Somalia: AME Assistant

Department: Appraisal Monitoring & Evaluation Unit

Position: Appraisal Monitoring and Evaluation (AME) Assistant

Direct Hierarchy: Appraisal Monitoring and Evaluation (AME) Officer

Contract duration: Six Months

Location: Baidoa, Somalia

Starting Date: TBC

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 profile

Under the direct supervision of the Appraisal Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, he/she is responsible for supporting the AME Officer by providing implementation of AME TORs, supervision of enumerators, data collection, data entry, data analysis services fieldwork plan generation related to assessments contributing to the implementation of ACTED accountability framework at field level and other monitoring and evaluation activities conducted by AMEU in Baidoa.

The AME Assistant shall be responsible for:

· Assist the AME officer to prepare and implement monitoring and evaluations work plans to measure project progress and impact indicators

· Assist in planning and conducting field level data collection and project monitoring using different techniques including household surveys, market data collection, focus group discussion, key informative interviews, etc.

· Conduct training and supervision of enumerator teams, including checking questionnaires for reliability and consistency

· Support the implementation and evaluation of the feedback response mechanism

· Conduct quantitative data entry and recording of qualitative field notes and conducting quality checking and cleaning of data

· Support analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, writing initial draft reports to inform programme development and implementation

· Improve AMEU process and procedures including data collection skills, data quality, analysis and report writing

· Develop case studies, success stories and lessons learnt papers

· Assist Nairobi Accountability officer in collecting, recording and reporting on beneficiary feedback from the field.

· Perform any other task assigned by the manager.

Requirements

· Diploma in a social science or related field; Degree in social sciences or related field is preferred; at least two years experience in working with International NGO in the similar level.

· Applicants MUST be Somali nationals with good communication skills(both oral and written)

· Experience in participatory assessments, monitoring and evaluation, data processing and analysis

· Good contextual knowledge of local issues, community priorities, social and cultural constraints and realities

· Experience/knowledge with mobile phone based data collection is preferred

· Ability to organize and train field teams

· Reliable, honest and sincere work attitude

· Ability to coordinate with other departments.

· Highly motivated and ability to work with culturally diverse groups of people;

· Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective and working relationships.

· Experience and willingness to travel within Somalia areas where ACTED is active.

· Excellent communication skills, personal, calm and good sense of humor

· Fluent in written and spoken English.

· Proven ability to handle large and varied workloads, and deal constructively with stress

Application Procedure

Qualified persons with the required skills are invited to submit their applications accompanied by detailed curriculum vitae detailing three work related referees and contacts to kenya.jobs@acted.org and received on or before 5.00PM on 15^th February 2017

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please note that only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ACTED will at no stage of recruitment process request candidate to make payments of any kind. If you receive any email/calls in relation to ACTED’s recruitment and you are unsure about its validity or origin, please contact us on nairobi@acted.org

ACTED is an Equal Opportunity Employer.