Job Title: M & E Officer
Line Manager: Project Manager - BRACE II PROJECT
People Management: None
Duty Station: Aweil, NBEG State, South Sudan
Closing date: December 28th, 2017
Background
SAADO – Smile Again Africa Development Organization is a national non- profit humanitarian and
development organization dedicated to working with the youth and their communities to reach their full
potential. Founded in 2011,
SAADO works across all the states of South Sudan promoting social
cohesion and empowering communities to tackle the causes of poverty and
injustices. We provide humanitarian assistance to families affected by
disaster & conflict while partnering with communities for long –
term solutions to alleviate poverty. Motivated by the potential in the
youth, we optimize their role to foster peaceful co-existence and
economic empowerment in south Sudan.
Brace II Brief
BRACE
II is a two and half year program that aims to address immediate food
insecurity to avert hunger and leverage sustainable positive change in
community food security and livelihoods. BRACE II is supporting
interventions based on the approach known as ‘Food for Work/Assets’ or
‘Cash for Work/Assets’ in which vulnerable households receive cash or
food (the delivery choice is dependent on the status of local markets)
in return for work on livelihoods/productive assets that improves their
resilience against climate shocks and food insecurity.
BRACE II program is centered on four main objectives:
§ Address immediate hunger gaps (through conditional cash/food assistance)
§ Improve
longer-term food security (through addressing some of the underlying
causes of food insecurity and malnutrition by supporting the creation of
community assets and improving skills and knowledge)
§ Increase capacity to absorb, anticipate and adapt to climate variability and extremes
Improve community relationships
The Role
Reporting to the Project Manager (BRACE II), the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer will
support M&E strategies to enhance data collection, compliance, and
capacity building of staff in M&E, provide high quality monitoring
and learning frameworks, reporting, publication and documentation of
results.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
· Support
the preparation of annual reports, county program profiles, periodic
progress reports, donor progress reports, program statistics,
peer-reviewed publications, lessons learned, best practices and other
materials;
· Conduct regular field visits to program sites to strengthen M&E capacity.
· Orient and train staff in understanding and applying results based monitoring and evaluation policies, tools and methods.
· Provide
support on training in the development of M&E Plans, M&E tools,
contribute survey design, methodology, data analysis, and other
services.
· Provide Assistance to projects staff on data gathering, monitoring and analysis.
· Collate M& E data from the field for effective documentation, reporting and learning;
· Work
with program teams to develop and ensure databases of all projects are
kept up to date and are accessible for effective use of the information.
· Provide
support to donor reporting to ensure that reports cover outcome
indicators and strategic information on results and impact
interventions.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES
· At
least a Bachelors degree in Social Sciences, Demography, Development
Planning, and Statistics or a related technical field relations or
related field and 3 years work experience.
· Additional Professional training in M&E desirable.
· Knowledge
of statistical software (such as SPSS, STATA, and SAS). Advanced skills
with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access (or similar tools) is
strongly preferred
· Experience with DFID funded programs and reporting frameworks will be a distinct advantage.
· Willing to travel frequently to project sites/areas to work with multidisciplinary teams;
· Excellent written and spoken skills in English, Arabic and local South Sudan languages in the project target area.
· Excellent communication (written and oral) and coordination skills;
· Ability to work under pressure and prioritize assignments.
How to apply
If
you are passionate and interested send your CV and a cover letter to
SAADO HR Manager; quoting “M &E Officer Brace II” on this email
address: vacancy@saado.org or you can hand deliver your application to SAADO office: Munuki Block C, Off Gudele Road, Opposite Antipas Pharmacy in Juba by December 28th, 2017 Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
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