Under the supervision of the Director AWARD, the Senior Manager ME&L will lead the
generation, compilation, analysis, and dissemination of evidence and knowledge to
increase AWARD’s visibility in the agricultural development space and AWARD’s
influence of the social, gender-responsive and economic agenda in Africa’s agriculture.
More specifically, the Senior Manager, ME&L will:
- Lead the development, management
and updating of AWARD ME&L tools, strategy/frameworks and systems;
- Coordinate the design,
implementation and reporting of ME&L activities under the different AWARD
initiatives and programs to track outcomes and impact;
- Integrate gender into AWARD
ME&L systems and ensure the application of gender-responsive data
collection and analysis methods;
- Provide technical
backstopping for project/program’s progress tracking;
- Review and advise on
project/program’s overall approach and adjustments, and prepare regular and ad
hoc updates;
- Lead the development of gender-responsive
indicators and ensure sex and age -disaggregated data is regularly generated,
compiled, analysed and adequate recommendations are formulated;
- Support the implementation
of quality assurance and control protocols and ensure internal consistency and
validity of project/program’s monitoring checks to enable improved capturing
and narration of programmatic results and impact;
- Contribute to technical
donor reporting using appropriate formats;
- Contribute to proposal
development and grants’ negotiations including design of high quality ME&L
inputs, to ensure successful proposals;
- Contribute to the review of
existing grants’ overall performance and indicators against achieved cumulative
results and make useful recommendations for performance improvement;
- Facilitate inclusive and
gender-responsive MEL and research approaches, processes, data and findings through capacity development
of AWARD staff, and periodic meetings with partners and stakeholders;
- Coordinate the dissemination
of findings/lessons learnt/best practices internally and externally through seminars,
international conferences and other relevant forums;
- Supervise and coordinate
unit staff members and consultants, including coaching and mentoring others in
the unit and overall team;
- Serve as a member of the Senior
management and support the strategy design, identification of strategic
partnerships in the agricultural research and development sectors;
- Perform any other tasks as assigned.
Requirements
Person
specification
The ideal candidate
for the role of Senior Manager ME&L (Monitoring, Evaluation and
Learning) should demonstrate the following qualifications, skills,
knowledge and experience:
Education
- Master's degree or
higher in a relevant field such as Monitoring and Evaluation, Development
Studies, Social Sciences, or related disciplines.
Knowledge and
experience
- Relevant work
experience in international agricultural sector of at least 10 years,
with not less than 5 years in a management role for ME&L;
- Experience working in various
countries on the African continent in the development/agricultural sector.
- Extensive
knowledge of gender and social inclusion analysis frameworks and in integrating
gender into ME&L systems, including the identification of indicators to
track gender specific outcomes and results;
- Demonstrated understanding
of gender considerations in agriculture, social and policy-related issues, and
opportunities for Africa’s agricultural development;
- Sound expertise in Monitoring
and Evaluation and Reporting of international donor-funded
programs/initiatives;
- Extensive knowledge of
gender-responsive ME&L concepts/systems/approaches, research design, data
management, quality assurance and control procedures;
- Experience
in developing different project/program logic tools such as the Theory of
Change, Logical framework and Results framework
- Ability to establish
goals and priorities, to plan, coordinate and effectively monitor tasks,
milestones and target achievements;
- Sound experience in
technical/donor reporting, knowledge management, capacity building and
facilitation;
- Track record of
published ME&L studies/reports and information products and dissemination
to various audiences;
- Ability to forge and
maintain effective working relationships with staff members, partners and
stakeholders;
- Excellent command of
the English Language, knowledge of French language is an added advantage;
- Ability to work
independently and proactively as a team member; and
- Ability to understand
expectations, work with competing deadlines and strong commitment to personal
and organizational accountability.