ACTED seeks to recruit an appraisal monitoring& evaluation assistant – Baidoa, Somalia

Department : Appraisal Monitoring & Evaluation Unit (AMEU)

Position : Appraisal Monitoring and Evaluation (AME) Assistant

Direct Hierarchy : AME Officer

Starting Date: March 2019

 

Background on ACTED :

ACTED is a French humanitarian NGO, founded in 1993, which supports vulnerable populations, affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. ACTED provides continued support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the sustainability of post-crisis interventions and engaging long-term challenges facing our target populations, in order to break the poverty cycle, foster development and reduce vulnerability to disasters. Their interventions seek to cover the multiple aspects of humanitarian and development crises through a multidisciplinary approach which is both global and local, and adapted to each context. Their 3,300 staff is committed in to responding to emergencies worldwide, to supporting recovery and rehabilitation, towards sustainable development.

ACTED is looking for professionally confident, self-motivated, experienced and committed team player to fill the below position in Baidoa Somalia.

 

Position Profile :

Under the direct supervision of the Appraisal Monitoring and Evaluation Officer – Baidoa, the AME Assistant will be responsible for supporting the AME Officer by providing implementation of AME TORs, supervision of enumerators, data collection, data entry, data analysis services fieldwork plan generation related to assessments contributing to the implementation of ACTED accountability framework at field level and other monitoring and evaluation activities conducted by AMEU in Baidoa.

 

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Assist the AME officer to prepare and implement monitoring and evaluations plans to measure project progress and impact indicators ;
• Assist in planning and conducting field level data collection and project monitoring using different techniques including household surveys, market data collection, focus group discussion, key informative interviews, etc ;
• Conduct training and supervision of enumerator teams, including checking questionnaires for reliability and consistency ;
• Support the implementation and evaluation of the feedback response mechanism ;
• Conduct quantitative data entry and recording of qualitative field notes and conducting quality checking and cleaning of data ;
• Support analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, writing reports to inform programme development and implementation ;
• Improve AME_Unit process and procedures including data collection skills, data quality, analysis and report writing ;
• Develop case studies, success stories and lessons learnt papers ;
• Assist Hargeisa Accountability officer in collecting, recording and reporting on beneficiary feedback from the field ;
• Perform any other task assigned by the manager.

 

Requirements :

• Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology, Community Development, WASH, Rural Livelihoods or related field ;
• Good experience of social research methods to conduct monitoring and evaluation for humanitarian and development initiatives/interventions. Knowledge and experience of participatory rural appraisal methods an asset ;
• Good analytical skills in order to interpret qualitative and quantitative data and discern useful recommendations for programme implementation and development ;
• Statistical analysis and IT skills, including use of SPSS and Excel for data analysis ;
• At least 2 years of work experience in a similar field; former experience with humanitarian organizations is an asset ;
• Good English communications skills (both oral and written) and report writing skills ;
• Strong team player of high integrity, pleasant personality, ability to work under least supervision and meet strict deadlines ;
• Excellent team management skills ;
• Strong people management and leadership skills ;
• Ability to work independently.