Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Background
Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA) through the World Food Program has made resources available to iDE Zambia for implementation of a One Year Farmer Service Centres program in selected districts of Central, Lusaka and Copperbelt Provinces. FtMA is a consortium of six organizations (World Food Programme, AGRA, Bayer, Rabo Bank, Syngenta, and Yara), with a shared mission of making markets work better for smallholder farmers (SHFs). FtMA is envisioned to be an inclusive, open platform that seeks to leverage existing structures to catalyse solutions and coordinate partners across the agriculture and food system using the Farmer Service Centre (FSC) model.
This (FSC) program will continue to build on the investments already made by the Alliance Members and FtMA in Zambia. The FSC approach will directly engage the private sector to better support last mile services to smallholder farmers thus increasing their access to market linkages, inputs, finance and improved technologies, knowledge of relevant agri-technologies and cultivation techniques, such as conservation farming, and will improve our farmers’ produce quality and standards with farmer data capture and value add services through digitization.
FtMA’s Planned Results
Impact: Improved livelihoods and resilience of rural smallholder farmers in Zambia and enhanced agribusiness efficiencies
Impact Indicators:
• Increase in farmers’ average household-level income
• Increase commercial viability of Farmer Service Centres
Outcome:
Smallholder farmers increase their uptake in quality services to increase productivity, resulting in an increase in value of their outputs being marketed through the Farmer Service Centre.
Interventions
• Farmer Service Centre (FSC) identification and network building.
• Market linkages and aggregation via the Farmer Service Centre Model
• Farmer mobilization/on boarding and service provision through FSC model
• Data management and Digital solutions
iDE Zambia is inviting applications from qualifying candidates for the following positions.

Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Officer
Location: – -Kabwe

Key Responsibilities:
The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer will be responsible for the design, coordination and implementation of the monitoring and evaluation, research, and learning framework of the FtMA Project. He/she will develop a systematic monitoring framework to improve the qualitative and quantitative evidence gathered by the Project. He/she will also provide technical assistance to the implementing projects, particularly in relation to monitoring, reporting and use of Monitoring feedback.

Education:
• First university degree in agriculture, Agriculture economics, statistics, demographics, or related field.
• Added advanced certificate in M&E preferred.

• Experience, skills and attributes required
• Minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in a position responsible for project management or implementing M&E activities of smallholder agriculture.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages.
• Experience in designing and managing beneficiary monitoring and database systems.
• Experience in planning and performance measurement, including indicator tracking, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans.
• Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, and impact) and data collection and analysis methodologies.
• Experience in planning and managing surveys.
• Experience in developing and refining electronic data collection tools.
• Experience with data quality assessments and supervision.
• Ability to facilitate and serve as project liaison for externally-managed evaluations.
• Languages: Excellent written and spoken command of English. Knowledge of Local language in FTMA project areas preferred.

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Job application procedure
Application should be in e-mail with the CV as the only attachment.
• Clearly reference the project and position you are applying for.
• Only applicants with the necessary experience and qualifications should respond to this advert.
• Female candidates are encouraged to apply
• Applications should be mailed to zambiarecruitment@ideglobal.org by 24th June 2022.

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