Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Agriculture/Inclusive Growth
Company: CAMRIS International
Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: MBA/MSc/MA
Experience: 7 years
Job Field: Administration / Secretarial Agriculture/Agro-Allied NGO/Non-Profit
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CAMRIS International is a growing international development and research firm that realizes innovative solutions to health and development challenges through high-quality, cost-effective program and research management services. With experience working in more than 80 countries, we combine our proven systems with today's most effective, evidence-based best practices to improve the lives of people around the world. We apply a customized, customer-centric, cost-effective business approach to offer greater value to our clients and challenge the way things have always been done in our field.
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RESPONSIBILITIES: – The M&E Specialist, Agriculture/Inclusive Growth will serve as the M&E, training and capacity development lead for USAID/Nigeria Development Objective 1, inclusive growth. Inclusive growth activities are designed to increase agricultural productivity, improve trade and transportation and increase the resiliency for rural households to shocks and stresses.
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The M&E Specialist, Agriculture/Inclusive Growth will: – Design and implement impact and performance evaluations, surveys, studies, analyses and assessments. – Present evaluation, survey, analysis and assessment findings, recommendations and conclusions to USAID, implementing partners and other stakeholders. – Review, revise, and maintain the USAID/Nigeria Mission Performance Management Plan (PMP), project M&E plans, and activity M&E plans related to DO 1, inclusive growth. – Manage the process of high quality performance monitoring by project staff and implementing partners including: data collection, monitoring, reporting, dissemination, and related tasks. – Integrate gender, disability-inclusive, and conflict sensitive measures into M&E activities, ensuring that they align with field standards, are consistently and systematically tracked and reported in accordance with USAID data reporting requirements. – Serve as primary point of contact for USAID/Nigeria DO 1, inclusive growth team.
Lead, facilitate and participate in M&E workshops, training and capacity building activities with USAID and implementing partner staff. – Conduct data quality assessments in the field. – Attend local, regional and international meetings, as required. – Travel throughout Nigeria as needed.
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QUALIFICATIONS: – Advanced degree in the field of businesses, agricultural economics, political science, economics, public policy, statistics, and/or a relevant field. – Minimum of seven years of experience in monitoring and evaluation. – At least five years of M&E experience of agricultural productivity, value chain integration, agribusiness, household resilience to shocks and stresses, business enabling environment, and access to finance. – Deep experience integrating gender considerations into M&E activities focused on agriculture and rural societies in Nigeria – Familiarity with USAID's objectives, approaches and operations, particularly as they relate to monitoring, evaluation, and learning. – Experience developing and facilitating M&E trainings and capacity development activities. – Familiarity with Nigerian landscape: culturally, linguistically, historically, and economically. Prior work experience in Nigeria is preferred. – Experience using technological innovations when conducting monitoring, such as tablets, smartphones, evaluation-related software applications, etc. – Professional fluency in English. Professional working proficiency in Hausa preferred. – Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint required. – Proficiency in SPSS or other statistical applications required. – Nigerian nationals are encouraged to apply.
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