Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

General Functions

Under the overall supervision of the Program Manager and under the directives of the Program Officer- M&E and M&E Coordinator, the Monitoring and Evaluation officer (M&E-O) will directly report to the regional M&E Manager and will perform the following responsibilities:

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• 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.
• Attend and observe each bidding process prior to grant implementation to ensure transparency on behalf of all stakeholders. 
• Attend and observe Community Consensus Jirga’s (CCJ) and Project Oversight Committee (POC) meetings and document proceedings, decisions made and level of community participation.
• Compile comprehensive final project evaluations report based on information retrieved from the database and field.
• 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.
• 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 Manager and Supervisor in the collection of additional information from the field as required.
• Support the process of conducting the Baseline, End-line and monthly monitoring visits to large infrastructure grants.
• Conduct impact assessment activities as required for Non-infrastructure Livelihood projects.
• Conduct joint field monitoring visits with Independent Monitoring Unit (IMU) team as and when required.
• Follow reporting procedures by ensuring summary report submitted through online reporting tools to Google analysis spreadsheets. 

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelors Degree in Social Sciences or other equivalent degree.
• M&E Officer must have a minimum of three years’ experience with project Monitoring and evaluation. 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 monitor and evaluate projects with the interface between government and communities.

Languages          

Thorough knowledge of English, Pashtu and other local language is requirement