Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant

Job Summary

The Assistant will support the M&E officer in managing day-to-day M&E tasks arising in the Field Office and providing technical support to field teams to ensure effective project implementation. Responsibilities: Receive and maintain clean data source documents from field staff

Duties And Responsibilities

The M and E Assistant Reports to the MEAL Officer and gives technical support and strategic direction in the following areas________________________________________

Develop, implement, and assess monitoring frameworks for Caritas Mutare a projects, as well as for funding proposals
• Develop the overall framework for project M&E systems in collaboration with donor and Project Manager, including requirements, reporting, baseline, and evaluation surveys; develop and monitor project management plan to systematically document performance
• Facilitate design of “SMART” objectives, logic models, monitoring frameworks, and evaluation plans during annual work-planning process
• Contribute to the development of annual, quarterly and weekly work plans to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities
• Maintain existing indicator tracking tools; develop additional databases and tracking tools as needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of project interventions
• Ensure quality and timely submission of country quarterly reports; manage preparation of additional reports for Donors and government stakeholders as may be required.
• Conduct field visits for data validation and to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets; coordinate data collection at project sites to monitor program development and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data; capture and document lessons learned; and champion the scaling up best practices
• Provide technical leadership and support to project and partner staff in planning and implementing M&E systems and activities, data-based program decision-making, and results reporting; provide training as needed
• Support the development, design, and writing of proposals and concept notes for related programming information management and reporting
• Create and integrate graphics using Photovoice principles in reports and information products to help visualize data in a meaningful way
• Cultivate and strengthen relationships with local partner organization, donors, private sectors partners, and national authorities
• Perform assigned related task by the project management.

Qualifications And Experience

At least 2 years' experience working conducting Monitoring and Evaluation. Good MS Excel, SPSS, skills is a must. Ability to use Mobile data collection survey platforms. Critical and responsive to gender, ethnicity, disability, and other social issues.

Degree or Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, or any other related qualification

Proficient digital literacy e.g., MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Kobo tools, and Outlook.

Good personal relationship skills.