M & E Officer - WFP at Save the Children Nigeria

Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children's lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfill their potential. We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

We have over two million supporters worldwide and raised 1.9 billion dollars last year to reach more children than ever before, through programmes in health, nutrition, education, protection and child rights, also in times of humanitarian crises.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: M & E Officer - WFP

Location: Borno, Nigeria

Role Purpose

• The Emergency M&E officer will provide support to community organization, implementing partners and Plan program staff to systematically measure progress in the implementation of Plans emergency response.
• She/he will provide a framework through which these measurements (M&E data) are fed back to those involved in the running of the various component of the emergency response program and ensure that the information can support and guide the decisions of the management team to improve the quality and impact the program operations.

Key Area of Accountability
Key Responsibilities for M&E:

• Liaise with the MEAL Coordinator for the development and implementation of an M&E Plan for the WFP BSFP
• Develop data capture tools for beneficiary identification and registration and BSF distribution register
• Provide community organizations, implementing partners and save the Children staff with clear and simple instructional sheets for each data collection tool and trained/provide regular coaching to relevant staffs and other stakeholders on data quality and the use of the data collection tools.
• In consultation with nutrition sector specialists, design and develop program database and regularly update database
• Facilitate the conduct of post distribution monitoring for the BSFP project
• Conduct regular field visits to track progress against indicators and put in place systems for routine data quality checks and validations
• Lead the coordination of field data collection and the flow of reports from the field to the management team and provide regular feedbacks to field workers and key stakeholders of progress in program implementations.
• Actively participate in M&E meetings with key stakeholders
• Prepare monthly/quarterly progress reports and statistics as well as mid-/final reports to stakeholders
• Advise and put in place a system for promoting transparency and accountability of plan for stakeholders.
• Perform other tasks as required by the MEAL coordinator

Skills & Experience
Essential:

• 3-5 years’ experience in M&E positions and/or program experience in field data collection in emergencies
• Detailed knowledge of M&E frameworks and M&E Plans, systems and indicator reference sheets
• Experience maintaining programmatic databases
• Good understand of routine data quality checks/validation
• Experience in survey and qualitative interviewing, including supervising field data collection teams and writing research case studies
• Advance knowledge Microsoft Office Suite, especially MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Desirable:

• Have experience and/or knowledge about working with children on research issues and is aware of the local legal and child protection systems.
• Experience of working in a post conflict environment/refugee/IDP situation
• Project management experience
• Ability to work as part of a team, Flexibility, adaptability, and patience
• Ability to work under pressure often to strict deadlines,
• Ability to assess problems and recommend solutions

Application Closing Date
22nd February, 2017.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online