The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (Food Systems & Nutrition) will support in all data collection, analysis and learning activities related to the food systems and nutrition portfolio of the Helen Keller Sierra Leone Country Office. The person will work closely with both program teams to facilitate data collection, build/contribute to research protocols and data collection tools, assess field realities and support capacity building, as needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct regular field visits to ensure proper monitoring of all food systems and nutrition programs to ascertain adherence to timelines and standards of implementation.
• Support and contribute to all donor reports, as needed for the two portfolio projects.
• Hold regular reviews of M&E plans, tools and data for the food systems and nutrition projects with the relevant teams.
• Ensure collection and analysis of high quality (complete, accurate, consistent, and regular) data for the food systems and nutrition projects.
• Contribute towards strengthening M&E functions across the two portfolios.
• Contribute to the proposal and program design, as needed.
• Contribute towards development of program logframes, indicators, M&E tools, M&E workplans, etc., for food systems and nutrition projects.
• Actively collaborate with the region and global counterparts, as needed.

• Carry out additional tasks, as delegated by the supervisor.

Qualification and experience

• A bachelors’ degree in a relevant field – social science, statistics, international development, etc. A post-graduate degree will be an add on.
• Minimum of 3 years of proven experience in monitoring and evaluation in an office of similar size;
• Strong measurement, analytical and data skills inlcuding demonstrated experience in developing both quantitative and qualitative data collection tools.
• Excellent skills in data visualization, information management systems including different software.
• Must be able to work in a dynamic and complex environment.
• Proven experience in research, analysis and publication an added advantage.
• Excellent written and verbal English language skills.