CARE International Recruitment for M & E Officer

Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for CARE International Recruitment for M & E Officer.

CARE International is one of the World’s leading humanitarian and development organizations. Founded in 1945, CARE has been fighting global poverty and defending the dignity of people around the world, working in over 90 countries around the globe.It is a global confederation of 14 members and 4 candidates/affiliate organizations working together to end poverty.

In 2017, CARE worked in 93 countries around the world, implementing 950 poverty-fighting development and humanitarian aid projects. We reached more than 62 million people directly and 216 million people indirectly.

Job Description

• Company: CARE International
• Location: Ghana
• State: Accra
• Job type: Full-Time

JOB SUMMARY
The M& E officer is responsible for designing country-specific Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning plans including indicators, analysis, monitoring, and learning in accordance with the guidelines of the Danida- funded project. S/He will work with the Project Manager to establish sound reflective practices as a basis for the advancement of project objectives. The M&E officer will supervise and coordinate data collection activities at both community and district levels and provide technical backstopping. S/He will build capacity of field teams to monitor project implementation and measure any changes and lessons in the project operational areas.

The position is based in Kumasi and will require frequent travel to the Asunafo North Municipality in the Ahafo Region.

Key Responsibilities 

• .Lead on the design of project-level M&E data collection tools, M & E plan/schedule and M&E frameworks in conjunction with the Project Manager
• Lead on the analysis of the collected data
• Database management and data protection in accordance with data protection best practices
• Support the Project team in the completion of semi-annual and annual project reporting, ensuring that the reporting is quality process and meets donor expectations and requirements
• Facilitate cross-learning during M&E events, peer evaluations, and sharing of technical resources (documents, etc.)
• Provide quality assurance for M&E related events, including review of ToRs for M&E related consultancies, baseline and evaluation designs and reports; where possible, to be present at the validation/dissemination meetings for baselines, endlines, and evaluations; also, when possible, to be present at and contributing to substantive DM&E capacity building events (for staff and/or partners).
• Maintain a calendar for projects evaluations and ME related events; including the development and support for M&E capacity building plan in coordination with Project Manager.
• Conduct periodic monitoring of project activities, outputs and outcomes including data collection on a timely basis and in accordance with M&E plans
• Support planning Semi-Annual and annual Project Review sessions with partners and Stakeholders
• Facilitate training of Staff, Partners & Stakeholders on M & E plans and tools
• Develop  quarterly impact measurement reports to keep clients informed on program activities and performance
• Participate in forums to share program based information with stakeholders at the district, regional and national levels
• Facilitate and support the documentation of project processes and achievements including documentation for public dissemination e.g draft reports, case studies/MSCs, success stories, articles for use in the dissemination of best practices
• Support partners in the review and implementation of community and district level programmes for documentation and dissemination of best practices
• Produce other reports as may be required in the project to ensure that all processes and project outcome/results and lessons are thoroughly documented and disseminated
• Support partners in action research, documentation and dissemination of project experiences in user friendly forms

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit their applications and detailed CVs to the HR Officer, CARE International in Ghana or electronically to hr.ghana@care.org.

• PLEASE INDICATE CLEARLY IN THE SUBJECT LINE THE POSITION YOU ARE APPLYING FOR.
• Closing date for submission of applications is Thursday 19th December, 2019
• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

At CARE, we know that recruiting and retaining a talented and diverse workforce is critical to achieving our mission of ending global poverty. CARE defines “diversity” beyond the regular classifications of gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability, and includes diversity of perspectives that uphold CARE’s core values. Our goal is to create and maintain a work environment that promotes diversity in everything we do. We are also committed to creating and maintaining a safe work environment for our staff, partners and beneficiaries with specific attention to protection from sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child protection. Applicants should be aware that CARE has zero tolerance for fraud and corruption, and toward any kind of harassment, exploitation and abuse. OUR DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH; WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS AND EXPERIENCES, PARTICULARLY WOMEN, TO APPLY