19^th May 2021

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Mission

Empower Rwanda’s Mission is to empower the most vulnerable women and Youth in Rwanda for their academic and socio-economic development through enhancing access to quality education and health; social and economic empowerment and advocacy interventions.

Vision

Empower Rwanda exists to have empowered women and youth with knowledge and skills to impact their lives and communities.

Job Title:     Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Reports to:   Head of Programmes

Unit:               Programmes

Duty Station: Nyagatare District

Duration:       May-December 2021 renewable upon performance & availability of funds

Empower Rwanda (ER) is a Women-led local Non-Governmental Organization whose vision is to have empowered women and youth with knowledge and skills to impact their lives and communities and a mission to empower the most vulnerable women and youth in Rwanda for their academic and socio-economic development through enhancing access to quality education and health; social and economic empowerment and advocacy interventions.

With the funding from Kvinna till Kvinna, Empower Rwanda would like to recruit 1 Field Officer in the framework of the “HER VOICE HER RIGHT” Project implemented in Nyagatare and Gatsibo districts.

The overall objective of the “HER VOICE HER RIGHT” Project is to empower teen mothers with knowledge and skills to claim their sexual and reproductive health rights(SRHR) and promote their active participation in Gender-Based Violence(GBV) prevention. The project also aims to increase duty bearer’s accountability to GBV prevention and understanding of SRHR.

Empower Rwanda secured funding from Kvinna till Kvinna (an international Swedish women’s rights organization) to implement Her Voice Her Right Project which aims at empowering teen mothers with knowledge and skills to claim their Sexual & Reproductive Health Rights and promote their active participation in GBV prevention. The project also aims to increase duty bearer’s accountability to GBV prevention and understanding of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Eastern Province.

JOB SUMMARY

The M&E Officer will provide technical leadership and oversight on the Empower Rwanda programmes’ monitoring, evaluation, and learning strategies and activities. This will include conducting workshops, research, and data analysis; producing reports and visual representations; provision of technical advice; presenting and sharing learning, and representation of Empower Rwanda.

The M&E Officer will lead the outcome harvesting approach; coordinate planning, data collection, and analysis for all project indicators being implemented in Rwamagana, Gatsibo, and Nyagatare districts; train ER Staff on data collection and analysis tools; and manage day-to-day review and feedback of collected data; and support M&E processes for the project in close collaboration with Head of Programmes. S/he will also ensure that learning from these surveys is translated into effective advocacy, including the production of policy papers, and learning events.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads the Monitoring and Evaluation of all the projects in the organization
• Prepare all monthly/quarterly/annual monitoring reports for all projects in the organization
• Organizing learning sessions from the project’s impact or failures
• Managing the existing M&E system
• Ensures projects Indicators are all up to date
• Leads and facilitates all projects assessment and researches within the organization
• Leads the design of projects, fiscal year plans, and projects models
• Creates a functional M&E system that facilitates data flow and support the reporting processes
• Organizes and coordinate reflection meeting on the organizational effectiveness and learning events
• Coordinates and lead annual, Quarterly, and monthly reporting processes for projects in the program
• Collects lessons learned and documents success stories & best practices resulted from the project’s interventions in the program
• Managing database and develop dashboards that summarize the existing program data
• Participates actively in Programme Planning, ensuring that Empower’s change framework and Gender Practice Note is clearly reflected in our programme implementation.
• Organizes and facilitates training workshops on the monitoring and evaluation systems, data collection, outcome harvesting and participates in meetings with authorities, donors, partners, and project beneficiaries to share lessons learned, advocate policy recommendations, etc.

 Qualifications:

 Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, Statistics, Demography, Mental and Public health or any other related fields.

Competencies

• Working Experience of at least 4 years in Monitoring and Evaluation with a particular emphasis on developing systems and processes which generate and analyze field, programme, and organizational level results information.
• Demonstrated experience performing qualitative and quantitative data collection and data analysis in peacebuilding and/or trauma healing programmes is a must.
• In the development of M&E and/performance monitoring plans and tools.
• Very familiar with project outcome Mapping/Harvesting, and/or Logical Framework
• Advanced computer skills in MS Office applications and ideally data processing and analysis software (SPSS, STATA, Kobo Collect, etc.)
• Qualification in statistics would be an added advantage.
• Excellent communication skills: ability to write clearly and concisely and to communicate effectively and accurately (orally and in written reports)
• Good interpersonal skills: the ability to work in a team while being able to work independently and meet deadlines, including remotely.
• Must be competent to work in English and Kinyarwanda. Working knowledge of French will be an advantage.

Interested and eligible applicants should submit the following documents to [email protected]  with a copy to [email protected]  not later than 25^th May 2021, 5 pm.

Applications should be addressed to the Country Director

Motivation letter explaining your suitability for the position

Curriculum vitae with 3 referee names

Degree Certificate

Copy of ID and additional certificates if any.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.