About the Job
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT: National M&E Expert – Ethiopia
JOB DESCRIPTION
Brief project description
ECO Consult is implementing the KfW-financed project Strengthening of Rural Value Chains in Ethiopia. For the project team, we are seeking an experienced national Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Expert to start as soon as possible. The project aims to increase agricultural productivity of cereal crops (wheat, barley, teff) and pulses by promoting climate-smart and ecologically sustainable farming practices, and through improving farmers’ access to inputs and markets in selected areas. It will strengthen farmer-based organizations and rural SMEs, improve services provided by key value-chain actors, and strengthen the implementation capacities of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Regional Bureaus of Agriculture.
Duty area: A
ddis Ababa, travel to the project regions as required
Estimated expert input:
Approximately 20 person-months (600 working days) until 1 April 2030 (short-term service provider contract).
Start of work:
Immediate
About You
Tasks
Work closely with the Team Leader and the federal and regional Project Implementation Units on project monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
Set up and maintain a flexible, and transparent, computerized system, covering financial and technical monitoring and evaluation indicators (in close cooperation with financial expert).
Prepare the M&E-related sections of the Project Implementation Manual and support the development of detailed monitoring guidelines.
Support monitoring of project implementation, including quality and quantity checks and progress against outputs, indicators, work plans and budgets.
Coordinate the integration and use of baseline information and support the regular updating of indicator values and the results matrix.
Support monitoring of ecological and socio-economic impacts, including project effects on jobs and income opportunities in the project area.
Collect, verify, consolidate and analyze monitoring data received from the federal and regional levels and relevant project partners.
Contribute to inception, progress and progress reports, including concise tables, graphs, maps, dashboards and photo documentation.
Support data quality assurance, documentation, and traceability, and maintain a digital project document management system.
Provide practical guidance and on-the-job capacity building to PIU staff and other relevant partners on data collection, data management, monitoring and reporting.
Qualifications of the M&E Expert
Education / training
Master’s degree in a field related to the position.
General professional experience
At least five years of professional experience in project monitoring and evaluation in donor-funded development projects (e.g. KfW, World Bank, or GIZ).
Specific professional experience
Demonstrated experience in establishing and operating computerised M&E systems; results frameworks and indicators; data collection, verification and analysis; and preparation of project monitoring reports.
Software skills
Familiarity with relevant software for M&E, data management, remote data collection, analysis, visualisation, and digital document management, such as KoboToolbox, Power BI, Excel-based dashboards, GIS applications, Office 365 MS Teams and Sharepoint.
Sector / project experience
Experience in agricultural development, rural development, agricultural value chains or comparable projects would be an advantage.
Country experience
Professional experience in Ethiopia and familiarity with federal and regional institutional structures would be an advantage.
Language
Good working knowledge of English is mandatory. Knowledge of relevant Ethiopian local languages would be an advantage.
Requirement Skill
Data analysis and market trend interpretation