Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Ref No: IITA-HR-NRS2023-016
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Recruitment Type: National (2-year renewable contract)

Duties

• Provide support to the Institutional Scaling and Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Impact Assessment (MELIA) Work Package 5 of the One CGIAR Initiative on Transforming Agri-Food Systems in West and Central Africa.
• Monitoring and reporting on the initiative activities, outputs, withininitiative outcomes, end-of-initiative outcomes, action area impacts, and CGIAR impact areas in West Africa.
• Data collection, processing, analysis, and reporting of the initiative's baseline, adoption, impact, and scaling studies.
• Develop performance matrices, data matrices, and data tools for data management.
• Develop M&E plans for programs, projects, and units within IITA.
• Support monitoring and evaluation work as required at the Institutional, One CGIAR & Bilateral Project levels.
• Review objective hierarchy and logical framework matrices activities, processes, inputs, outputs, outcomes, and impacts of projects under each Hub.
• Identify and design performance questions, key indicators, and targets for each project.
• Agree with stakeholders on how to record, report, and analyze progress against targets and design formats for reporting on progress.
• Undertake and facilitate M&E plan implementation, regularly revising and updating performance questions, indicators, methods, formats, and analytical processes.
• Conduct monitoring site visits, conduct/participate in evaluations (baseline, mid-term, end of project), internal and external impact assessment studies.
• Provide mentoring and coaching in performance assessment to M&E focal persons through on-site and online meetings.
• Guide unit/sections/directorate teams to use IITA’s institutional level results-indicator Handbook to develop annual/strategic plans, track activity implementation, manage performance data, and report to higher levels of supervisors’ hierarchy.
• Conduct data quality assessments of data reported to the headquarters from programs, projects, units, sections, directorates, and hubs as may be directed by the Head of M&E.
• Conduct/participate in M&E system development and training for program/project partners toward developing national capacities in M&E.
• Work with the Head of the M&E Unit to effectively maintain the Institute’s and ONE CGIAR Initiatives M&E database(s) and ensure the data are upto-date.
• Perform any other job-related task as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Qualification

• B.Sc in Statistics, Social Sciences, Agricultural Economics, Project Management, Agriculture or any other related field with a minimum of four (4) years’ experience performing a similar role in a well-structured environment.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Have excellent communication skills (writing, reading, oral).
• Have the ability to use basic packages such as Excel, PPT and other statistical packages such as SPSS and STATA.
• Be proficient in computer software packages related to database management and data analysis.
• Have strong analytical skills.
• Have strong experience in writing reports.
• Have strong experience developing web-based M&E systems.
• Have strong experience in using ONA/ODK or Survey Solutions for data collection.
• Be a good team player.

Remuneration
We offer highly competitive salaries with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

Application Closing Date
12th April, 2023.