Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (NGO)
Location: Lagos Nigeria
Reporting Line: Reports to the Program Manager
About the Organization
Our client is a womens empowerment movement founded to catalyze female empowerment and development. The organization provides a community for both female millennials and adults alike to access information that helps them grow in their careers businesses and relationships.
As the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer in a nonprofit organization that implements womens socioeconomic empowerment and development programs your responsibilities will include program implementation collecting analyzing and reporting data to help the organization assess the effectiveness of its programs. He/She will also provide technical support to the team in program implementation communication activities strategy development and implementation and report writing among other tasks.
Job Description
The M&E Officer will provide support and guidance in the collection and analysis of data to measure performance against established indicators.
Monitoring all project activities expenditures and progress toward achieving outputs.
Developing and strengthening evaluation procedures to assess impact and effectiveness.
Coordination and implementation of the organization s program activities (training meetings workshops conferences seminars and as may be assigned) and other events according to organizations requirements and program workplans.
Preparing regular reports to provide insights into project status and recommend improvements.
This role also includes ensuring accountability and optimizing capacity development outcomes.
He/She will work as part of the organization s program team and assist in developing program strategy designing program activities developing proposals and reports supporting the team s efforts negotiating and tracking activity financial expenditure.
Perform tasks and functions according to the directions provided by the Program Manager/Country Manager.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Develop and strengthen monitoring inspection and evaluation procedures
Monitor all project activities expenditures and progress towards achieving the program outputs
Monitor and evaluate overall progress on achievement of expected results;
Monitor the sustainability of the project s results;
Conduct capacity assessment on existing monitoring and evaluation system
Develop indicators and a monitoring strategy for the project;
Recommend further improvement of the logical framework;
Develop monitoring and impact indicators for the programs successes;
Provide inputs information and statistics for quarterly annual and other reports to the Program Management Team (PMT)
Participate in annual project reviews and planning workshops and assist the Program Manager in preparing relevant reports;
Support monitoring and evaluation of the effects and impact of the program;
Provide feedback to the Program Manager on project strategies and activities;
Suggest strategies to the Program Management Team for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the program by identifying bottlenecks in completing program activities and developing plans to minimize or eliminate such bottlenecks;
Report monthly quarterly halfyearly and annual progress on all activities.
Measurable Outputs and Performance Indicators
Work with other program personnel to monitor and evaluate the performance of the organization vendors engaged consultants and partners (where applicable) on program activities identifying successes and failures and recommending program adjustments accordingly.
Assist with all aspects of team projects and objectives and lead the development of work products in collaboration with Team members.
Mobilize program participants the media and stakeholders for events and program
Update and maintain program files and program participants contacts for monitoring and evaluation activities and internal reporting.
Monitor current events and developments in Africa to provide socioeconomic development and programmatic analysis and recommendations.
Travel independently and/or as part of a team to various locations to support the organization s programmatic objectives.
Perform other duties as directed by the Program Manager/Country Manager.
Qualifications
Bachelor s Degree in the relevant field data analysis economics social development international relations or a related field.
At least 5 years of handson experience in a similar position in nonprofit (NGO) work and international development preferably working directly with entrepreneurs women and/or youth and other sector stakeholders.
Experience working on donorfunded economic empowerment programs education and capacitybuilding programs;
Experience in project cycle management coordinating project activities with participants project accounting and monitoring and evaluation; vendor engagement data collation analysis and interpretation for informed programming and decision making.
Working knowledge of the nonprofit strategy and logical framework Womens Economic Empowerment (WEE) and socioeconomics.
Experience writing reports and project proposals.
Ability to prioritize plan and organize work to tight timeframes handle multiple tasks and be flexible with changing priorities.
Experience promoting sustainable participation of women and youths in economic development.
The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate the following attributes:
The ability to analyze social systems and data and to understand the stories behind the data.
Proficiency in using industry technology tools to analyze visualize data and report.
Ability to explain data insights through clear reporting and provide feedback for impact optimization.
Ability to effectively present data and reports to inform programming and stakeholder engagement.
Experience in event organization; detailedoriented and coordination
Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines: Strong communicator and presenter in English both verbally and in writing and
Ability to work independently and as a member of a team to coordinate and lead the efforts of other professionals to effectively meet organizational and program deliverables
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