Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Keeping Girls in School (KGS) Initiative is a component under the Girls' Education and Women's Empowerment and Livelihood (GEWEL) Project which is currently being implemented by the Government of Zambia with support from the World Bank. The Project which is being implemented in three Ministries namely the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), Ministry of Gender (MOG) and Ministry of General Education (MOGE) has three components. The first component is the Supporting Women's Livelihoods initiative, while the second component supports the keeping Girls in School Initiative, and the third component supports institutional strengthening and system building in MOG and MCDSS for women's empowerment and social protection.
PROJECT BACKGROUND
The goal of the Girls' Education and Women's Empowerment and Livelihood (GEWEL) Project is to increase access to livelihood support for extremely poor rural women and access to secondary education for disadvantaged adolescent girls in extremely poor households in selected districts. The objective of KGS is to help adolescent girls in extremely poor households to access secondary education, by providing support to cover secondary school fees for adolescent girls in extremely poor households that are benefitting from the government's existing Social Cash Transfer.
KGS was designed in response to the fact that very few adolescent girls in rural areas are enrolled in school and increase in school dropout due to:
(i) the inability of the poorest families to bear the costs (or opportunity costs) of educating girls and
(ii)the lack of options available to girls to develop the skills needed to generate sufficient income to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. KGS will therefore increase the opportunities available to these girls to improve their living standards in the long run by ensuring that they acquire the needed education.
The Ministry of General Education is inviting applications from interested persons who meet the minimum requirements to fill the following positions. Kindly note that those who responded to our earlier advertisement are advised to apply again.
MONITORING AND EVALUATION SPECIALIST (1)
Location - Lusaka Reports to- Project Coordinator .

Duties and Responsibilities
• Developing and implementing 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 KGSIT Team;
• Work with KGS programmes officer to ensure the timely collection of relevant and appropriate data needed for an effective monitoring and evaluation system;
• Review existing data collection tools for current project and make relevant suggestions:
• Incorporate field and technical team feedback to ensure the continuous improvement of data management systems within KGS-MIS;
• Maintain an update of the overall project indicator tracker based on submissions from the programme Officers;
• Develop M&E plans for all project activities and ensure the same is followed up during Implementation;
• Carry out data quality assessment, regularly monitoring on agreed indicators to guide decision making;
• Provide alert to the respective KGS programme Officers on corrective actions required to avoid delays in implementation, including flagging operational issues and risks requiring timely action;
• Collate/prepare regional reports related to internal reporting such as the quarterly and annual reported;
• Ensure that project office learns from all final evaluates 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 survey 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 programme quality:
• Ensure Sex, Age, Disability Disaggregated Data (SADD), Accountability and Gender Standards are consistently adhered in programme delivery:
• Build capacity of staff through training to ensure adoption of new data monitoring tools and quality of data collection;
• 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.

Job Skills: Not Specified

Qualifications, Experience and Key Attributes
• Masters or Bachelor Degree in statistics, Economics, Monitoring & Evaluation, Demography, Population Studies
• 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, Epi Info, SMART, STATO1) and advanced computer skills (word processing, spreadsheets, and database) are a must;
• Strong experience in conducting research studies including the entire evaluation cycle, from design and formulation to implementation, analysis and presentation of results and recommendations;
• Strong writing and communication skills including ability to prepare quality, focused reports
• 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 within a multicultural team environment;
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience in working on similar projects will be an added advantage.

Job Education Requirements: Masters or Bachelor Degree in statistics

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Interested candidates who meet the minimum qualifications should apply through the address below not later than 14th January, 2021.
The Permanent Secretary-A .
Ministry of General Education 89 corner of Chimanga & Mogadishu Road.
P.O.Box 50093 .
LUSAKA

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