Regional Monitoring & Evaluation Manager

Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise

General Information

TechnoServe is a nonprofit international development organization founded in 1968. Its mission is to help entrepreneurial men and women break the cycle of poverty by building businesses that create jobs, income, and economic opportunities for their families, their communities, and their countries.

Our work focuses on identifying promising business opportunities with a positive economic role for and impact on the rural poor.

Our approach is based on hiring high-performing people who share our vision of private sector solutions to generate sustainable solutions to poverty. We believe in hard work, creativity, and leveraging the dynamism of talented people.

We are committed to innovation, learning, and results, with a global team drawn from world-class industry and management consulting firms. We are currently working in more than 20 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

Purpose

Provide management of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) components of the regional Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise (STRYDE) program, which will operate in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda.

The Regional M&E Manager will work closely with the STRYDE Regional Program Manager, other program and country management, as well as TechnoServe’s East Africa regional M&E Manager.

S/he will be responsible for enabling evidence-based decision-making processes by program leadership, timely development of STRYDE M&E systems, and effective implementation of STRYDE M&E activities.

Duties & Responsibilities

M&E Systems and Processes:

• Establish a framework, methodology, procedures, and responsibilities for monitoring and evaluating program performance in accordance with the logical framework and reporting requirements;
• Develop M&E systems for use throughout project lifecycle;
• Undertake regular visits to the field to support implementation of M&E activities;
• Ensure quality control and identify where adaptations might be needed;
• Update existing IT systems that will allow for regular and ongoing aggregation, analysis and reporting of monitoring data;
• Establish an M&E calendar for the duration of program that lays out start and end dates for major M&E deliverables, regular periodic analysis of data to identify and communicate lessons-learned, and regular periodic presentation of data and analyses to program management;
• Work with senior program management to integrate M&E data into program planning and decision-making processes;
• Plan and oversee M&E data collection and analyze such data to ensure relevancy and accuracy on a regular basis;
• Review, monitor, and analyze reports for impact evaluation;
• Help to identify the cause of potential bottlenecks in implementation;
• Ensure that all M&E processes adhere to corporate, contractual, and donor standards;
• Support the production of narrative and financial reports for internal and external consumption;
• Contribute to determining the effectiveness of technical training packages.

Regional Coordination and Personnel Management:

• Overall coordination and quality monitoring of STRYDE M&E team’s input and work content;
• Manage program M&E staff assigned to each country;
• Work closely with Regional Program Manager and EA Division Regional M&E Manager to help ensure that program workplans are on target to meet deliverables in a timely and effective manner;
• Share analyses and trends with program team members to help synchronize program decision-making processes with M&E results;
• Provide coaching, direction, and leadership support to program team members in achieving results;
• Interface with other country, regional, and HQ staff;
• Coordinate with Regional M&E Advisor on regional and corporate initiatives;
• Ensure M&E information is shared and flows transparently within the program team and to other organizational levels, as appropriate;
• Ensure that lessons learned in one area of operation are applied elsewhere, as appropriate;
• Create, disseminate, and support country-level adaptation and use of standard templates and tools for key program deliverables, including but not limited to: key M&E indicators and templates, selection criteria, training materials, country-level work plans and other management and quality assurance tools;
• Work with program staff to identify M&E needs at both regional and country levels and provide training, as appropriate.

Evaluation of Partners & Sub-contractors:

• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with local partners/ contractors in countries of operation;
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of partners and sub-contractors;
• Make recommendations to senior program management on the quality of partners’ and sub-contractors’ services.

Requirements

• Qualifications in business, economics, statistics or international development-related studies required;
• At least 5 years of experience with M&E methods and approaches, including designing, planning, and implementing M&E systems, analyzing and reporting using a logical framework and other strategic planning approaches;
• Strong interpersonal and management skills required;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills a must;
• Ability to develop well written, cohesive analyses and reports;
• Strong analytical, program management, and financial analysis skills;
• Personnel management experience required;
• International development experience, entrepreneurship skills, and experience working with youth training and/or mentorship programs preferred;
• Fluency in English required; Swahili and/or French language skills preferred;
• Willingness to be based in Nairobi (or another capital city in the area of operation), ability to travel internationally, and ability to travel to remote rural locations in East Africa.

Reports To: STRYDE Regional Program Manager

Location: East Africa

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