Job Profiles for the Rwanda Digital Acceleration Project

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Number of Positions

2

Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist

(part-time)

Selection Criteria:

• Master’s degree preferred (minimum acceptable is a bachelor’s degree) in Economics, Statistics, Data Science, Project Management or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience for a bachelor’s degree graduate and at least 3 years of relevant work experience for a master’s degree graduate.

 Technical competencies:

• Track record of leading and supporting monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for complex, large multi-year donor-funded development projects/programs (with prior experience of working on projects in the ICT and innovation sector preferred);
• Demonstrated technical experience of designing, establishing, and implementing M&E frameworks, systems, and tools that track performance and development impact;
• Demonstrated experience in supporting timely and quality data collection from various stakeholders, and/or conducting surveys;
• Demonstrated experience in supporting capacity building of stakeholders allowing them to produce the required inputs/outputs in relation to M&E frameworks established;
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, research, management information systems, reporting, data quality assessments;
• Demonstrated high-level technical skills in data formatting, cleaning, analyzing, charting, graphing, and reporting;
• Excellent conceptual and analytical skills, with proven ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Stata, MS Access;
• Ability to present M&E data to a diverse audience in easily digestible formats using charts, graphs, and other data presentation techniques appropriately to communicate data verbally or in writing;
• Experience in compiling clear M&E reports;

 General Competencies (management, leadership, communication, problem-solving, monitoring, coordination, stakeholder management, etc.)

• Strongly results-oriented and able to manage a complex and multi-faceted workload with minimal supervision to efficiently meet deadlines;
• Strong management and planning skills;
• Team player, with good interpersonal skills, and proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts and multi-disciplinary teams;
• Excellent skills in facilitation and coordination, and ability to resolve conflicts constructively
• Ability to maintain a strategic overview and manage priorities yet be detail-orientated within a dynamic, fast-paced environment;
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including report writing and presentation skills;
• Strong problem-solving abilities;
• Fluency in English is essential;
• Solid IT skills including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
• Should demonstrate a high degree of professionalism and integrity.

1. Provide leadership and direction on all matters pertaining to M&E to ensure the program achieves its goals and corresponding objectives and targets consistent with WB requirements and national monitoring and evaluation guidelines, protocols, information, and reporting systems;
2. Lead efforts to monitor and evaluate project interventions, document results and provide feedback to guide decision-making and implementation;
3. Support preparation, establishment, and implementation of a robust M&E framework and system, as well as Theory of Change, for the project, in close coordination with relevant project stakeholders, technical experts in the SPIU, and the WB;
4. Support preparation of the M&E framework by mapping and proposing relevant outcome and intermediary project indicators (including definition, frequency, method, and responsibility for data collection), as well as identify any key data gaps and proposing solutions to bridge them;
5. Ensure that M&E aspects are actively considered and embedded as part of project activities’ feasibility, design, and implementation, through coordination with concerned parties (e.g. including related provisions in bidding documents and contracts for third-party providers);
6. Facilitate planning and execution of any M&E baseline, annual and final project assessment needed (e.g. household survey), for example, supporting contracting of further consultants to support the process.
7. Support the SPIU coordinator in establishing a robust M&E reporting system as well as related tools to be managed by the SPIU, where data may be sourced from third parties (including contracted providers but also government entities such as RURA, NISR, etc.), identifying any capacity gaps and reporting issues and suggesting/supporting remedial action;
8. Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with relevant parties to support effective data collection and reporting;
9. Design an appropriate reporting format to be disseminated and agreed upon with all stakeholders;
10. Support movement towards disaggregated data, where currently missing (e.g. for gender), working with related stakeholders;
11. Develop and oversee data flow pattern for the program that will ensure timely data collection, analysis, formatting, and reporting;
12. Provide high quality and timely periodical reports of activities (monthly, quarterly and annual reports) for all the activities during the project preparation phase to RISA and project steering committee, support presentation where needed;
13. Lead results reporting to the WB by providing written documentation on M&E activities and key project indicators and results in conjunction with missions and (monthly, quarterly and annual) progress reports as well as project completion reports, by compiling inputs from various sources;
14. Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures, including routine data quality audits;
15. Ensure that the reports are validated, approved, and disseminated, where required;
16. Flag and escalate any expected delays to activities and lags in project progress encountered, as evidenced by the data in the M&E framework, to the attention of the SPIU Coordinator, senior managers, and the WB;
17. Conduct ad hoc targeted evaluations and operations research, including design, data collection, management, and analysis, where needed;
18. Perform any other tasks assigned by the project coordinator.

Reporting:

The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will report to the SPIU Coordinator

Deliverables

• Draft M&E framework (within first three months of contract signature)
• Draft M&E system and implementation plan (within first three months of contract signature)
• Progress report (every month)

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