The Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Officer will provide oversight and support for the project’s monitoring, evaluation, learning, and performance tracking efforts. The MEAL Officer will play a critical role in ensuring data-driven decision-making and progress tracking to achieve project goals and deliverables effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitoring and Data Collection: The M&E officer shall design and implement monitoring systems to track project outputs, outcomes, and impacts, coordinate data collection efforts from project sites, ensuring accuracy and timely input and regularly collect, review, and manage M&E data, making adjustments to data collection methods as needed.
- Develop and oversee the implementation of evaluation frameworks for assessing project effectiveness
- Conduct periodic evaluations to measure project progress against targets and milestones.
- Analyzing data collected to identify trends, lessons learned, and opportunities for project improvement.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual reports summarizing M&E activities, findings, and recommendations for project stakeholders and donors.
- Provide M&E training and capacity-building support to project staff to ensure data accuracy and efficient monitoring as well as supporting project staff and partners in understanding and applying M&E insights for adaptive project management.
- Ensure compliance with donor requirements, Omia Agribusiness policies, and industry best practices in M&E and maintain a comprehensive documentation of M&E plans, tools, reports, and other relevant records.
Qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, quantitative economics or a related field.
- At least 3 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, preferably in youth employment or agribusiness projects.
- Demonstrated experience with data collection, data analysis, and reporting.
- Strong understanding of M&E tools, methodologies, and best practices.
- Proficiency in M&E software and tools (E.g. SPSS and STATA or similar data analysis software)
- Excellent communication and report-writing skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
