Samaritan’s Purse – Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
South Sudan: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, Unity State, South Sudan
Organization: Samaritan’s Purse
Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 31 Jan 2017
Samaritan’s Purse (SP) is looking for a Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Officer for our office in South Sudan. Serving on the M&E team, you will be tasked with ensuring our programming is reaching the goals we’ve set out as an organization, and in accordance to our donor’s standards. This is vital as we believe through excellence in our work.
Description of Job duties:
- Provide overall Management for the design and implementation of the M&E system in Unity State, working closely with other staff, consultants and partners and provide progress updates to the Area Coordinator, donors and Key stakeholders.
- Assist program staff in ensuring monitoring tools and M&E plans are incorporated in the proposal writing stage for Unity State*.*
- Identify programming information gaps which need to be addressed in order to better facilitate overall humanitarian response.
- Design M&E strategies for SP field program in Unity State ensuring that all activities and results meet quality standards for UNHCR, SPHERE, WHO or other standards where appropriate and are in line with SP’s Program Management Field Operation Guide.
· Assist Program Managers to develop and then implement realistic monitoring plans for individual programs that capture quantitative and qualitative data for comparison against goals and objectives.
· Ensure M&E methodologies and reports are approved by SPs Program Development Division (AMT).
· Select and incorporate appropriate and internationally standardized performance indicators, such as Food Consumption Score (FCS), Coping Strategies Index (CSI), Household Hunger Scale (HHs) for integration into on-going monitoring activities.
· Assist Program Managers in routine monitoring of their projects and ensuring that activity information is collected in an efficient and timely manner and is in line with SP PM FOG requirements.
· Maintain an effective information database for projects which should include activities, results, targets and progress reports.
· Serve as the primary point person for all monitoring and evaluation related work
· Take the lead in formal research activities (i.e. surveys both quantitative and qualitative)
· Develop and refine various data collection instruments (both quantitative and qualitative) and maintain a results database to aggregate data.
· Train and/or participate in rapid needs assessments, baselines and evaluations to inform program design.
· Train and assist program field staff to conduct surveys using appropriate standardized methods.
· Take the lead in the use of Mobile Data Collection ( MDC) for activity and results monitoring
· Manage the information-gathering process for results and performance results, in addition to other briefings, summaries, papers, presentations, etc. for various audiences as needed.
· Support Program Managers to produce reports (monthly, quarterly, annual, final) in a timely manner which accurately reflects field level conditions and programming impact against objectives which document good practices, lessons learned trends, and implementation issues, etc.
· Organize training to build capacity of staff on M&E topics such as data collection, management and analysis, and report writing techniques to ensure compliance with donor standards.
· Facilitate evaluation sessions with Program staff on lessons learned, program performance and work plans in partnership with relevant stakeholders. · Provide training to program staff in the use of Mobile Data Collection (MDC) equipment for project monitoring purposes.
Job requirements:
· A minimum of a Bachelors’ degree in development related subjects preferable, such as Economics or Statistics with a minimum of 2 years in Monitoring and evaluation.
· One year of college-level Biblical studies preferred.
· Demonstrates substantial experience in an M&E or programming role.
· Communication and analytical skills.
· Computer skills especially statistical analysis using SPSS, MS Access, STATA, Excel, among others.
· Demonstrated ability in Data Collection, Data Management and Analysis.
· Experience of conducting project evaluations including using survey methodologies of Cluster and LQAS.
· Good knowledge of project cycle management and development.
· Arabic language skills preferred but not required.
· Experience managing staff preferred
· Experience living and working in challenging settings
· Perform activities of moderate physical activity and somewhat strenuous daily activities of a primarily administrative nature.
· Camp in remote field sites
· Ride in light vehicles over rough terrain
· May travel in country with exposure to communicable diseases, hot and humid weather conditions.
12 month contract with the potential for renewal.
This is an unaccompanied position.
International Employee Benefits
Employees who choose to work internationally get to take advantage of the following benefits:
· Medical, prescription, dental & vision coverage
· Disability insurance
· Term Life insurance
· Retirement savings plan
· Ten paid holidays (holiday observance will depend on the host country)
· Annual home leave
· Twelve vacation days per year
How to apply:
To apply for this position, please visit our website here: https://goo.gl/6jsAfP