Graduate Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at Save the Children Nigeria - Gombe, Katsina and Zamfara

Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children's lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfill their potential. We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer - on behalf of CSO Partner

Locations: Gombe, Katsina and Zamfara, Nigeria
Job Type: Permanent

Scope of Role

• This is a partner staff role. The staff will be engaged and paid by SCI partners, and reports to the partner’s Project Team Lead in the three states of Gombe, Kastina and Zamfara.

Key Areas of Accountability
Objective 1: Support collection of reports and quality checks:

• Collects data pertaining to safe space activities in the communities
• Verify the reported data by safe space facilitators to ensure accuracy
• Responsible for data entry and maintenance of database
• Ensure timely sharing of monthly data reported by safe space facilitators and other activities of partners with MEAL officer in save the children office
• Ensure quality benchmarks are adhered to during implementation of activities by partner staff
• Provide close supervision of safe space activities and also conducts periodic data verification exercises
• Prepares reports containing descriptive, analytical, and evaluative content
• Support the project lead in suing the data for planning and decision making
• Support supervision of community ASRH outreach services
• Supports the logistics and coordination of field research activities
• Organizes events such as workshops, meetings, seminars etc
• Prepares correspondence as needed
• Build the capacities of safe space facilitators on data management.
• Provide on the job training and mentoring on data reporting to safe space facilitators
• Support project lead and other staff on other capacity building activities
• Support project lead in building  the capacities of safe space facilitators on complaint and response mechanism
• Support the setting up of complaint and response mechanism system in the communities
• Receive and document beneficiaries’ complaints in the database
• Work with project lead and other team members on complaint resolution and timely sharing of feedbacks to the beneficiaries
• Maintain and share monthly CRM database with the MEAL officer in save the children office
• Work with field teams to collect information on case studies and success stories
• Ensure program document are properly archived
• Provide other cross cutting supports when the needs arise.

Requirements, Skills and Experience
Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or Higher National Diploma in a relevant discipline (health sciences, social sciences, development studies or other)
• Candidates must have at least 1-2 years of progressive experience working in a similar position
• Formal training in research methods at a graduate level is an asset

Knowledge and Skills:

• Skills and experience conducting data verification, analysis, reporting and monitoring
• Experience in transcribing audio data, and in data entry
• Excellent IT skills
• Good writing, editing, research, and presentation skills
• Previous experience in facilitating trainings, workshops and events
• Strong organizational, planning and prioritization skills
• Competent and experienced in general office administration, coordination
• and logistics
• Ability to lead on detailed logistical tasks such as those required for fieldwork or when organizing events
• Excellent skills in oral and written communications both in English and Hausa languages
• Good interpersonal skills, ability to work in a multi-cultural team environment
• Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills are an advantage.

Application Closing Date
24th September, 2018.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online