MEAL Officer

General Position Summary

• The Monitoring, Evaluation, Communication and Reporting Officer as part of a team to operationalize specific program systems.
• The M&E Officer is responsible for supporting WINN staff to regularly collect, enter, verify and analyze data and make timely database adjustments, to measure the impact of the program.
• He/she will work closely with other project team members and will closely coordinate with other program staff to help ensure monitoring and evaluation of data is accurately incorporated into all reports and information products.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Understand and maintain an M&E system database that improves WINN’s ability to inform program implementation, analyze data and represent impact to donors, government, partner organizations and communities.
• Ensure all relevant program staff are able to utilize the database to analyze program information and results.
• Regularly review data entered into the M&E system to locate and fix problems with data entry or integrity.
• Manage regular synchronizations and backups of field data to cloud-based data management system.
• Troubleshoot front and back end issues with the database, including any synchronization issues of field-level data.
• Work as part of a team to facilitate and support M&E operations including baseline, annual and end line surveys, regular monitoring, data collection, analysis and reporting according to the M&E work plan.
• Generate data tables/graphs/reports from the M&E database at regular intervals, ensuring reports/information are available for program implementation staff when required. Facilitate data analysis with program implementation team as requested.
• Conduct regular field visits to ensure all elements of the M&E system and database are better to utilize effectively by all stakeholders, assessing and identifying breakdowns and areas that require clarifications and improvements.
• Ensure field teams always have the most recent version of all M&E tools and documents.
• Assist the team in improving the program’s M&E systems by identifying good practices, field-tested lessons learned and creative recommendations; share with and encourage staff to incorporate these in their daily work.
• Work closely with the Program Manager to develop and deliver staff training, improving capacities in monitoring, evaluation and database management.
• Review or edit data in reports as requested and required.
• Monitoring and evaluation of field projects.
• Other duties as may be assigned to him/her.

Requirements

• A university Degree in Statistics, computer science, Economics, M&E, Business Admin, or any relevant field is required
• Three or more years of experience working in the NGO sector in M&E, ideally in protection, Livelihood, community development, or economic and market development. Prior experience carrying out surveys or conducting qualitative and quantitative data collection with computerized data management systems.
• Result-oriented, teamwork, good analytical, communication, and facilitation skills, skills, problem solver, Advanced computer skills in SPSS, and MS Office programs, particularly Excel, and Access. Strong analytical skills coupled with a solid understanding of quantitative indicators and data collection strategies.
• English, Hausa, and local language desirable.