Project: USAID/NIGERIA’S NORTHERN EDUCATION INITATIVE PLUS
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Has overall responsibility for leading and managing all major M&E tasks related to the project. This includes strategizing and conceiving monitoring and evaluations, setting ongoing priorities; leading implementation, and reviewing technical progress of M&E component.
Implements monitoring and evaluation process including data analysis and reporting.
Ensures that the methodologies proposed to measure the programs impact on access, retention, reading and learning outcomes, school safety, community engagement, gender, disability-inclusive, and conflict sensitive measures, are consistent and systematically tracked and reported.
Creates and updates a comprehensive M&E plan to ensure all requisite data is collected in a timely manner in order to report progress toward performance indicators. This includes routine (monthly/quarterly) appraisal of performance against targets, challenges to achievement as well as reasons for success.
Creates a comprehensive data collection plan, including generation of forms, collection procedures, collection schedule and rapid appraisal of data (timely data monitoring).
Routinely analyzes implementation data and proposing performance targets to project leadership per USAID indicator to ensure progress is achieved.
Ensures correct compilation of data and database management.
Overall management and oversight of M&E agents. This includes conducting regular meetings with M&E Field Officers to improve M&E system and reinforcing capacities of M&E agents.
Participates in data analysis for quarterly and annual reports and drafting data analysis sections. Prepares presentations of data for specific audiences as needed
Conceives of, organizes and conducts research as needed on identified topics in support of program objectives.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Candidates for this position must have at least eight years designing, monitoring and evaluating programs.
Experience working with education programs is STRONGLY preferred.
Candidates must demonstrate success and experience in monitoring results and indicators of education quality, learning outcomes, access, retention and community engagement.
Proficiency in Hausa preferred.
The candidate must have a Master’s Degree in the social sciences or related field.
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