Job Description

Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (2)

Principal Location: One in Mogadishu & One in Hargeisa

Reporting to: Program Manager

Contract Type:Full time, fixed term one year, with possible extension                                                                   

Background:

AET as part of Street Child group, believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 500,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 33,000 caregivers to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children. AET vision is taking one million children to Schools and one million more.

AET is looking for dynamic competent   professionals to part of current innovative approaches in education protection and humanitarian. If you feel you can the fit the purpose, we are recruiting a Monitoring and Evaluation officer to work with AET/Street Child Somalia & Somaliland team.

Part 1:  Role Purpose:

As the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, your role is to provide support in monitoring and evaluating the impact of a portfolio of AET/street child projects in education, protection, and humanitarian sectors. Working under the guidance of the Regional Representative, you will report to the Program Manager and assist in planning, coordinating, supervising, monitoring, evaluating, and documenting project activities in accordance with program documents. Your primary objective is to enhance the impact of projects and facilitate positive change within communities in your assigned area.

Part 2:  Key Responsibilities:

1. Monitoring and Evaluation

1. Develop and administer monitoring tools to track program indicators; in line with the program implementation and M&E plans.
2. Oversee data collection processes and provide technical support to the implementing teams.
3. Support development of   key project performance indicators and ensure robust collection of data to evidence performance against agreed indicators   throughout the duration of the projects
4. Analyse data and produce reports as required by donors and the management team.
5. Perform data analysis to produce required results for different reports.
6. Conduct routine data quality assessments and verifications to ensure that data reported is accurate and consistent. Provide of overall leadership and technical support for mentoring, monitoring and documentation of lessons learnt, and to support assessments.
7. Visit program sites to verify that activities are implemented as planned and are high quality, relevant and safe as per AET’s programming approach and report any concerns to the country representative
8. Input into the development of theory of change, M&E and indicator tracking plans for the projects
9. Continuously identify and document programming issues in projects target areas and agree reporting mechanisms with program manager, involving community level initiatives.

1. Reporting

1. Compile monthly project performance reports for implementing projects.

2. Maintain and update program databases and online reporting systems.
3. Work closely with other departments to finalise on project reports.

1. Produce reports on project impact as per donor requirements

1. Accountability
2. Ensure the Complaint Feedback Mechanisms are functional and accessible to beneficiaries.
3. Ensure that the agreed action plans are followed in timely manner by program team and that the feedback loop is closed.
4. Maintain a complaints and feedback database while performing regular analysis of the feedback data.
5. Assist Programme teams, with successes observed and challenges encountered in the field, lessons learnt and recommendations on best practices to implement in the future in a Monitoring Follow Up report after each monitoring mission
6. Collaborate with Programme teams at area-level to ensure actions are taken based on MEAL findings and recommendations, and document such actions in a Monitoring, and evaluations
7. Evaluation and Research
8. Coordinate the implementation of internal evaluations.

1. Lead on the development of evaluation tools which are project specific.
2. Supervise data collection on a regular basis.
3. Conduct relevant research studies for ongoing projects and write research reports on the study.
4. Compile reports from evaluation studies to support the design and implementation of projects.

1. Other
2. Support partner organisations to strengthen M&E systems.

1. Support in capacity building of project staff  with focus on monitoring and evaluation
2. Perform any other duty assigned by country representative

Skills and Qualifications

How to apply

Please submit your CV and a covering letter explaining why you think you could make an extraordinary candidate in this role to hr@africaeducationaltrust.org and copy a.mohamed@africaeducationaltrust.org Please indicate ‘M & E Officer – Hargeisa ’’ or ‘M & E Officer – Mogadishu ’’  in the email subject line.

Application submission deadline

Deadline for submission of applications Saturday 15th November 2023 at 12:00 PM

We will be reviewing applications as they are submitted so interested candidates are encouraged to apply early.

Emailhr@africaeducationaltrust.org