Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Seefar

Selection criteria

This role requires someone who has the skills, knowledge and experience listed under the “Essential criteria” heading below. A strong candidate will also meet one or more of the “Desirable criteria”.

Essential criteria 

• At least 4 years of experience in M&E assignments and consultancies;
• Strong experience in supporting or undertaking Research and M&E tasks from design, development of research/evaluation questions, data collection, data quality assurance, data analysis and reporting;
• Advanced proficiency in creating and formatting spreadsheets, using functions and formulas, and working with large datasets;
• An excellent understanding of designing and testing theories of change and formulating evaluation questions according to the OECD DAC evaluation criteria;
• Experience in programmatic reporting and communication of robust and defensible data that meet internal and external requirements;
• Strong experience with qualitative data and quantitative data analysis and relevant data analysis tools (NVivo, R, Stata, SPSS); 
• Experience overseeing and managing fieldwork;
• Experience with data visualisation, ideally Data Studio, Tableau and/or Power BI;
• Experience developing and using remote or online data collection tools such as Google Forms, Kobo or AppSheet.
• Well-developed cross-cultural communication skills;
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English and French;
• Effective prioritisation and organisational skills with an ability to work under pressure;
• Access to a fast, stable internet connection;

Desirable criteria

• Preferably thematic expertise in migration, livelihoods and psychosocial counselling;
• Experience working remotely.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The following are the primary responsibilities of the role, with estimated allocations of time and attention.

Approximately 80% of your time and attention will be spent:

• Creating and reviewing project theories of change/logframes;
• Designing and implementing mixed methods research projects;
• Designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation frameworks and tools;
• Draft M&E baseline, mid-term and end-line assessment tools including data collection instruments to ensure quality and timely tracking of projects outputs and outcomes;
• Managing and training project and field teams in data collection;
• Develop data analysis plans;
• Analysing project M&E data (quantitative and qualitative);
• Attend relevant meetings to represent Seefar’s project activities;
• Working closely with the Project Manager and Director to ensure that all the Objectives and Immediate Results of Seefar’s projects are met;
• Ensure results and information are regularly shared across teams and feed meaningfully into program design and implementation plans;
• Writing monitoring and evaluation reports, preparing presentations and presenting findings to partners and other internal and external stakeholders;
• Coordinating the review and commentary on the reports, on the basis of which to make improvements;
• Developing and refining internal and project M&E systems;
• Conducting other M&E and administrative tasks as required.