The Center for Community Health and Development International is a non-discriminatory, non-governmental organization with a mandate to improve the health and quality of life of Nigeria's rural children and women. CHAD was established in 2002 by a group of women from different religious and ethnic background in Gombe state, North East Nigeria.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
Location: Borno State (MMC, Koduga, Jere, Magumeri)
Project Location: Shani/Hawul
Duration: 4 months with possible renewal
Details
- We seek competent persons to undertake parents, SBMCs, community members to mobilization and sensitizing them on COVID-19 pandemic. The project covers the period of 4 months with possible renewal.
Job Description
- CHAD is looking for a Monitoring & Evaluation Officer for our area office in Borno state, North-East Nigeria. The role of the M&E Officer is to establish and implement systems that promote evidence-based decision-making, program and project performance, and internal management.
- The M&E officer will contribute to quality programming through supporting access to and use of relevant and timely information on program scale, relevance, and effectiveness.
- Within this context, the M&E officer will provide technical support to the program staff pertaining to M&E and build capacity in the region by identifying and supporting the implementation of effective, cost-efficient and meaningful M&E systems. The officer is to reports to the Head of the Program.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Line management for project staff leads the process to establish country office and area office program-level M&E and accountability (Community Accountability Response Mechanism) systems.
- Lead the development of guidance and frameworks for the country and area office procedures, policies and processes that assist in institutionalizing and supporting M&E.
- Participate in program design and proposal discussions, including the theory of change development, log frame design, and budgeting for M&E.
- Participate in Country Office, and Area office strategy discussions to ensure M&E remains a high priority in the Programme.
- Provide leadership, support to technical advisors, project, and area managers in planning and standardizing M&E across projects.
- Support project managers and coordinators through the development of data collection methodology and tools, and systems for on-going data analysis.
- Develop a data management system for Programme and M&E data.
- Ensure that monitoring data are fed into management decisions and used in Programme management.
- Lead internal improvement processes (M&E matrixes, Macro Log Frames etc.) according to need.
- Encourage and support the absorption of lessons and recommendations at the office, and emerging from various AO (grant reviews, after-action reviews, grant closures) and CO events (evaluations, assessments, technical visits, learning reviews)
- Facilitate data analysis and improving program staff data literacy (and usage of the institutional platform geared toward this) that supports strategic decision making.
- Encourage community meetings/orientations at the project start-up.
- Supervise and support in executing M&E plans, and Accountability systems.
Qualifications
- Qualification: HND/ BA/BSc
- At least 2-3 years’ experience in creating and leading the implementation of M&E systems for an NGO
- At least 3 years’ experience working in an emergency or post-conflict setting
- Thorough experience with and knowledge of principles and current approaches to monitoring and evaluation in relief and development programs, using both quantitative and qualitative methods
- Understanding of data and information needs for program management and decision making
- Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring and other formal and non-formal methods
- High-level English language and local language proficiency (speaking, reading, writing)
- Analytic and computer skills, including MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,)
Personal Qualities:
- Handling insecure environments
- Managing resources to optimize results
- Empowering and building trust
- Planning and delivering results
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter in not more than 3 pages addressed to the "Human Resource Officer, Center for Community Health and Development (CHAD) International, Behind Bulunkutu Primary school Maiduguri, Borno State" The CV / Cover Letter is strictly to be submitted to: recruitment@chadintl.org Kindly indicates your name, position you applying for as the subject of your email.
