Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor, Niger RFSA

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Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor, Niger RFSA

ACDI/VOCA is seeking a M&E Advisor for an upcoming Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in Niger funded by USAID. The anticipated program will use a multi-sectoral approach to strengthen the capacities of populations to combat malnutrition, reduce morbidity and mortality, promote economic growth, minimize disaster risks, improve food security, and adapt to climate change.

The M&E Advisor will oversee design and implementation of M&E strategies and will work with the Chief of Party, technical staff, USAID, and program partners. They will develop systems to track overall program and subaward activities, outputs, outcomes and results to ensure they are on track to meet the annual and life of project benchmarks and targets. The program is anticipated to start in 2025 and this position will be based in Niger.

Responsibilities

• Guide the technical direction of the M&E approach, strategy, and overall implementation
• Lead data collection, management of the data, analysis and display of the results
• Build capacity of M&E and technical staff in data collection, analysis, reporting, and dissemination, and ensure compliance with donor and ACDI/VOCA MEL policies
• Design and lead implementation of efficient and accurate data collection system and ensuring data quality
• Provide general oversight of the M&E database and dashboard platform, using it to track progress and trends, generate reports per USAID requirements, and conduct data quality checks
• Supervise M&E staff and oversee implementation of all M&E activities, including routine monitoring, annual surveys, case studies, and stakeholder workshops to refine approaches
• Prepare data analyses for PREPs, Annual Results Reports, and other required documents
• Oversee strengthening of M&E capacity of local organizations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, statistics, or relevant field is required; master’s degree is required.
• Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience designing and implementing M&E systems for donor-funded development programs.
• Demonstrated experience in building or strengthening monitoring and data management systems, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, survey and sample design, and effectively promoting evidence-based program management, collaboration, learning and adaptation (CLA).
• Proven knowledge- or experience about theories of change, logic models, food security indicators, M&E plans, data quality assurance, data utilization, and gender and youth integration into M&E.
• Expertise in developing and operationalizing a comprehensive M&E plan.
• Experience with program evaluations, either as a member of an implementing organization whose program was evaluated, or as a member of a research team conducting an evaluation.
• Knowledge of and experience with USAID M&E and reporting rules and regulations is highly desired.
• Familiarity with applying the Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) approach to management is desired.
• Experience working in Niger required.
• Fluency in English is required.

Nigerien nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.