Vacancy title:
M&E Fellow

Jobs at:
Frontiers

Deadline of this Job:
28th October 2018

Duty Station:
Kigali, Rwanda

Summary
Date Posted: 24th October 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:

About FRONTIERS

When people are in a challenging but supportive environment, say climbing a mountain, these situations demand greater teamwork, leadership, communication, and trust to succeed.
Frontiers is an Outdoor Leadership and Enterprise Development social enterprise based in Kigali Rwanda and with experience in the Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. It was officially registered in Rwanda in 2009, but its directors have been involved in the industry in the region since 1999.

Though an Outdoor based training firm, Frontiers is putting focus on moving experiential education from the outdoors to the classroom, and experimenting it on Business, ICT and Empowerment training mainly through our clients.
Our Approach to long life learning and life skills development has been embraced especially in HUGUKA DUKORE AKAZI KANOZE, and Women and Community empowerment programs that we support in the region.

Project Description

Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze Project is a USAID Funded project that, over the course of five years from 2016 to 2021, will provide 40, 000 vulnerable youth-34, 000 new youth and 6, 000 Akazi Kanoze alumni-with employability skills by scaling up proven successful Akazi Kanoze interventions across at least 23 of 30 districts countrywide. The implementation of the Project is led by Education Development Center (EDC) in collaboration with three consortium members Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Connexus and Souktel) and 22 other local implementing partners that include FRONTIERS. Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze will use a series of inclusive innovations that will invite more youth to participate in Rwanda’s historic transformation, particularly women, youth with disabilities and other marginalized youth. Recognizing the diversity of youth backgrounds and goals, Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze will offer multiple program pathways including,

• employment preparation;
• individual and cooperative youth microenterprise start-up;
• business development for existing microenterprises; and
• continuation onto additional formal Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) training. This fiscal year The frontiers is implementing the Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze Project providing employability skills as well as employment and self-employment accompaniment services to 300 youth in GASABO and GASTIBO district.
  

SUMMARY

FRONTIERS ADVENTURES is seeking an M&E Fellow to support the M&E work of Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze Project.

The M&E Fellow will be responsible for supporting both the M&E Coordinator and Program Coordinator to ensure accurate and comprehensive data collection and management as well as reporting of results and activities accomplished under the project.

The M&E Fellow will be technically supervised by FRONTIERS M&E Coordinator.

Duration

The M&E Fellowship will be for nine (9) months with possibilities of extending to 12 months.

Essential functions include

• Support both qualitative and quantitative data collection processes following the project’s reporting schedule;
  
• Support the provision of data quality control/assurance and best practices on data collected and use;
  
• Support the identification, documentation, and dissemination of lessons learned and success stories;
  
• Provide needed database update
  
• Provide feedback on the use of M&E tools/systems
  
• Support the preparation of narrative and data reports and their timely submission;
  
• Any other activity as assigned by Supervisor
  

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, statistics, evaluation, mathematics (with major in statistics), information technology applied to management, management or any related social sciences;
  
• Strong computer skills and strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs;
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
  
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail;
  
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
  
• Fluent in Kinyarwanda and English
  
• Have high teamwork skills and willingness to learn
  

An ideal candidate should:

• Have graduated in less than three (3) years;
  
• Have experience as volunteer
  
• Be motivated to be placed in any organization or area in Rwanda
  
• Be a resident of the area of operations of FRONTIERS)
  

Benefits

• FRONTIERS will offer a monthly stipend for food, transport, and communication throughout the period of the fellowship;
  
• The M&E Fellow will benefit from different trainings organized by the project including, but not limited to, M&E, Work Ready Now! (WRN!) and Advanced entrepreneurship;
  
• The M&E Fellow will be given opportunities to use their knowledge, talents and experiences to learn more about development interventions’ M&E functions and contribute to lives impacting work;
  
• FRONTIERS will provide workstation, access to internet and permission to use its facilities within the limits of its internal policies and procedures;
  
• At the end of the fellowship EDC and FRONTIERS will issue certificate and recommendation for future employment;