Food for the Hungry Kenya - Monitoring & Evaluation Manager

Title: M&E Manager
Reports to: Country Director (CD)

Closing Date: 15th July 2010
Duty Station: Nairobi with frequent travels to the field offices

Job Summary

Food for the Hungry /Kenya, a Christian relief and development agency is looking for M&E Manager to head its M&E department. The M&E Manager is responsible for guiding the overall M&E strategy and implementation of related activities within the organization and providing timely and relevant information to program staff and other stakeholders.

Specific Duties

Key result 1: Setting up M&E system

• Setting up M&E system and ensuring it is implemented effectively by the key stakeholder, namely the program staff and M&E staff.
• Help strengthen the project log-frame matrix, particularly in areas of objective hierarchy, indicators and monitoring mechanisms.
• Help develop the Annual Work Plan Budgets (AWPB) and guide the process of identifying and designing the key indicators for each project, to record and report physical progress against the AWPB. Also steer the process for designing the format of such progress reports.
• Guide the process for identifying the key performance questions and parameters for monitoring project performance and comparing it to targets and design the format for such performance reports.
• With stakeholders, set out the framework and procedures for the evaluation of project activities.

Key result 2: Implementing of M&E

• Based on the AWPB and in particular the program budgets, design the framework for the physical and process monitoring of project activities
• Review monitoring reports, analyze them for impact evaluation and identify the causes of potential bottlenecks in project implementation.
• Collaborate with staff and implementing partners on qualitative monitoring to provide relevant information for ongoing evaluation of project activities, effects and impacts.
• Foster participatory planning and monitoring by training and involving primary stakeholder groups in the M&E of activities and plan for regular opportunities to identify lessons learned and implications for the project’s next steps.

Key result 3: Staff and communication

• Supervise and ensure all M&E staff are fulfilling their assigned roles.
• Prepare reports on M&E findings, as required, working with technical staff and other implementing partners.
• Guide the regular sharing of the outputs of M&E findings with project staff, implementing partners and primary stakeholders, ensuring that monitoring data are discussed in the appropriate forum and in a timely fashion in terms of implications for future action.

Competencies and skills

• Minimum Bachelors degree in development related studies with strong quantitative background such as economics, statistics and public health, or its equivalent from a reputable training institution.
• Experience in program M&E preferable in donor funded projects
• Minimum of five years relevant experience in Non Governmental development organization.
• Must be computer literate with excellent report writing, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Enthusiastic and committed to serve the poor in relation to FH/Kenya’s Christian Foundation Beliefs.

Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications, updated CV with three referees and day telephone contacts to: Human Resources Manager, P.O Box 14978 - 00800 Nairobi or email address hr_fhkenya@fh.org

NB: Only short listed candidates will be contacted

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