Organizational Context:
LASPE FOUNDATION is a leading humanitarian organization dedicated to fighting poverty and social injustice with a special emphasis on women and girls. LASPE FOUNDATION Tanzania is part of LASPE FOUNDATION International, whose vision is to seek a world of hope, tolerance, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. LASPE FOUNDATION International is a global force and a partner of choice within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. We are known everywhere for our unshakable commitment to the dignity of people. LASPE FOUNDATION Tanzania and partners contribute to the empowerment of the most marginalized and vulnerable rural women and girls to exercise their rights.
Job Summary
CARE Tanzania, in collaboration with Arusha Community Bank Limited (ACBL), is implementing the Micro-Lead Expansion Program funded by UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF.) This is a three years program aiming at providing access to financial services through Village Savings and Loan Groups (VSLs) to over70, 000 financially excluded people and access to formal financial services to around 50,000 members. Linkages will be mainly for saving products and target clientele will be low income financially excluded rural families in Kilimanjaro region. Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will be responsible for managing the program’s Management Information System (MIS) and extracting data ready for posting to the SAVIX on a quarterly basis; manage program information and knowledge system; building capacity of other program staff, Village Agents and Franchisees in the area of MIS data collection; lead the finalization and adaptation of data collection tools to inform program outcomes; support the PIM in developing quarterly and annual narrative program reports; lead program level monitoring, reviews and documentation of lessons learn, good practices and developing case studies for the linkage component.
Key Responsibilities and Tasks
Job Responsibility #1: Implementing the program initiative’s monitoring, evaluation, impact measurement, and reporting system
35% of time
· Participating and coordinating testing and adapting, in collaboration with other program team of staff and partners, the program’s theory of change;
· Developing or reviewing, in collaboration with program initiative’s team of staff and partners, program initiative’s monitoring and evaluation plan;
· Taking lead in program initiative’s monitoring and evaluation events such as baselines, mid-term reviews, final evaluation and specific studies involving the project;
· Acquiring and understanding monitoring, evaluation and impact measurement policies, standards and tools of donors, LASPE FOUNDATION Tanzania, and LASPE FOUNDATION International so as to use them in his/her work;
· Preparing monitoring reports as well as assisting his/her supervisor in preparing project’s quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports and keeping them for reflective purposes;
· Being conversant with LASPE FOUNDATION’s Program Quality Assessment Tool (PQAT) and participating in the program quality assessment events involving CA program initiative;
· Preparing and/or facilitating the preparation of the program initiative review and evaluation reports;
· Facilitating the engagement of program initiative reviewers and evaluators, including writing their Terms of Reference (TOR) and providing them with the logistical support they need as carry out their contracted duties.
Job Responsibility #2: Implementing program initiative information and knowledge system; 35% of time
· Developing or reviewing, in collaboration with program initiative team of staff and partners, the program initiative’s learning plan;
· Developing and maintaining program initiative’s database and updating it accordingly;
· Leading program initiative’s efforts to analyze and reflect on the data and information to determine the impacts it is making in the lives of its beneficiaries and for improved program initiative performance;
· Leading program initiative’s efforts to document challenges/obstacles and lessons and best practices it is learning, including their application for improved program initiative and organizational performance as well as;
· Packaging and disseminating quality program initiative information to different audiences and for different purposes.
Job Responsibility #3: Supporting effective engagement of program initiative’s team of staff and partner in the monitoring and evaluation activities; 25% of time
· Designing and facilitating forward accountability mechanisms to monitor our program quality and impact with those we work with.
· Conducting or facilitating program initiative’s training needs assessment as well as designing, in collaboration with other stakeholders, capacity building plans;
· Conducting or facilitating capacity building events for program initiative team of staff and partners in accordance with the capacity building plans;
· Assisting program initiative team of staff and partners to track progress toward program initiative indicators and in developing and/or adapting monitoring tools such as questionnaires, recording forms, checklists and interview guides based on the monitoring and evaluation plan;
· Assisting and advising program initiative’s team of staff and partners in producing quality activity implementation reports.
· Working with team of staff and partners to identify and clarify key emerging advocacy issues and facilitate the development and implementation of advocacy initiatives
Job Responsibility #5: Promote Gender Equality (including the following) All the time
· Practice a behavior that is consistent with LASPE FOUNDATION’s core values and promotion of gender and diversity goals;
· Collect data on gender related issues in program area;
· Carry out data analysis, interpretation of the gender related information, writing reports to inform on gender issues, and proposing appropriate interventions to address them
Job Responsibility #6: Perform Other Duties as Assigned including 5% of the time
· Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor
Competencies
· Excellence: Sets high standards of performance for self and/or others; successfully completes assignments; sets standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed; ensures interactions and transactions are ethical and convey integrity.
