Monitoring & Evaluation Officers at the American University of Nigeria (AUN)

The American University of Nigeria was founded in response to the need for a world-class university in sub-Saharan Africa. The University’s mission is to provide quality education to Nigeria and Africa’s future leaders in order to equip them with the skills needed to solve development issues on the continent, and give them the knowledge needed to create solutions that will benefit their community, their country and, ultimately, the world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Location: Mubi, Adamawa
Department:  Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning.
Employment Status: Full Time (Project)
Report to (Supervisor): M&E Specialist
Supervises: Nil

Position Background

• The M&E Officer will be responsible for evaluating the results of training interventions; initialize, manage and implement the M&E system for training; ensure all evaluation instruments / methodologies are correctly administered to obtain quality data, produce written evaluation reports providing clear and concise information on training results in a format and style that is easily and readily available for use.

Primary Responsibilities

• Plan and implement the MEL activities.
• Ensure high-quality data are available when needed for programmatic decision-making.
• Manage the information-gathering process for results and performance reports.
• Support in Adapting and maintain a high-quality database for the project.
• Contribute to work plans, budgets and technical reports, and deliverables.
• Monitor project performance against targets and prepare periodic reports on M&E activities.
• Participate in project assessments, evaluations, design, and development of survey protocols.
• Support implementation of program evaluations, baseline, and end-line assessments.
• Promote learning and assist program teams in documenting and implementing lessons.
• Support the elaboration of success stories and case studies based on the intended audience.
• Any other task as may be assigned.

Position Requirements

• Degree in Statistics, Demography, Mathematics, or any other relevant discipline.
• Experience in the use of some basic M&E statistical tools, MS Windows, and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
• Experience in conducting assessments, surveys, data management, and analysis.
• Fluency in spoken and written English is highly desired.
• Must have at least 2-3 years of general and INGO M&E experience
• Good knowledge of Spoken Local language (Hausa)-desired.

Description of Benefits

• Salary and benefits are commensurate with experience and job classification as per AIDIs - AUN salary scale.

Application Closing Date
22nd October, 2021.