data collection, and reporting.
• Support the Project Team Leader in the market and related project activities

These essential functions are not to be interpreted as a complete statement of all duties performed. Employees will be required to perform other job-related duties as required. All work responsibilities are subject to having performance goals and/or targets established.

Our Values

Investing in smallholder farming is the number one way to combat poverty in rural Africa. Farm Africa is a leading NGO specialising in growing agriculture, protecting the environment, and developing businesses in rural Africa.

EXPERT: Expertise and insightful evidence-based solutions are at the heart of everything Farm Africa does.

GROUNDED: Our teams and partners work closely with local communities, engaging them in every level of decision-making.

IMPACTFUL: We deliver long lasting change for farmers, their families, and the environments they live in.

BOLD: We model innovative approaches and are not afraid to challenge strategies that are failing.