Proposed M&E Manager – Guinea-Bissau 75 views0 applications

Shelter For Life International (SFL) is an international faith-based relief and development organization with over 30 years’ experience in providing sustainable development and humanitarian assistance to post-conflict countries around the world. We are currently operational in Afghanistan, Liberia, and Senegal, with Headquarters located in Minnetonka, MN. Our team provides support and assistance in the following areas:

1. Population Movement and Settlement
2. Public Infrastructure Reconstruction
3. Economic and Social Development

Our mission is to Demonstrate God’s love by enabling people affected by conflict and disaster to restore their lives and rebuild their communities. To learn more about us, please head to www.shelter.org

Position Summary:

We are recruiting a Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Manager for a proposed multi-year USDA-funded McGovern Dole Food for Education program in Guinea-Bissau. The M&E Manager plays a technical and managerial lead to implement the M&E system for the FFE program. Using qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods, the M&E system supports SFL and its partners to carefully monitor program performance and rigorously analyze the impact of the program. The M&E Manager is responsible for the successful implementation of the system, including a wide range of data collection tools. This position reports to the FFE Chief of Party in Guinea-Bissau and the M&E Manager at Headquarters.

Primary Responsibilities:

· As an experienced M&E professional, provide strategic direction and detailed oversight of technical M&E plan, developing or adjusting data collection methodologies as needed. Ensure standardization and protection of SFL’s M&E policies and procedures, including internal controls which promote accountability and donor compliance.

· Monitoring: oversee a consistent and robust monitoring of activities and outputs; complete ongoing data collection according the M&E Plan; conduct regular field monitoring and visual observation.

· Accountability and reporting: conduct spot checks on activities; document beneficiary feedback and escalate critical issues as needed; report on monitoring activities, evaluation findings, and key learnings.

· Evaluation of impact: ensure consistent collection and analysis of key data for analysis of program impact; collect qualitative information and human interest stories which demonstrate impact; provide field-level support to external evaluators during midterm and final evaluations.

· Technology for M&E: make the best use of SFL’s data management tools, including Salesforce and TaroWorks (work closely with IT to promote a focussed approach to the use of technology in data collection and analysis).

· Organizational learning: share key learnings with program leadership on a regular basis, including through clear reports and compelling data visualization; facilitate periodic learning events with operations team to support an adaptive management approach and human-centered design of interventions.

Education and Experience Requirements:

· Bachelor’s degree in international development, economics or relevant field (Master’s preferred)

· At least eight (8) years’ experience in performance monitoring and evaluation for international development programs, including data collection and analysis. M&E experience in USG-funded projects preferred.

· Project cycle knowledge, and strong understanding of quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, including significant experience overseeing regional surveys by data collection team.

· Experience using relevant software to collect and analyse data, including mobile data collection software, MS Office, and statistical packages (such as SPSS, STATA, etc.); Salesforce experience preferred.

· Excellent spoken and written English is required. Portuguese is highly preferred, and local languages are a significant asset, particularly Creole.

· Excellent interpersonal skills and cross-cultural sensitivity are critical to this role. The successful candidate will be good at listening and team-building in a complex and highly multicultural project. Support of SFL values is important to this position.

· Prior experience in Guinea-Bissau or neighboring countries in West Africa is preferable.

SFL is interested in applicants whose professional ethics, values and determination to achieve impact are evident and aligned with organizational priorities. This position is contingent on SFL being awarded the project.