Food Security & Livelihood Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer

Job Description

Title: Food Security & Livelihood Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer

Company Name: Relief International

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ University degree in statistics, demographics, economics, or related field.
∎ Skills Required: Monitoring and Evaluation

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ The food security-focused M&E officer will lead on data management and routine monitoring of food security activities, including market monitoring, base/end-line assessment for food voucher distribution. The M&E officer will be responsible for monitoring the quality assurance of project activities, as well as establishing and analyzing data from beneficiary feedback mechanisms. This includes facilitating focus group discussions and conducting key informant interviews with household members and community leaders.
∎ Reporting to: FSL Coordinator
∎ Department: Food Security & Livelihood.
∎ Expected Start Date: At Earliest
∎ Contract length: Up to March 31, 2020.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ M&E System
∎ Assist in the creation of data collection tools and processes in alignment with project needs (indicators, market monitoring, process and outcome measurement)
∎ Assist in the development of M&E work plan, coinciding with the activity work plan, and keep it updated in accordance with project activities and timeframes as relevant.
∎ Provide ongoing review on the quality of existing data in the project subject areas, the methods of collecting it and the timeliness of reporting to relevant parties.
∎ Develop process for collecting baseline data for each project component and for all project indicators.
∎ Set up and manage the complaint and feedback mechanisms.
∎ Implementation of M&E and Coordination
∎ Coordinate on data collection with non-M&E staff to ensure data is collected on a regular basis to measure progress against project indicators and RI quality assurance priorities. Includes both quantitative and qualitative data collection (e.g. surveys, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews)
∎ Support project monitoring through field monitoring visits, analysis of collected data (including market, process and outcome monitoring)), and post-distribution monitoring (for food security activities).
∎ Support project progress reporting and end-line assessment.
∎ Identify lessons learned and develop case studies to capture qualitative outputs of the project.
∎ Support the implementation and monitoring of project beneficiary feedback mechanisms

Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ At least two (2) years of professional experience in an M&E position responsible for implementing M&E activities of international development or humanitarian projects.
∎ Minimum 6 months of aid-related NGO experience in Bangladesh
∎ Experience in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages.
∎ Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, and impact) and data collection and analysis methodologies a plus
∎ Experience in planning and managing surveys.
∎ Experience in developing and refining data collection tools.
∎ Experience with data quality assessments and oversight.
∎ Languages: Excellent written and spoken command of English.
∎ Good knowledge of program implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and learning techniques and practices.
∎ Familiarity with sector specific data collection requirements (familiarity with food security, nutrition, livelihoods, protection and cash or voucher programming, a plus)
∎ Good knowledge and experience regarding gender mainstreaming.
∎ Good moderation, facilitation and training skills.Excellent analytical skills.
∎ Ability to work in a team and good interpersonal skills.
∎ Good computer applications skills.
∎ Good organizational skills.
∎ Ability to work independently with a minimum of supervision.
∎ Ability to work under time pressure and meet deadlines.
∎ Ability to work in diversified environments.

Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one basic salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly basic salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary.

Application Deadline: December 5, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: House: 451 , Road: 8 West, DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka-1206; Head Quarter: 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1280 Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.

Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.

Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org

Category: NGO/Development