Job Description of Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in NGO

Mainly the monitoring & evaluation officer responsible to look at all project activities from start to end, and keep activity progress in monitoring formats with the work progress indicators. Secondly, M&EO conducts a critical and in-depth monitoring process and make sure all project activities are in the right way and performing according to the parameters set in the project initiation proposal. 

Key tasks and responsibilities of monitoring and evaluation officer is mentioned one by one in the below?  Hope it will give you enough knowledge regarding the monitoring and evaluation process and what things you need to adapt to get perfect indicators of project activities.






COMPLETE JOB DESCRIPTION OF MONITORING & EVALUATION OFFICER IN NGO

JOB TITLE: MONITORING & EVALUATION OFFICER.

JOB LOCATION: THE POSITION BASED IN CORE OFFICE.

REPORTING LINE: ADMINISTRATIVE FIELD MANAGER

FUNCTIONAL: MONITORING MANAGER

JOB PURPOSE:

To monitor and evaluate the entire on-going project activities and conduct impact studies across the field area. Conduct and coordinate economic impact analysis and economic research related to the program interventions and issues at the program level. Function as a resource person to regional M&E on economic and cost/benefit analysis work. Support and help identify research themes for assessing the impact of programs. Develop participatory monitoring and evaluation of on-going activities.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Facilitate all the sectoral heads in preparing the annual planning documents and Logical frame Analysis. Job Description

Collect progress data from all sections and compile it in a standard format and produce all quarterly progress reports including assist line manager to produce annual progress report to donors.

Ensure annual planning, budgeting, and reporting systems. Lead in conducting internal & external monitoring and evaluation reports on a timely basis (annual reviews and other reports.

Lead in conducting a socio-economic analysis of the project interventions and prepare a project proposal for funding. Liaison with donors and funding agencies and visitors.

Provide technical support to project staff in conducting research and impact studies, surveys and evaluation of the project activities. Identify and arrange training courses and develop inputs for monitoring & evaluation staff.

Lead in organizing a capacity building training course on socio-economic research and impact analysis for sectoral staff. Visit the project area and collect the progress indicators through the monitoring process. Write progress case and impact studies of interventions of the project progression.

Arrange monthly or quarterly progress review meetings with different sections heads. Prepare cost-benefit analysis of program interventions. Assist line managers and provide field data to write project proposals. Develop a checklist for monitoring activities; and conduct process monitoring of ongoing activities.

Facilitate donor missions and visits to other development agencies. Train enumerators in case of in-house studies/surveys, including pre-testing of tools developed for such studies

Develop plan and design training courses in socio-economic research for the sectoral staff of the field office. Design and conduct farm & household income and expenditure surveys across the program on a periodic basis. Analyze and disseminate results of surveys for programming

Design a comprehensive MIS on the results, outputs, activities, and inputs of the program and other projects at the field level. Train and assist regional monitoring assistants and sector staff on the data collection formats and data collection process, ensure that field sector staff provides data to update the MIS and send the field data to the MIS officer at the head office.

Design and develop monitoring and evaluations systems and holistic database for all the baseline and impact surveys and results drawn from the surveys at the field level. Monitor and evaluate the effects of ongoing programs from an economic perspective. This should be done using the logical framework analysis and other reporting indicators as a reference point

Maintain database at the field office level. Support technical line manager in organizing learning events and workshops for respective project sections to document lessons learned. Assist sectoral staff in designing and conducting research and case studies

MINIMUM JOB QUALIFICATION:
Master’s in relevant social Science (with strong background in Economics, Statistics, Econometrics, Mathematics,) preferably in economics)

Related Work Experience & Training: 

Minimum 2 to 3 years of work experience in the relevant field.

Special Skills Required:
Strong analytical, writing, presentation skills
Computer Skills; Microsoft office

Ability to Work Under Pressure

work independently as well as a team player
Quantitative & qualitative analytical skills
Fluent in English and other national languages
Must have complete computer operation skills

Minimum Age Limit:

25 and above