Monitoring, Evaluation And Learning Specialist - Fufan

Basic Qualifications
These are the requirements that any qualified candidate must meet. Typically includes:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Agribusiness, project Management, Social Sciences or related discipline with 3 years’ experience (alternatively Master's Degree with 1 year experience) in monitoring and evaluation and also donor funded programming.
• Experience utilizing M&E methodologies including qualitative, quantitative, and participatory methods as well as the use of causal logic in designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating projects.

Preferred Qualifications:
Additional qualifications that would make a candidate more desirable:

• Experience working in Nigeria.
• Experience working with an INGO.
• Experience working in an entrepreneurship donor funded project.

Required Languages:

• Excellent written and spoken English

Travel:

• Willingness to travel to field locations

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
This section should highlight the competencies that would make a candidate successful in the role such as:

• Strong interpersonal skill.
• Expertise in data management, analysis, and interpretation, skilled at data visualization.
• Demonstrable critical skills in data collection, analysis and reporting, and performance monitoring of donor funded projects.
• Ability to work in a multicultural context as a flexible and respectful team player.
• Proficiency in working with Comcare is an advantage.
• Proficient in MS Office: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the enterprise development landscape in Nigeria.

Basic Qualifications
These are the requirements that any qualified candidate must meet. Typically includes:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Agribusiness, project Management, Social Sciences or related discipline with 3 years’ experience (alternatively Master's Degree with 1 year experience) in monitoring and evaluation and also donor funded programming.
• Experience utilizing M&E methodologies including qualitative, quantitative, and participatory methods as well as the use of causal logic in designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating projects.

Preferred Qualifications:
Additional qualifications that would make a candidate more desirable:

• Experience working in Nigeria.
• Experience working with an INGO.
• Experience working in an entrepreneurship donor funded project.

Required Languages:

• Excellent written and spoken English

Travel:

• Willingness to travel to field locations

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
This section should highlight the competencies that would make a candidate successful in the role such as:

• Strong interpersonal skill.
• Expertise in data management, analysis, and interpretation, skilled at data visualization.
• Demonstrable critical skills in data collection, analysis and reporting, and performance monitoring of donor funded projects.
• Ability to work in a multicultural context as a flexible and respectful team player.
• Proficiency in working with Comcare is an advantage.
• Proficient in MS Office: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the enterprise development landscape in Nigeria.

Primary Functions & Responsibilities
The MEL specialist will support MEL implementation for the project, including:

• Coordinate data collection from primary data sources to final reporting against project performance indicators and emergent project information needs.
• Support application of qualitative and quantitative methods to inform knowledge gaps.
• Contribute to the design of forms, surveys, and indices as well as the data management system.
• Development of databases and dashboards for data visualization.
• Perform regular data quality assessments, data cleaning, and data analysis.
• Conduct field visits to understand the context and identify additional data needs.
• Provide ongoing technical assistance and training to project technical staff on their role in data collection, analysis, review and use.
• Coordinate the project’s learning agenda and specific learning questions
• Ensure that project’s monitoring system captures impact on women and other disadvantaged groups
• Become familiarized with the applicable donor rules and regulations, including the donor’s evaluation guidelines and indicator handbook
• Understand the specific MEL deliverables that the project is contractually responsible for, and manage their development

Provide inputs to data-driven decision-making:

• Assist in the process of adaptive management in the project using project MEL data.
• Support the documentation of best practices and production of information to capture and share lessons learned.
• Collaborate with Regenerative Agriculture Advisors and Subawardees MEL SPOC to consolidate data and insights from projects.
• Support information flows across the implementation team and the sharing and analysis of new information.
• Actively lead and contribute to collaboration learning and adapting throughout the project lifetime.
• Assist in the development of all project reports.

Participate in the broader MEL ecosystem at TechnoServe:

• Attend capacity building meetings and other relevant events related to MEL as directed.
• Support access to and insight into the project’s MEL approach to facilitate the Regional MEL’s assessment of the project against organizational standards and annual impact reporting.
• Assist in the development of corporate measurement reports as required.