Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

General Functions

Under the overall guidance of the Programme Manager and under the direct supervision of the Head of Monitoring and Evaluation the M&E Officer is responsible for ensuring that a proper monitoring and evaluation system is in place and will ensure smooth implementation of the Program. Based on the M&E reports collected through different means, the M&E Officer should provide some initial recommendations to Senior Program Staff on how program implementation could be improved. M&E results should be shared with Program Staff on a constructive and orderly manner to ensure improvement of the program implementation.

 Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Attend and observe Community meetings and Project Oversight Committee (POC) meetings and document proceedings, decisions made and level of community participation.
• Draft project specific M&E plans to be included in grant development and also coordinate with Program field staff to obtain field data pertinent to each indicator outlined in the project M&E plans at the post completion visit to the project site.
• Conduct regular visits to project sites to carry out process monitoring as well as gather feedback from the beneficiary community about the implemented projects and submit a detail report about the activities.
• Identify and document success stories and case studies on extraordinary aspects of the project.
• Carry out Broad Based Evaluation Studies on particular assigned grants related topics inline with the decisions made.
• Support the M&E Head inIslamabad in the collection of additional information from the field as required
• Attend and observe each bidding process prior to grant implementation to ensure transparency on behalf of all stakeholders. 
• Compile comprehensive final project evaluations report based on information retrieved from the database and field.

  Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences or other equivalent degree.
• M&E Officer must have a minimum of three years experience with project Monitoring and evaluation, Project development and proposal writing, and implementation of development-type projects.  He should have experience in community participation and consultative-type projects. The M &E Officer must have the capacity to understand and analyze national, regional, and local politics, and the creativity and analytical capacity to design and implement grants with the interface between government and communities.
• Local candidates of Southern Punjab Region will be preferred.
  

Languages

Thorough knowledge of spoken and written English required; working knowledge of the languages spoken in the region will be an advantage.