Overview
ACTED is a French humanitarian NGO, founded in 1993, which supports vulnerable populations, affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. ACTED provides continued support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the sustainability of post-crisis interventions and engaging long-term challenges facing our target populations, in order to break the poverty cycle, foster development and reduce vulnerability to disasters. Their interventions seek to cover the multiple aspects of humanitarian and development crises through a multidisciplinary approach which is both global and local and adapted to each context. Their 3,300 staff is committed in to responding to emergencies worldwide, to supporting recovery and rehabilitation, towards sustainable development
Position: AME Officer
Contract: Fixed Term
Contract duration: 3 months with the possibility of extension
The Location: Yola
Starting Date: ASAP
ACTED has been operational in Nigeria since early 2017, and is working in the northeast responding to the humanitarian crisis. We collaborate with other NGOs and UN agencies to maximise the positive impact on the communities with whom we work. The two organizations have a strong complementarity formalising a global partnership, enabling IMPACT to benefit from ACTED’s operational support in its fields of intervention.
The Appraisal, Monitoring and Evaluation (AME) Officer is Supporting the Senior AME Officer in the development and implementation of appropriate and viable appraisal, monitoring and evaluation systems that are in line with ACTED’s global AME procedures, contributing to ensuring that ACTED’s projects and programs perform as planned. ACTED is looking for a professionally confident, self-motivated, experienced, and committed team player to fill the Appraisal, Monitoring and Evaluation (AME) Officer position based in Yola, Nigeria
RESPONSIBILITIES
Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
Technical and Systems Development
- Contribute to the development and updating of the country’s AME strategy, the consolidated AME work plan and AME frameworks for all ongoing projects;
- Ensure that AME findings are reflected, and their recommendations are incorporated in future concept notes, proposals and implementation plans;
- Implement the AME policies and procedures as described in the ACTED AME standard guidelines and make sure that the tools are followed as applicable.
- Contribute to an effective roll-out of M&E collection and reporting systems to all staff and partners through training, site visits, manuals, and other technical support as needed.
AME Implementation and Management
- Develop and oversee the implementation of appropriate data collection and analysis instruments, methodologies (e.g. survey questionnaires, focus group discussions, key-informant interviews) and data/information dissemination/utilization plans;
- Analyze AME data and produce reports, and factsheets with useful statistical analysis and presentation (charts, tables, histograms, box plots) as necessary in a timely manner;
- Measure and report on qualitative and quantitative input, process, output, outcome, impact, objective, and goal-level performance indicators for all projects.
- Contribute to donor proposals (logical-framework designs, formulation of SMART indicators and AME budgets) and reports.
- Provide AME-related capacity building and awareness to implementing partners and other institutions supported by ACTED as appropriate.
- Represent ACTED in different forums on AME-related issues when required.
- Contribute to proactive dissemination and use of knowledge gained through AME activities among Project Managers, Technical Coordinators and Project Development Managers/Officers.
- Contribute to organizing and facilitating learning events to capture best practices and lessons learnt when a project closes or as required.
- Document and share the lessons learnt and best practices on time and ensure that the knowledge gained contributes to the improvement of projects and influences the strategic development of future projects and activities.
- Support project implementation and improvement by providing timely information around project successes to be scaled up as well as challenges to allow ‘course correction’ throughout the life of the program.
Beneficiary Complaints and Response Mechanism
- Contributing to the implementation of the beneficiary Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) in line with ACTED standard beneficiary CRM procedures.
- Contribute to the proper management of the project CRM central database.
- Build capacity and understanding among ACTED staff, partners and contractors on beneficiary accountability and CRM.
We offer
- Contract length: 3 months, with the possibility of extension
- Level: D2-1 (national contract)
- Start date: 3rd Jan 2022
ABOUT YOU
All employees should master ACTED’s core Principles: Independence, Neutrality, Non-discrimination, free and direct access to victims, Ethics, Professionalism, anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability
Moreover, we also expect the following:
Essential
The AMEU Officer will be appraised based on his/her experience and demonstration of the qualities and competencies listed below:
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in statistics, social sciences or closely related to the field
- Proficient understanding of MEAL, including the ability to work effectively with tight timelines, high-quality standards, and demanding potentially overlapping priorities.
- Experience of social research methods to conduct monitoring and evaluation for humanitarian and development initiatives/interventions.
- Excellent analytical skills in order to interpret qualitative and quantitative data and discern useful recommendations for programme implementation and development.
- Proficiency in mobile data collection (design, deployment, and monitoring) is highly desired.
- Statistical analysis and IT skills, including the use of SPSS/R/Stata and Excel for data analysis.
- At least 2 years of work experience in a similar field; former experience with humanitarian organizations is an asset.
- Good English communication skills (both oral and written).
- Strong team player of high integrity, pleasant personality, ability to work under the least supervision and meet strict deadlines.
- High level of integrity, transparency, and honesty.
- Knowledge of the location context and language is preferred
Application Closing date: Close of Business Friday 19th DEC 2022
How to apply
Method of Application:
Interested and qualified candidates should Click on the link below to apply online; Using “AME Officer, Yola “ as the subject.
CLICK HERE TO APPLY
Note:
- Candidates that do not comply with the application instruction will be disqualified.
- We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be invited to the recruitment process
- Any successful candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.
- There will be travel requirements and opportunities both within Nigeria.
- ACTED is an Equal Opportunity Employer
CVs will be reviewed on rolling bases. Due to the many expected applicants, only short-listed candidates will be contacted and invited for an interview. We apologise for the inconvenience.
ACTED considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
For general information about ACTED, please consult: www.acted.org
As the CVs will be reviewed on rolling bases, the Interview could be held before the closing date.
