Reporting to the Monitoring and Evaluation Director and working closely with headquarters and country office staff, the Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator will form an integral part of our headquarters staff. This position will ensure the organization’s monitoring and evaluation protocols and tools are maintained at a professional level and are consistent with the expectations of our funders. He/she supports the organization's day-to-day monitoring and evaluation efforts and management of the organization’s programs and projects by supporting the deployment and maintenance of robust and sound M&E systems, databases and tools and ensuring they are functioning appropriately. Support the conduct of research and best practice in M&E field and contribute to learning activities within the organization.
Specific responsibilities:
- Manage the Bi-weekly Survey Cycle
- Write the All Country Bi-weekly Survey Reports
- Develop Bi-weekly Focus Learning Briefs (Settling into Site, Integration, Language)
- Support the design, implementation, and refining of tools to collect data on all aspects of the Volunteer and Alumni experience, utilizing and coordinating outside consultants as needed
- Support data collection, cleaning, and analysis processes in excel spreadsheet across country offices, and the implementation of a new database system to consolidate impact data
- Maintain database and manage the storage of all CorpsAfrica data, ensuring the retrieval of information when needed
- Support the development of a template for periodic impact reports and populate the template for an Annual Impact Report
- Support data collection and analysis using SurveyCTO for CorpsAfrica’s monitoring and evaluation of data collection systems.
- Lead the process of designing, piloting and validating quantitative and qualitative evaluation
- Tools
- Support the conduct of research regarding best practices used by similar organizations to collect, analyse and report impact of volunteerism, community-led development and development in rural communities across Africa
- Support Country office M&E Officers in the appropriate collection and collation of data
- Support the conduct of data quality assessment, data validation and supervision of country offices
- Support the development of briefing papers on CorpsAfrica’s monitoring and evaluation practices for sharing knowledge across the organization and within the field of international development and monitoring and evaluation
- Assist with day-to-day monitoring and evaluation activities and attend the weekly M&E meeting.
- Perform additional tasks as needed or assigned