Job Description
Job Overview / Summary
- The purpose of the RH M&E Officer position is to coordinate the collection, compilation, consolidation, and analysis of data to track programs / projects activities, monitor progress and support impact measurement.
- S / he will also conduct development research, engage in reflective practice, and generate lessons from projects / program and prepare M&E plans for the Reproductive Health (RH) sector.
- S / he is responsible for establishing and ensuring better field-level data management systems for the core program s / he is assigned to and coordinates the proper and timely evaluation of project objectives / impact.
- S / he will contribute to the existing client response mechanisms and ensure program staff participation in M&E activities.
- The position holder will closely work with sector manager(s), front line staff, and community / facility volunteers.
- S / he also will work closely with the M&E unit on technical matters and reports to the M&E Manager and the Reproductive Health manager(s).
Major Responsibilities
Program / project design and learning (20% of time):
- Participate in program/ project design especially in developing RH logframes and also contribute learning from previous projects
- Responsible for the development and continuously update RH project M&E, and impact measurement tools and systems on timely fashion.
- Support to develop and make sure all the projects in the RH has tested monitoring tools that capture both program activity and indicators progresses;
- Take part in diagnostic studies, evaluations and surveys;
- Responsible for organizing periodical ongoing RH level data review, reflective practice, evaluation and progress monitoring events by involving communities and local partners;
- Responsible for organizing RH panel monitoring and / or similar M&E events to ensure accountability to the target community, with relevant stakeholders including communities and ensure their dissemination to concerned parties;
- With support from the M&E Manager, RH manager(s) and coordinator, establish and maintain project level information management system;
- Contribute to designing RH strategy to collect field level information required by IRC, donors and / or stakeholders;
- Responsible for proactively ensuring networking and sharing of lessons from the RH core program with strategic partners and other stakeholder including government;
- Responsible for coordinating synergy and cross-learning among different projects;
- Responsible for cross fertilizing learning among projects by regularly producing (compiling) summary monitoring reports and sharing to RH staff and partners.