Monitoring & Evaluation Head of Department at Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger | ACF-International works to save lives by combating hunger and diseases that threaten the lives of vulnerable communities, through nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, health and advocacy.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Monitoring & Evaluation Head of Department
Job Location: Abuja

Description

• We are looking for a highly skilled, creative M&E HOD, responsible for designing, implementing, and managing a monitoring and evaluations system for projects that are being implemented in the region.

About the Program

• Action Against Hunger has been operational in Nigeria since 2010 responding to both chronic and acute needs through a multi-sector strategy where nutrition, Food Security and Livelihoods and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene activities are integrated to have a meaningful impact on people’s resilience.
• The main objectives of the country program are 1/ to continue building on Action Against Hunger’s reputation for nutritional expertise to deliver integrated nutrition, WASH and FSL assistance in the high caseload Northern Nigeria States and build evidence from out pilot projects to influence policy makers to find long lasting solution to under nutrition and hunger and 2/ responding to the dire humanitarian situation created by the devastating conflict on-going in the North East while applying, where possible, attempts to find durable solutions in line with the New ways of Working and Humanitarian Development Nexus.
• With a central office in Abuja and 3 main field office across the North, Action Against Hunger runs intervention in 3 States of Northern Nigeria including two States affected by the on-going conflict. We have a country team of around 550 staff (45 international) and a budget for 2018 projected at 50 M US$. Our main donors and partners in Nigeria include USAID/OFDA&FFP, DFID, ECHO, EU EDF, AFD, UNICEF, SIDA, SDC and GAC.

You'll contribute to ending world hunger by:

• Increasing the programs’ quality and impact through the implementation of an efficient monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning system adapted to the context of the mission, in conformity with Action Against Hunger and international standards and national policies.

Key Activities
Establish, train and lead M&E setup at country level:

• Develop a M&E strategy and review organogram to reflect functional M&E capacity in line with Action Against Hunger country strategic vision.
• Recruitment, train and manage qualified staff to carry out regular M&E functions.
• Formal and on the job training for M&E staff.
• Provide support to the review and development of M&E systems and tools, in collaboration with senior technical management and technical advisor teams of Action Against Hunger and the interagency consortium program M&E Coordinator.
• Build specific capacity of program teams to carry out integrated rapid needs assessments as part of a larger emergency response capacity.
• Advise and update the Technical and Field Coordinators on all aspects of M&E regularly.
• Support the quality, timeliness and dissemination of M&E outputs internally and externally.
• Ensure that lessons in planning, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and impact assessment are documented, shared and considered in the design of new projects and technical plans and are discussed during periodic program reviews and ultimately fed into current work and future program development.
• Supervise the development of a central information management system platform for Action Against Hunger, which will consolidate data and allow for timely reporting of progress towards key current contract + Action Against Hunger standard program indicators, and feed into the interagency consortium information system.
• Contribute to the appraisals of M&E staff as required by Action Against Hunger guidelines and ensure proper adequate training is carried out in view of career development and Mission Training Plans.

Ensure proper and timely implementation of M&E activities:

• Build specific capacity of program teams to carry out integrated rapid needs assessments as part of a larger emergency response capacity.
• Develop quality assurance checklists for M&E teams in collaboration with TECH HOD’s for development grants.
• Support the inclusion of M&E activities in new project proposals and their implementation country level, in collaboration with the senior management country team.
• Establish and monitor accountability mechanisms in line with HAP across the PCM.

Support program monitoring and reporting:

• Provide technical input in the development of program monitoring and reporting plans.
• Provide trainings to program teams on program activity monitoring and reporting.
• Assist programs in defining sampling and assessment methodologies.
• Assist programs on logical framework development.
• Assist program teams on technical interviews for data analysts.
• Assist program teams in development of project specific databases.
• Advise and update the Technical and Field Coordinators on all aspects of M&E regularly.

Document good practice from planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities:

• Document lessons learned and best practices, produce case studies and human-interest stories through knowledge capitalization workshops, production of learning documents and other means.
• Organize learning, knowledge sharing and capitalization workshops and ensure knowledge is used in future program design.
• Establish and monitor accountability mechanisms in line with HAP across the PCM.
• Undertake internal project evaluations, support the development of Terms of Reference. (TORs) and inception reports for external evaluations and manage evaluation consultants
• Support the quality, timeliness and dissemination of M&E outputs internally and externally.
• Ensure that lessons in planning, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and impact assessment are documented, shared and considered in the design of new projects and technical plans and are discussed during periodic program reviews and ultimately fed into current work and future program development.

Represent Action Against Hunger externally in relevant forums and working groups:

• Represent Action Against Hunger externally in issues related to monitoring, evaluation, accountability and reporting (consortia, alliances and clusters).
• Undertake any monitoring and reporting tasks related to government guidelines and instructions.

Requirements
About you:

• Bachelor of Arts or Science/Bac+4 (or higher) in related International Relations/Affairs, Humanitarian Affairs, International Development, Public Health, Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Demographics or related field.
• Minimum 3 years work experience in a similar role, with minimum 1 year humanitarian experience.
• Experience in two or more country contexts preferred.
• Excellent communication, writing and analytical skills.
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills.
• Excellent team management, budget management and representation competencies.
• Experience in humanitarian M&E or PQA.
• Experience in designing and leading internal and external evaluation.
• Experience designing and leading capacity building and training for national teams.
• Proven ability to translate evaluated results into learning strategies.
• Skills on statistical and other software (SPSS, SPHINX, STATA, EPI Info, ENA for SMART, GIS, etc.)
• Familiarity with Management Information Systems (Databases) and GIS.
• Experience in multi-sector and participatory assessments and data collection tools.
• Familiarity with Action Against Hunger and acceptance of Action Against Hunger’s principles.
• You are fluent in written & spoken English.
• You have the ability to explain complex concepts in straight-forward language.
• You are committed to gender equity and equality.
• You have a genuine interest in & commitment to the principles of Action Against Hunger.
• Your work style builds confidence with others, and you believe that every problem has a solution. It is the way we approach the problem that makes the difference.
• You are able to remain calm under pressure and can easily adapt to changing circumstances
• You are ready and willing to integrate into hard working and fun team that believes in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Our Core values
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate Action Against Hunger-USA-USA’s five core competencies:

• Respect - we work with compassion and dedication, treating everyone the same way we expect them to treat us.
• Integrity -: we believe that being honest and fair is integral to every aspect of our work; conducting our work with a spirit of sincerity, truthfulness and transparency is imperative.
• Creativity - we encourage new ideas, embrace innovative solutions, and create opportunities for meaningful and exciting ways to do our jobs and provide solutions to address the needs of the populations we serve.
• Excellence - we strive to provide services that meet, and even exceed, the expectations of our stakeholders (populations in need, staff, communities and donors).
• Empowerment - we are committed to fostering an environment in which our staff, partners and communities where we work have the space to grow, develop and feel confident about participating.

Benefits
Action Against Hunger-USA values its employees and offers a comprehensive remuneration and benefits package. These include but are not limited to:

• Health Insurance
• R&R Breaks
• Paid annual leave (vacation)
• Training opportunities