Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Manager Job in Kenya

Save the Children East Africa Regional Office (EARO) is looking to recruit aRegional Monitoring and Evaluation Manager.

Role Purpose: 

As a key member of the East Africa regional programme development and quality team, you will be responsible for the provision of monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning support to the regional office and country offices across the East Africa region, focusing on Save the Children’s dual mandate of humanitarian and development programming.

Key Areas of Accountability:

• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Capacity Building

Qualifications:

A degree in a relevant field; a degree in relation to monitoring and evaluation (e.g. in knowledge management, evaluation, etc), or in one or more of Save the Children’s thematic areas (e.g. education, public health, nutrition, child protection, child rights and emergency response) is considered a plus.

Key Duties

• Develop and ensure application of effective monitoring, tracking and reporting systems, tools and templates that enable and enhance regular monitoring of outputs and programme quality across regional and country programmes, and generate quality evidence at various programme levels
• Promote child-focused programming that enables broad, qualitative M&E and learning
• Work with regional and country office humanitarian teams to ensure effective humanitarian M&E processes and mechanisms are in place, including supporting set up and ongoing technical support of the Output Tracker for humanitarian responses
• Provide technical support on project/programme design, strategic development, and country annual planning and reporting processes
• Develop and implement accountability mechanisms (including the promotion of child-led and participatory M&E)
• Champion knowledge management through the sharing of evaluations and lessons learned from regional and country programmes; develop and implement a regional lessons-learned database, including the facilitation of sharing of recommendations and lessons learned from evaluations and other learning initiatives
• Work with the regional office and country offices to identify M&E training and capacity building requirements, and to develop capacity building plans and coordination mechanisms for training delivery
• Where agreed, provide training for the regional office and country offices on SCI’s M&E systems, including essential procedures for design and M&E, country annual planning and reporting, humanitarian Output Tracker processes, and compliance with the newly developed Dual Mandate Quality Framework
• Support regional teams and country office M&E managers/teams and thematic advisors (from Members and Global Initiatives) in delivering the specific distance or face-to-face trainings

For the complete Role Profile, please email EA.recruitment@savethechildren.org. 

To apply, send a copy of your CV with a cover letter to EA.recruitment@savethechildren.org.

Application closes 26th April 2013 at 5:00pm.

We work with children, communities and governments all over the world and we believe in the right person for the job regardless of where you come from and how you identify yourself. 

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to ensuring that only those who are suitable to work with children are considered for these posts. 

All successful applicants will therefore be required to complete a Police Check and must sign onto our Child Protection Policy and organizational Code of Conduct.