The position holder will:

1/Planning

• Support National Societies during micro-planning and review of micro-plans.

2/Lead the establishment and maintenance of monitoring systems, including:

• Ensure that monitoring plans are in place for all National Societies.
• Develop and maintain monitoring and reporting schedules for the program
• Provide technical leadership to ensure monitoring and reporting systems contribute to reliable data collection and timely analysis of program and project results.
• Provide technical leadership to facilitate the use of monitoring data for analysis and decision making.
• Support lead National Society to aggregate monitoring results and feedback from other implementing National Societies.
• Establish systems to remind and prompt National Societies to submit monitoring reports against schedules set for all projects and programmes
• Provide input to the development of quality standards and tools in the areas of monitoring and evaluation.

3/Support evaluations through technical leadership and management, including:

• Lead or manage program evaluation
• Ensure evaluations are done as prescribed and in accordance to IFRC evaluation Framework
• Lead and support lesson learn and reviews meetings for the program
• Document the lessons and agreed action points from above meeting and follow up to ensure they inform program improvement.
• Use qualitative data when applicable and advise on qualitative data collection methods and good practices (including interview skills, focus group facilitation, and survey design and response categories).
• Advice on sampling techniques (such as random, stratified, and purposive) and their applications and relevance for a selected evaluation or methodology.
• Provide quality control during the review and comment phase throughout the evaluation process.
• Support drafting of Management response to ensure learning from evaluations are actioned.
• Identify opportunities for participatory evaluation and integration with Community Engagement and Accountability to ensure evaluations consider community input

• Advise on the utility of various types of data collection and analysis tools using available analysis tools
• Lead data analysis and visualization of data collected to support program monitoring and donor reporting. This will include developing dashboards as needed

5/ Support effective communication of monitoring and evaluation information

• Ensure the collation of inclusion of appropriate program and project monitoring and evaluation information into external and internal reports
• Ensures best practices are captured and disseminated among NS
• Support the sharing of findings and lessons learned to improve programmatic and organizational learning.
• Provide constant communication and support to ensure NS are aware of their monitoring and evaluation obligations.
• Collate, write or manage, donor reporting and evaluation reports as necessary
• Conduct quality and technical review of donor reports, operation reports, and other reports to ensure all reports are of high quality.

6 / Support Grant and risk amangement

• Provide training on monitoring and evaluation for IFRC and National Society staff as requested.
• Identify and secure opportunities for National Societies to build capacity.
• Support in identify risk in SLL implementation and escaling to the relevant IFRC staff for action
• Support in tracking implementation and monitoring budgets

• University degree, or equivalent, in relevant disciplines (Monitoring and Evaluation, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or relevant quantitative fields )
• Relevant professional training or relevant experience in monitoring, performance-based management, planning or evaluation.
  

• Minimum of 2 years work experience in an international setting.
• Experience working in the developing countries
• Experience working in the Africa Region
• People Management experience