Summary
Date Posted: Monday, November 11 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Summary
The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (M&E) is responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring and evaluation systems to assess the performance and impact of the SWL. He/she will act as key advisor, helping the SWL project team and Ministry Management to learn from their experiences, improve the project and demonstrate its impact.

Duties and Responsibilities
• Develop and implement a robust monitoring and evaluation system that will ensure tracking of project results at different levels (outputs, outcomes and impact);
• Develop/Adopt an integrated database of all projects activities and ensure accountability through regular data updates, data integrity and working in collaboration with the SWL IT Team;
• Work with SWL project officers to ensure the timely collection of relevant and appropriate data needed for an effective monitoring and evaluation system;
• Review existing data collection tools for the current project and make relevant suggestions;
• Incorporate field and technical team feedback to ensure the continuous improvement of data management systems within SWL-MIS;
• Maintain and update the overall project indicator tracker based on submissions from the project officers.
• Develop and revise existing M&E plans for all GEWEL 2 project activities and ensure the same is followed up during implementation,
• Carry out data quality assessments, regularly monitoring on agreed indicators to guide decision making
• Provide alert to the respective SWL project officers on corrective actions required to avoid delays in implementation, including flagging operational issues and risks requiring timely actions;
• Collate/prepare regional reports related to internal reporting such as the quarterly and annual reports,
• Coordinate with the World Bank M&E counterpart and GEWEL task team;
• Ensure that the project office learns from all final evaluations of completed projects activities for decision making and improvement of project designs;
• Lead and/or coordinate all project assessments, evaluations and performance evaluation tasks including planning and reporting on the same;
• Assist in the development of TOR for external surveys and consultant recruitments/ selection;
• Coordinate the review of all survey reports prepared to ensure quality and accurate reporting.
• Provide relevant evidence for learning from projects;
• Share learning and provide constructive comments to colleagues in order to ensure project quality,
• Ensure Sex, Age, Disability Disaggregated Data (SADD). Accountability and Gender standards are consistently adhered in project delivery;
• Build capacity of staff through training to ensure adoption of new data monitoring tools and quality of data collected;
• Keep abreast of new approaches and tools on M&E, and provide training to SWL staff as requested.
• Enable staff to monitor and evaluate their own efforts, gather relevant data and produce required progress reports.

Qualification, Experience and Key Attributes:
• Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Monitoring & Evaluation, Demography, Population Studies;
• At least 5 years’ experience in a position of monitoring and evaluation of social programs, with strong preference for experience on social protection and education programs;
• At least 3 years of experience working on monitoring and evaluation of World Bank funded projects;
• Demonstrated experience in data processing and management of large scale surveys;
• Demonstrated experience of statistical packages and/ or data analysis software (e.g. SPSS, Excel, STATA) and advanced computer skills (word-processing, spreadsheets, and databases) are a must;
• Strong experience in conducting research studies including leading evaluation from design and formulation to implementation, analysis and presentation of results and recommendations; Good oral and written communication skills in English;
• Must be result focused and be able to work under pressure and tight deadlines;
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well within a multi-cultural team environment;
• Strong analytical skills,
• Experience in project implementation on large scale national projects of not less than 50 districts.
• Experience in project implementation using a Management Information System;

REPORTING LINE:
The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will be reporting to the Project Manager
Duration
The assignment is expected to last for an initial period of two years, with the possibility of renewal based on performance and project needs.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Expressions of interest must be delivered in hard copy to the address on or before 22 November 2024 17:00 hours to the address below.
• The Permanent Secretary- Administration
• Ministry of Education
• 89 Corner of Chimanga & Mogadishu Roads
• P.O. Box 50093,
• LUSAKA-ZAMBIA

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