TITLE:  Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Programme Management

LOCATION: Kigali, Rwanda with frequent field visits in Rwanda and great lakes region

GRADE : Grade 5, Step 2

CONTRACT LENGTH: 12 Months with 3 months of probationary period

SCOPE OF ROLE:

 Reports to:  Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Dimensions:

International Alert is headquartered in London. It holds more than 30 years of experience working to promote peacebuilding, policy influence and evidence-based advocacy around conflict and gender sensitive approaches. International Alert Rwanda office is mainly implementing Mupaka Shamba Letu or MSL project under which the M&E Assistant will work intensively. The office is also carrying out Duhuze (peacebuilding and reconciliation project), Farmers’ Voice Project (farmers’ participation to agriculture policies and governance) and Creating Off-farm Rwandan Enterprises or CORE project. International Alert Rwanda programs covers over a half of districts across the country and works collaboratively with International Alert offices in Africa as well as around the world.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

 Programme Support at field level:

 Under the supervision of Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

•   Set up simple systems to manage information or data generated by monitoring and evaluation activities, such as trainings, mobilization events, advocacy initiatives, researches, activity monitoring, and evaluations.  Conduct simple data analysis and disseminate information to line manager for data validation and further inform programme management.
•  Identify monitoring, evaluation, and learning or MEL staffing needs for peacebuilding, conflict sensitive, business for peace programmes, and support staff induction on MEL programme coverage and training.
• Support coordination of needs assessments, ensuring assessment findings are documented and include sound analysis. Work close with Senior M&E Officer throughout of programme baseline surveys, mid-term evaluation and endline evaluation where required.
• To ensure that the minimum standards of peacebuilding lenses are maintained in accordance with the International Alert Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact frameworks.

Capacity Building :

•   Identify learning and training opportunities for projects and programme staff and work as a mentor for less experienced staff from partner CSOs.
• Conduct training and awareness raising activities for programme and partner staff at field e.g. project officers and project coordinators level regarding MEL priorities and quality standards aligned to MSL project gender curriculum, entrepreneurship resources as well as business for peace manuals.

General :

•   Comply with International Alert policies and practice with respect to staff safeguarding inclusive of Covid-19 prevention, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Talent

•  At Alert, we have introduced Talent Management to our business model as we believe talented people are crucial to the success of our work.  We believe all individuals are talented and that success comes in matching the right talents to the right roles.
• For this role, the skills, qualifications and experience listed below are important, but we believe that to be great in this job you are likely, first and foremost, to have a talent for analytical thinking and persuasive communication, balanced with a constructive and collegial personal working style that can advance Alert’s goals of coalition-building and promoting peaceful outcomes.

 Ambition:

•   Set ambitious and challenging goals to further prove programme changes, innovations and harvest non-intentional outcomes from different projects in close collaboration with Senior M&E Officer and project teams.
•  Widely shares personal results-based vision to advance International Alert Rwanda programming

Collaboration:

• Build and maintain effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and other MEL professionals.
• Value diversity, see it as a source of competitive strength.
•  Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develop and encourage new and innovative solutions along with data analysis, data visualization and use of digital systems for data collection, analysis and reporting.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

 Essential

• Significant years of experience of working within peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and gender sensitivity sectors.
• Education to BSc/BA/ level in a relevant subject e.g., social sciences, sociometrics, development, peace studies, psychometrics, or equivalent field.
• Significant experience of undertaking a MEL related role in post-conflict or post-genocide environment
• Previous experience of managing project database.
• Experience of, and commitment to working through systems of community participation.
• Demonstrated strong monitoring and evaluation skills, including planning/participating in evaluations
•  Experience of training and capacity building.
•  Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project data analysis reports. A high level of written and spoken professional French and good at English
• Excellent analytical and communication skills

Desirable

•   Experience or knowledge of working and living in great lakes region
•  Good understanding of cross-border trade programming
•  Knowledge of partnership working
• Experience in both implementation and design desirable
• Willingness to travel and stay in remote rural areas undertaking data collection, success story collection, outcome harvesting exercises.
• Experience with beneficiary communications desirable