IRC recrute un responsable senior ME, Mubi, Nigeria

 

Requête nº : req14229

Intitulé de poste : Senior ME Officer – Mubi

Secteur d’activité : Éducation

Type de contrat : Durée Déterminée

Taux d’occupation : Plein temps

Ouvert aux expatriés : Non

Lieu de travail : Mubi, Nigeria

 

Descriptif du poste :

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

IRC Nigeria Program :

The IRC has been present in Nigeria since 2012 when the organization responded to flooding in Kogi state. In February 2014, the IRC moved into Adamawa State in North East Nigeria to provide humanitarian interventions through a multi-sectoral, integrated approach for conflict affected populations. IRC Nigeria now operates a country office in Abuja and field offices in Mubi and Yola of Adamawa State, Maiduguri and Monguno of Borno state and Damatru of Yobe State. The IRC is responding at scale to the humanitarian situation across sectors including Education, Child Protection, Health, Nutrition, Women Protection and Empowerment, Environmental Health, Economic Recovery and Development, Protection and Rule of Law, and Governance.

Job Overview/Summary :

In Adamawa, the IRC is implementing.

A GIZ-funded School-Based Education System Strengthening Project that aims to benefit 63,000 children with quality education services in safe, functioning, and responsive schools in Adamawa state.

Educate A Child Programme  “Improving Access to Education for Conflict-Affected Children in Northeast Nigeria” that aims to reach 20,000 children in BAY States with quality non-formal education services.

ECHO – funded ‘Protective and adaptive Education Approaches for Children in Emergencies (PEACE)’ which aims at supporting more than 81,000 school-aged boys across BAY states  to access and learn in safe educational environments, together with Child Protection.

The Senior M&E  Officer will be responsible for the overall coordination of the monitoring, learning and evaluation related activities of the GIZ ASSESS, EAC AND ECHO PEACE Projects in Adamawa State. This position is based in Mubi and reports to Education Manager in Mubi.

Major Responsibilities :

  • Closely work with Education and M&E staff in Adamawa to make sure that all the education projects in the state have  standard monitoring tools that capture both program activity and indicators progresses ;
  • Ensures proper implementation of the education projects’ accountability/feedback mechanism in Adamawa state ;
  • Assist Education M&E Manager in conducting and documenting project learning, and sharing lessons learned and best practices, incorporating these into project implementation ;
  • Facilitate the preparations of monthly project activity plans including M&E plans ;
  • Work with project staff to determine which monitoring activities will take place and which data collection methods to use ;
  • Work with project staff to ensure that the project work plans include monitoring activities (or that a stand-alone monitoring work plan is in place), is up-to date and progress tracked ;
  • Work with project staff to develop, translate, pilot, and finalize data collection tools as needed ;
  • Work with projects to ensure that data is collected and entered databases and tracking sheets, and the data platform regularly ;
  • Work with project staff to track progress on action points related to implementation and M&E activities ;
  • Work with EAC project staff to provide M&E inputs for reports written during project implementation ;
  • Closely follow up the field data collection and flag the data collection issues to the Education Managers and Education M&E Manager ;
  • Conduct data quality audits of project data to identify and resolve systemic problems affecting data quality.

Key Working Relationships :

  • Position Reports to :  Education Manager ;
  • Position directly supervises :  M&E officer ;
  • Indirect Reporting :  EAC Education Manager.

 

Profil :

  • University degree (statistics, social science, development economics, or a related discipline) ;
  • Minimum three years of experience within the development / humanitarian sector ;
  • Proven technical skills in monitoring and evaluation, experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis ;
  • Proven abilities in developing monitoring plans, data collection, information management, use of databases, and analysis and performance monitoring ;
  • Demonstrated ability to train and build the capacity of others ;
  • Comprehensive knowledge of humanitarian accountability principles and their translation into practice ;
  • Strong planning, organizational and interpersonal skills ;
  • Excellent analytical, presentation, and reporting skills ;
  • An excellent database, data management, and data analysis skills, with experience using at least two software applications such as Microsoft Excel, Access, SPSS, STATA, Epidata, Epi-Info ;
  • Willingness to travel extensively in northeast Nigeria, including to remote and/or insecure locations.

Working Environment :

Standards of Professional Conduct :  The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct.  These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability.  In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.

Gender Equality : IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.

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