Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant at Feed The Future Haiti Chanje Lavi Plantè

Job Description:

The M&E assistant will be responsible for supporting the M&E Specialist in the development and the implementation of the Feed the Future Haiti Chanje Lavi Plantè project’s Monitoring and Evaluation Plan. He / She will:
• Support project monitoring and evaluation tasks (planning, coordination of monitoring activities, training, data collection, cleaning and analysis);
• Be responsible to collect, compile, check, sort and analyze qualitative and quantitative data about ongoing field activities according to the reporting guidelines;
• Support work to ensure that accurate and complete monitoring, evaluation and data collection, storage systems, records and files are set up, maintained and updated;
• Support training for the project staff as required on data collection and monitoring;
• Identify gaps and facilitate development of M&E-related capacities among colleagues and stakeholders to ensure participation, enable ownership and facilitate quality of data collection, management and use;
• Conduct field visits and provide full feedback from field staff on the M&E under request of M&E Specialist;
• Ensure that project feedback, results and lessons learnt are effectively fed back to inform adjustments and improvements in project approaches, scale - up and delivery;
• Update and maintain MIS database regularly;

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Economics or Statistics Sciences, or a related field (with monitoring and evaluation subject components analysis throughout the project to verify achievement of results);
• At least one year experience working in monitoring and evaluation of development projects funded by international donors, especially USAID;
• Preferably a good experience of project’s implementation in Haiti, especially in the agricultural sector;
• Strong analytical skills and computer skills in Microsoft Office (Word and Excel. Knowledge in Access is a plus;
• Solid writing and communication skills. Fluency in French, and English;
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize effectively, to convey results to non-technical stakeholders, and to generate interest in the use of M&E results and help staff to make programmatic improvements desired;
• Demonstrated interest in development issues and practice;
• Strong personal initiative, resourcefulness and capacity to work individually;
• Proven ability to work as part of a team;
• Strong problem solving skills;
• Interest and commitment to gender equality in development.