DAI is seeking experienced candidates for an upcoming Food Security programme in Zimbabwe. The programme will look at developing markets and private sector to better support rural livelihoods; facilitating links between commercial markets and farmer groups to increase farmer productivity and income.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will report to the overall Team Leader, and:
- Develop project monitoring systems and processes
- Ensure baseline data collection at the start of the programme and that data is collected regularly against indicators
- Develop and drive a sound project performance monitoring and evaluation plan
- Develop monitoring and evaluation reports
- Develop monitoring and evaluation strategy to ensure lessons learned are incorporated in activities to achieve greater impact
- Develop sound performance management indicators
- Collect, analyse and aggregate results, developing clear ‘results stories’ demonstrating outcome and impact of programme activities
- Monitor and report on the progress and performance of the programme, as well as grantees, as required
- Support the team to track gender inclusion strategies and participation of minority groups in market development activities
Requirements:
- Minimum 8 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation
- Experience working in agriculture programmes essential
- Advanced degree in relevant field of agriculture development, monitoring and evaluation or a related field
- Excellent project management skills
- Experience in conducting monitoring and evaluation on M4P/market development projects
- Experience working on donor funded projects
- Experience in monitoring and evaluating Agricultural Value Chain Projects
- Experience in risk assessment and risk management
- Experience in working in Southern Africa
- Good stakeholder engagement and communications skills
- Experience in knowledge management and evidence based dissemination
- Experience in developing M&E frameworks which incorporate gender mainstreaming/inclusion targets
- Excellent communication skills; and relationship management
- Fluency in English (both written and oral) is essential; and fluency in local languages highly desirable
Project Location: Harare based with occasional travel within Zimbabwe Length of the project: 5-7 years Anticipated
Project Start date: April 2014
Deadline for Applications: 30th November 2013
- Please note that all profiles are indicative only and therefore subject to change once the ToR is made available.*