Population Health and Environment Ethiopia Consortium (PHE-EC) is a non- governmental non-for-profit organization established in 2008. The consortium was established with a vision “to see Ethiopia with a sustainable use of resources, resilient ecosystems, sustainable livelihoods, and a healthy population”. The organization has also a mission “to contribute to sustainable development in Ethiopia by promoting and enhancing the integration of population, health and environment through multi-sectorial approaches.”
PHE Ethiopia consortium is currently looking for the competent professional staffs to employ for the position of MaYEA Planning, Motoring, Evaluation and Reporting (PMEL) Officer for Debre Berhan Cluster that covers North Shoa, South Wollo, Oromia Special Zones and Afar Program Woredas. :
JOB Description
Job title: MaYEA Program PMEL Officer
Duty Station: Debre Brihan with frequent travel to program Woredas
Reports to: Cluster Coordinator
Job Purpose / Summary
The PMEL Officer will lead the design, implementation and operation of PMEL system from program initiation to close out. Supervise and manage the program’s PMEL team and oversee the collection, management, analysis, and use of program data, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into program implementations to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes. Responsible for documenting and disseminating program successes, challenges and lessons learned. Responsible for designing and conducting assessments and evaluations to address program needs. Provide technical leadership and supervise staff, and oversee data management on gender-related analysis, and on-going training to program clusters officers. Strengthen and direct MAYEA Debre Birhan cluster planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning activities to ensure robust reporting, accountability to the program stakeholders, and application and sharing of learning to improve program performance.
Duties and Responsibilities
Programming, Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and reporting
Together with the cluster level officers, support and follow up the Woreda program officers as well as other stakeholders in their effort to properly implement the MaYEA program with the required quality and magnitude in their jurisdiction.
Assist the Cluster Coordinator with development of the PMEL Plan for the program, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing PMEL and/ performance monitoring plans.
Monitor and evaluate quality of program delivery and efficacy of the program resources and establishes and maintains closer working relationships with relevant program stakeholders at the regional, zonal, cluster and woreda level with regard to the monitoring and evaluation component.
Monitor all program resources (human, financial, material, time, and other resources) are effectively and properly utilized for better impact and fulfillment of the program objectives.
With the support of the cluster coordinator, coordinate with the cluster officers and prepare detailed annual implementation plans of the of the cluster for every fiscal year specified on the contract agreement between ORDA Ethiopia and the funder and get the plan approved by the concerned.
Prepare annual plans of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning activities within the cluster; implement and follow-up the implementation by others; keep proper records and documentations of activities, outputs and outcomes of the activities; and report the same to all concerned.
Ensure records of the project implementation are well kept, consolidated cluster-level ad-hoc, quarterly, and annual reports are timely produced and communicated to all concerned.
Technically handle and coordinate the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning interventions of the program within the cluster and support cluster technical officers, and Woreda officers.
Implement the program MEL Plan, including annual work plan preparations, use of MEL tools, platforms and methods, indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, that are appropriate to the scope, context, and technical requirements of MaYEA.
Do the collection, management, and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, ensuring disaggregated data and the use of age, gender and other inclusion-related indicators to assess how the project is impacting the different target groups
Work with other technical officers to avail high-quality data, analyze and interpret it and make sure it is utilized for decision-making at all levels of the project.
Handle data quality assessments of the cluster, strengthen data management and quality improvement systems, ensuring that performance data is accurate, sufficient and timely available,
Guide and support Woreda program officers with participants registration on kobo toolbox and manage the data
Design strong stakeholder, partners, and beneficiary reflection mechanisms to ensure that program interventions within the cluster are effective and ensure down ward, horizontal and upward accountability, interactive learning and knowledge management system across all project components and partners.
Make sure all programmatic learning within the cluster and results are fully documented, shared, and used to facilitate informed and adaptive management and develop success stories that highlight the cluster’s interventions impact.
Make sure all the required information is researched, compiled, and submitted, including results and their analysis, for project reports, including the quarterly and annual reports, and respond to requests for data from the Sub-national hub and other stakeholders
Youth Engagement, Gender Equity, and Inclusiveness
Monitor that an enabling environment is created and mechanisms are in place in the cluster for real and effective engagement of young people in the apiculture and allied value chains, especially those of young women and other vulnerable groups.
Coordinate with the other officers of the cluster to plan, implement and continually monitor a youth focused targeting strategy that prioritize young women (at least 80%) and other vulnerable groups (at least 10%) is followed in the implementation of MaYEA in the cluster.
Networking and Communication
Monitor and evaluate that the program is well networked with all critical actors in apiculture and allied value chains and benefits from networking.
Monitor and evaluate that the program’s objectives & approaches and standards are well communicated to all stakeholders and program participants.
Ensure that all periodical and ad hock communications of the cluster are accurate and timely.
Together with other cluster officers, monitor that feedback about the MaYEA interventions is collected; project gains and progresses are documented and publicized to concerned stakeholders and the wider audience.
Safeguarding
Integrate safeguarding in the monitoring and evaluation tools and track safeguarding indicators relevant to the project.
Prepare reports with safeguarding as a key section on the reporting template.
Ensure the implementation of safe program by being alert and responsive to safeguarding risks in project communities.
Monitor and evaluate that every activities of the program within the cluster are in line with universally accepted safeguarding principles and PHE-EC and MasterCard Foundation’s safeguarding policies and procedures.
Make sure every apiculture and side business activities of the program in the cluster are in line with universally accepted safeguarding principles and PHE-EC, ORDA Ethiopia and MasterCard Foundation’s Safeguarding policies and procedures.
Ensure appropriate reflection mechanisms are in place for stakeholder, partners, and program participant of the apicultural development program to ensure that program interventions in the cluster are effective and downward, horizontal, and upward accountability among the program stakeholders is materialized.
DOCUMENTATION AND DISSEMINATION OF LESSONS
Improve quality of data through data verification procedures, including routine data quality audit.
Support the documentation and dissemination of lessons and good practices and facilitate the use of such data for program improvement.
Preference will be given to the following: Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
About You
Minimum qualifications and requirements
MSc/MA in Monitoring and Evaluation, Economics, International development, project Management, statistics.
Work Experience
At least 5 years of experience in monitoring and results reporting for development sector, with a thorough understanding of international best practices in a wide range of quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods and data analysis.
Proven record in the design of effective monitoring systems, data collection tools, building staff capacity in monitoring, reporting and consolidating data from multiple locations, organizations for results reporting at hub level.
Experience in project management; need assessment, planning, monitoring, evaluation and Accountability is required.
Work experience in international NGO
Two years of experience in managerial position.
Skills/Knowledge and competencies
Skilled in the development and use of data bases and systems of visualizing, entering, processing/cleaning and extracting data, including experience in web based monitoring and reporting systems-
Advanced computer and data analysis skills (SPSS, spread sheet and other applications)
Strategic thinker, with well-developed analytical skills and meticulous attention for details.
Ability to train and motivate program and sub grantee staff on PMEL system monitoring and result reporting and using of online reporting tools.
Excellent communication, facilitation and report writing skills in English.
Strong people skills (influencing and relationship building) ability to work in inclusive and gender sensitive environment.
Ability to frequently travel to the operational areas
Ability to work effectively in complex environment, building successful work relationships across IPs and persuading skill with diplomacy.
Other duties as assigned.
PERSONAL VALUES
Integrity and honesty
Hard working
Firm belief in gender equality, team work, transparent and participatory management.