Officer, Monitoring and Evaluation, Global Affairs and Public Policy, Executive Education, Grant Position

Reports to: Director, Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP), Executive Education

Purpose: The job holder will ensure smooth Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) process in accordance with the program’s procedures. He/she will be responsible for the designing, coordination, and implementation of the monitoring and evaluation plan/tools of the project. Also, lead the follow up of the project's M&E system, ensuring that programmatic design and implementation strategies are well met in alignment with project’s log-frame and performance management system.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Design and implement a monitoring and evaluation strategy and framework that serves the project’s goal and objectives to ensure achieving the overall impact
• Lead on the monitoring and evaluation activities of the project to ensure proper implementation of activities
• Collect data and maintain a data storage data using efficient M&E tools including completing a baseline
• Handle the data analysis process and allow the access of monitoring and evaluation data/activities through database tools
• Collaborate with the donor’s M&E team to agree on the Performance Monitoring Framework and provide relevant data on a regular basis
• Follow up on project’s activities to ensure alignment with project’s performance management system and outputs of the project including the research component, curriculum design, training effective delivery, and career advising
• Design, deliver and report monitoring tools
• Process documentation of project’s design and implementation such as good practices, human stories, lessons learned and so on
• Support the development of M&E system and ensure that M&E tools are in place and compliant with M&E framework and provide support to project team as necessary
• Draft regular monitoring and evaluation reports on status of results and implementation progress in alignment with project’s outputs and activities
• Ensure that project is gender sensitive and mainstreamed throughout the implementation phases
• Perform others duties as assigned

Requirements:

Minimum Education Requirement:

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in economic, political science or equivalent
• Master’s degree would be preferred

Experience:

• 8 years of experience including 5 years of experience in project monitoring and evaluation and data management
• Experience working in international organization is preferred
• Experience working in women economic empowerment programming is preferred

Skills:

• Excellent English and Arabic language skills both oral and written
• Knowledge of data collection tools
• Strong interpersonal, communication and organization skills
• Excellent analytical skills and comfortable in dealing with data aggregation
• Team player and multi-tasker
• Demonstrated experience in program’s M&E with and quantitative and qualitative skills
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office such as excel and word

The position is open until August 15, 2022

Placement is based on the candidate’s experience and skills. Only candidates who make it to the short list will be contacted.

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