Summary
Date Posted: Friday, January 17 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Responsibilities/ Accountabilities of Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist Includes the Following:
I. Develop and implement a robust monitoring and evaluation system that will ensure tracking of project results at different levels (outputs, outcomes and impact).
II. Develop/Adopt an integrated database of all projects activities and ensure accountability through regular data updates, data integrity and working in collaboration with the IT Team.
III. Work with the project coordinator to ensure the timely collection of relevant and appropriate data needed for an effective monitoring and evaluation system.
IV. Review existing data collection tools for the current project and make relevant suggestions.
V. Incorporate field and technical team feedback to ensure the continuous improvement of data management systems within Gender-MIS.
VI. Maintain and update the overall project indicator tracker based on submissions from the program officers
VII. Develop M&E plans for all project activities and ensure the same is followed up during implementation;
VIII. Carry out data quality assessments, regularly monitoring on agreed indicators to guide decision making
IX. Provide alert to the respective KGS program officers on corrective actions required to avoid delays in implementation, including flagging operational issues and risks requiring timely actions.
X. Collate prepare regional reports related to internal reporting such as the quarterly and annual reports
XI. Ensure that the project office learns from all final evaluations of completed projects activities for decision making and improvement of project designs.
XII. Lead and/or coordinate all project assessments, evaluations and performance evaluation tasks including planning and reporting on the same.
XIII. Assist in the development of TOR for external surveys and consultant recruitments/ selection
XIV. Coordinate the review of all survey reports prepared to ensure quality and accurate reporting.
XV. Provide relevant evidence for learning from projects
XVI. Share learning and provide constructive comments to colleagues in order to ensure programme quality
XVII. Ensure Sex, Age, Disability Disaggregated Data (SADD), Accountability and Gender standards are consistently adhered in programme delivery
XVIII. Build capacity of staff through training to ensure adoption of new data monitoring tools and quality of data collected.
XIX. Keep abreast of new approaches and tools on M&E, and provide training to KGS 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:
I. Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Economics, Monitoring & Evaluation, Demography, Population Studies;
II. Demonstrated experience in data processing and management of large-scale surveys;
III. Demonstrated experience of statistical packages and/ or data analysis software (e.g. SPSS, Excel, Epi Info, SMART, STAT 01) and advanced computer skills (word- processing, spread sheets, and databases) are a must;
IV. At least 2 years’ direct experience in a position of monitoring and evaluation of World Bank projects;
V. Strong experience in conducting research studies including the entire evaluation cycle, from design and formulation to implementation, analysis and presentation of results and recommendations;
VI. Good oral and written communication skills in English;
VII. Must be result focused and be able to work under pressure and tight deadlines;
VIII. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well within a multi-cultural team environment;
IX. Strong analytical skills;

Duration of employment: 2 years
Commencement of the Service: After Contract Signing
Cabinet Office- Gender Division under The Girls’ Education and Women’s Empowerment and Livelihood for Human Capital (GEWEL 2) Project now invites eligible “Consultants” to indicate their interest in providing the Services.
Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services.
The shortlisting criteria are: Educational qualification, experience (general & specific) and knowledge in procurement.
A Consultant will be selected through the ‘Open Competitive Selection of Individual Consultants’ method in accordance with World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016, Revised September 2023 (“Procurement Regulations”).
The Procurement Regulations can be viewed at the World Bank’s external website:https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/178331533065871195- 0290022020/original/ProcurementRegulations.pdf
The attention of interested Consultants is drawn in particular to:(i) Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the Procurement Regulations setting forth the World Bank’s policy on Conflict of Interest, and
(ii) Section III, paragraphs, 3.21-3.24 of the Procurement Regulations setting forth the World Bank’s policy on Eligibility, including the specific pre-requisite conditions to be met for the eligibility, on exceptional basis, of Government officials and civil servants of the Borrower’s country under consulting contracts in the Borrower’s country.
Individuals who are currently working as procurement consultants on another World Bank- financed project may also compete in this selection process, but if they are selected they will be required before signing the proposed contract to provide documentary evidence of having satisfactorily complied with their existing contract’s requirements with respect to early termination of the contract by the consultant, including advance notice period, to avoid disruption in implementation of that project.
Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours between. 08:00 to 17:00 hours.


Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

• Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form (hard copy) in the Tender Box to the address below by 17:00 hours Zambia Standard Time on 31st January, 2025.
• Ketty K. Musonda
• Head Procurement and Supplies Unit
• Cabinet Office
• Office of the President
• Independence Avenue
• P.O Box 30208
• Lusaka
• Tel: Tel:+260-211-256674/0977 780 864/0974019227
• E-mail: ketty.kangamba@cabinet.gov.zm / dorothy.katongo@cabinet.gov.zm / john.malioti@cabinet.gov.zm 

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