Monitoring and Evaluation Lead Full Time

Responsible to provide expertise and leadership to generate and analyze quality evidence and data through monitoring, assessments, and evaluations. Must demonstrate experience building or strengthening monitoring systems, conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis, designing survey methodology, and promoting evidence-based program management. Additional required qualifications include demonstrated experience in leading the M&E of a large, multi-year development or resilience award; knowledge about TOCs, logic models, food and nutrition security indicators, M&E plans, data quality assurance, data utilization, and gender and youth integration into M&E; and experience developing and operationalizing a comprehensive M&E plan. The M&E Lead should demonstrate the ability to network and engage with necessary stakeholders. Fluency in French is required, and professional proficiency in English and in the Congolese national language specific to the region is preferred. Experience with USAID and U.S. Government regulations and reporting procedures and systems is preferred.

Location: Bukavu, DRC

Note: This position is contingent upon the approval of the proposal from USAID for the Resilience Food Security Activity grant and funding.

Proposal Summary
Food for the Hungry (FH) is searching for an experienced M&E Lead for the anticipated BHA/DRC Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) with an anticipated budget of $100m-299,99 million over 5 years. The program will seek to improve and sustain the food and nutrition security of vulnerable populations through multi-year resilience food security activities. These activities work at the individual household, community, and institutional level to address the underlying causes of food insecurity and malnutrition and strengthen transformative opportunities. RFSAs are intended to strengthen resilience in populations vulnerable to acute, chronic hunger, and malnutrition; recurrent shocks, stresses, and crises; and to reduce the need for ongoing or future emergency food assistance.

FH Culture
All we do, and how we do it, seeks to promote God’s beauty, goodness, and truth in a broken world. As such, we are defined by our ability to make people’s lives measurably better; our ability to deliver impact is the measure of our collective success. For we know that we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God has already prepared in advance for us to do. At Food for the Hungry, we operate under a set of values called Heartbeat Values.

Principal Responsibilities
Ensure effective management of monitoring and evaluation systems
•    Manage and oversee the collection and organizing of information in accordance with FH DRC’s M&E Systems and M&E Framework.
•    Track performance on established input, activity, output, effect, and impact indicators to measure achievement and track progress towards intermediate results and overall program strategic objectives.
•    Work closely with program managers and technical coordinators to process, analyze and use this information to improve management, make necessary adjustments, and assess certain trends.
•    Manage the correct and effective use of routine monitoring tools including Mini KPCs using LQAS to regularly assess changes in adoption of improved practices, pre/posttests, Quality Improvement and Verification Checklists, and Barrier Analysis to identify determinants of behaviors so that more effective behavior change can be encouraged.
•    Design, plan, coordinate, and report on the major periodic events associated with individual programs, namely: baseline survey, mid-term evaluation and final evaluation.
•    Conduct spot checks at the individual site and community level to evaluate adherence to programming standards and visually verify information reported through the normal reporting systems.
•    Compile and present program information for internal monthly, quarterly, and annual reports as well as donor required annual reports such as BHA’s Standardized Indicators Performance Tracking Table for the USAID/BHA funded RFSA.
•    Through aggregation of information and analysis at a national level, provide annual progress reports on national level strategic objectives.
•    Consult management on findings of project performances.
•    Ensure that monitoring, data collection and reporting take root in the process of program implementation.
•    Set in place or adapt DRC RFSA M&E policy, its yearly implementation plan and update (including monitoring and evaluation plans, targets).
•    Support operations team in the perspective of program growth and adaptive designing in order to meet set targets and goals.
•    Support communications team to produce evidence-based communications for internal and external audiences.

Ensure facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the area of monitoring and evaluation
•    Provide training and capacity building for DRC RFSA staff in effective monitoring and evaluation tools and systems.
•    Ensure transfer of monitoring and evaluation skills to a local community level through participative training and development of community-based systems such as the early warning system.
•    Search, collect and share new approaches and tools regarding designing, monitoring, and evaluation in order to keep FH DRC on a competitive level within the development and relief partnership.
•    Work closely with the CLA team to ensure program adaptation and learning, and production of high quality, evidence-based communication products.

Improve and further develop DRC’s RFSA M/E tools and systems
•    Further develop the M&E System and processes to function more efficiently in providing relevant, timely program assessment information to key stakeholders within the organization as well as external partners and community level groups.
•    Develop a national M&E System to harmonize and, where possible, standardize the indicators and processes which are used in different provinces, with different programs and donors.
•    Assist in developing a community based early warning system through monitoring of defined trigger indicators and a community level and triangulating this information with other early warning stakeholders.
•    Take a lead role in integrating M&E into new program design and implementation planning.
•    Facilitate the work of any external program evaluators and take a lead role in ensuring follow-up of their recommendations.
•    Establish an effective MIS/GIS systems for data management and presentation.

Other duties as assigned.

Job Level Specifications
•    Enthusiastic and committed to serve the poor in relation to FH’s Christian foundation and beliefs.
•    Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and statistical analysis software (SPSS, EPI-Info, or similar).
•    Strong organizational skills and focus on details.
•    Ability to multitask and meet strict deadlines.
•    Proven ability to work creatively and independently both in the field and in the office.
•    Strong team player and adept at creating a strong team spirit.
•    Ability to work with culturally diverse groups of people.
•    Ability to travel and work in difficult conditions and under pressure.
•    Proficient in written and verbal communication skills.
•    Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
•    Must have strong leadership, organizational management, and interpersonal communication skills, as well as sound analytical abilities.
•    Proven ability to successfully lead an intercultural team in a development context, including supervising long-term field staff and short term international and local experts is required.
•    Fitness to live and travel in rural and urban areas with extreme conditions and limited medical support.
•    Ability to travel up to 30% of time to fragile contexts, and/or locations.
Experience
•    At least 7 years of experience with leading the M&E of multi-year development or resilience awards.
•    Relevant experience in monitoring and evaluating large multi sectoral USAID BHA development programs is highly valued.
•    Minimum 5 years of living and working overseas in a developing country in an emergency context.
•    Well versed with USAID M&E regulations, processes, templates, and systems is a must.
•    Experience working in DRC or in a country with a similar level of socio-economic development is desirable.
•    Fluency in spoken and written English and French is required.
•    Ability to speak and write in Congolese or Swahili is preferred.
Education/Certifications
•    Master’s degree in a quantitative field (economics, agricultural/development economics, statistics, biostatistics, nutrition, applied sociology, or other relevant subject) with significant training in quantitative methods.
•    An undergraduate degree in a related field and 10 years relevant work experience leading the M&E of multi-year development or resilience awards.

Supervisor Responsibilities
Directly supervises staff. Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints, resolving problems, etc.

Safeguarding Policy
FH strives to provide an environment free from sexual exploitation and abuse and harassment in all places where relief and development programs are implemented. FH holds a zero-tolerance policy against sexual exploitation and abuse and harassment. FH expects its employees to maintain high ethical standards, protect organizational integrity and reputation, and ensure that FH work is carried out in honest and fair methods, in alignment with the Heartbeat Values and safeguarding and associated policies. Violations to stated policies will be subject to corrective action up to and including termination of employment.

Typically, successful candidates are hired at a salary rate up to midpoint of the range, based on relevant experience, internal equity, and budgetary allowances.

BENEFITS OFFERED
Insurance – Health, Disability, Life
Paid holidays, vacation, & sick leave
Pension, available on first of month after date of hire
Professional development

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