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Job Title:   Senior Officer, Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

Organisation: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with 190 member National Societies. As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, our work is guided by seven fundamental principles; humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality.

Job Summary:  The Senior Officer for Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (PMER) in the regional office is part of the regional management team and the Planning, Partnership and Resource Development Unit. The incumbent will work closely with the Partnership and Resource Development team, as well as the other technical units in the regional office, the cluster and country offices. This position is subject to support and technical guidance from Partnerships Division in Geneva and the PMER Manger in the Policy, Strategy and Knowledge (PSK) Department in particular.

This position will help the PMER team develop and implement appropriate monitoring and evaluation processes and systems to support project management, impact assessment and learning. Providing technical support to Heads of Unit, Country and Cluster offices, the M & E Senior Officer will ensure data collection, analysis and dissemination of monitoring and evaluation results.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Monitoring

• Ensure that monitoring plans are in place for all appeals and plans
• Develop and maintain monitoring schedules for all programmes and projects
• Provide project management support by facilitating the use of regular monitoring reports for analysis and decision making.
• Aggregate and evaluate monitoring results and feedback across the region and technical domains to enable effective program and project management and organizational learning
• Provide constant communication and support to ensure Country and Cluster offices are aware of their monitoring and evaluation obligations.

Evaluation

• Advise sector leads, country and cluster leads on the utility and relevance of formative and summative evaluation designs and provide advice to ensure rigor in methodology and conclusions.
• Draw on various evaluation designs such as Mixed Methods, Rapid Appraisal, Case Study, Interrupted time series and longitudinal, participatory, pattern analysis and Cross-sectional designs to advise colleagues.
• Identify opportunities for participatory evaluation and integration with Community Engagement and Accountability to ensure evaluations consider community input
• Use qualitative data when applicable and advise on qualitative data collection methods and good practices (including interview skills, focus group facilitation, and survey design and response categories).
• Advise on the utility of various types of data collection and analysis tools using computer software and IT. (e.g. STATA, R, SPSS, Survey Monkey, Computer assisted Content Analysis)
• Advise on sampling techniques (such as simple random sampling, stratified, and purposive) and their applications and relevance for a selected evaluation or methodology.
• Provide quality control during the review and comment phase throughout an evaluation process
• Lead negotiations with external partner and lead author on evaluations where necessary.
• Participate in relevant internal and external networks to stay current on trends and technology related to monitoring; propose new tools for continuous improvement and learning.
• Ensures best practices are captured and disseminated; propose and lead the production of large-scale evaluation material.
• Aggregate and evaluate monitoring results and feedback across the region and technical domains to enable effective program and project management and organizational learning.

M&E System

• Provide technical leadership to ensure monitoring systems include SMART indicators that demonstrate impact or progress, reliable data collection methods and analysis of program and project results.
• Provide technical support during program and project design phase to ensure indicators are well aligned with regional and global results-matrices
• Help design and maintain indicator and qualitative data platforms, such as Excel, Survey Monkey, Google Analytics; develop and maintain survey instruments for learning activities and analytics
• Identifies standard sources of bias that effect data validity using different methods and distinguish between standard types of statistics and types of quantitative data used to present and analyse evaluation findings, including frequency distributions, cross tabulation, significance tests, and variance analysis.

Data management

• Provide technical advice/support on the suitable data management system for the organization
• Ensure ethical standards regrading data protection is observed e.g. cloud storage
• Draw inference from the project data and provide analysis that can support programming and throw more light on effects of the intervention

Technical Support/Capacity Building

• Provide training/Technical support on monitoring and evaluation for IFRC and National Society staff as requested.
• Provide tools, tips and guides to help budget holders and National Societies design monitoring and evaluation plans and studies; lead training of staff and NS on monitoring and evaluation.
• Stay current on trends concerning monitoring and evaluation and advise the region on adaption and adoption of new tools and technology.
• Support the sharing of findings and lessons learned to improve overall organizational learning.
• Provide input to the development of global quality standards and tools in the areas monitoring and evaluation

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a University degree, or equivalent, in relevant discipline (International Relations, Humanitarian Affairs, Statistics etc.). Required
• Relevant post-graduate degree or MBA, Statistics (or equivalent). Required
• Relevant professional training or relevant experience in monitoring or evaluation.
• At least three years of work experience in corporate reporting and planning. Required
• Minimum of 3 years work experience in an international setting. Preferred
• Experience working in the developing countries. Preferred
• Experience working in the Africa Region. Preferred
• People Management experience. Preferred
• Experience developing, communicating, and implementing business plans. Required
• Knowledge, Skills and Languages
• Demonstrated capacity for analytical and strategic thinking. Required
• Superior writing and editing skills. Required
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills. Required
• Excellent relationship building skills; ability to build and strengthen internal networks. Required
• Expertise in planning processes. Required
• Conducting and/or supervising needs assessments and surveys, data analysis. Preferred
• Values: Respect for diversity; Integrity; Professionalism; Accountability.
• Core competencies: Communication; Collaboration and teamwork; Judgement and decision making; National society and customer relations; Creativity and innovation; Building trust.

Comments: This a Regional National position being out-posted to any of our 15 Country Cluster Delegations with a preference for Chad, Ethiopia, or Uganda. Candidates who are nationals of these countries and meet the qualifications and required experience are encouraged to apply.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested candidates should apply online at the link below.

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Deadline: 10^th August 2023

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