· Respect: Behaves in a manner that reflects a true belief in and appreciation for the dignity and potential of all human beings. Gaining other people’s confidence and setting an environment of trust and openness.
· Diversity: Promotes, values and respects each individual’s unique qualities, background, race, culture, age, gender, disability, values, lifestyle, perspectives or interests; creates and maintains a work environment that promotes diversity.
· Integrity: Maintains social, ethical, and organizational norms; firmly adheres to codes of conduct and ethical principles inherent to LASPE FOUNDATION.
· Planning and Organizing: Establishes courses of action for self and others to ensure that work is completed efficiently and effectively in accordance with LASPE FOUNDATION’s core values.
· Communicating with Impact: Diplomatically, logically and clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the recipient / audience and helps them understand and retain their message.
· Adaptability: Effectively manages changing environments in the organization; maintains effectiveness when dealing with multiple and conflicting priorities across different cultural settings or during emergency and crisis situations.
· Initiating Action: Takes prompt action to accomplish objectives; takes decisive action to achieve goals in times of uncertainty or in fluid contexts; is proactive.
· Building Commitment: Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifies one’s own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals involved.
· Contribute to Team Success: Actively participates as a member of a team or work unit to move the team/unit toward the completion of shared goals.
Education/Training
Required
· Bachelor in Development Studies, Social Science or related field;
Desired:
· Masters in Development Studies, Social Science or related field;
Experience
Required
· Minimum 1 year of work experience in a monitoring and evaluation role for a project or non governmental organization;
Desired
· Strong prior experience with community participatory surveys;
· At least 2 years in development or community work
MODE OF APPLICATION: Apply through lasye@yahoo.com to Country Director by 15 November 2013 with a motivation letter and a detailed Resume with 3 referees;
LASPE FOUNDATION is a leading humanitarian organization dedicated to fighting poverty and social injustice with a special emphasis on women and girls. LASPE FOUNDATION Tanzania is part of LASPE FOUNDATION International, whose vision is to seek a world of hope, tolerance, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. LASPE FOUNDATION International is a global force and a partner of choice within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. We are known everywhere for our unshakable commitment to the dignity of people. LASPE FOUNDATION Tanzania and partners contribute to the empowerment of the most marginalized and vulnerable rural women and girls to exercise their rights.
Job Summary
CARE Tanzania, in collaboration with Arusha Community Bank Limited (ACBL), is implementing the Micro-Lead Expansion Program funded by UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF.) This is a three years program aiming at providing access to financial services through Village Savings and Loan Groups (VSLs) to over70, 000 financially excluded people and access to formal financial services to around 50,000 members. Linkages will be mainly for saving products and target clientele will be low income financially excluded rural families in Kilimanjaro region. Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will be responsible for managing the program’s Management Information System (MIS) and extracting data ready for posting to the SAVIX on a quarterly basis; manage program information and knowledge system; building capacity of other program staff, Village Agents and Franchisees in the area of MIS data collection; lead the finalization and adaptation of data collection tools to inform program outcomes; support the PIM in developing quarterly and annual narrative program reports; lead program level monitoring, reviews and documentation of lessons learn, good practices and developing case studies for the linkage component.
Key Responsibilities and Tasks
Job Responsibility #1: Implementing the program initiative’s monitoring, evaluation, impact measurement, and reporting system
35% of time
· Participating and coordinating testing and adapting, in collaboration with other program team of staff and partners, the program’s theory of change;
· Developing or reviewing, in collaboration with program initiative’s team of staff and partners, program initiative’s monitoring and evaluation plan;
· Taking lead in program initiative’s monitoring and evaluation events such as baselines, mid-term reviews, final evaluation and specific studies involving the project;
· Acquiring and understanding monitoring, evaluation and impact measurement policies, standards and tools of donors, LASPE FOUNDATION Tanzania, and LASPE FOUNDATION International so as to use them in his/her work;
· Preparing monitoring reports as well as assisting his/her supervisor in preparing project’s quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports and keeping them for reflective purposes;
· Being conversant with LASPE FOUNDATION’s Program Quality Assessment Tool (PQAT) and participating in the program quality assessment events involving CA program initiative;
· Preparing and/or facilitating the preparation of the program initiative review and evaluation reports;
· Facilitating the engagement of program initiative reviewers and evaluators, including writing their Terms of Reference (TOR) and providing them with the logistical support they need as carry out their contracted duties.
Job Responsibility #2: Implementing program initiative information and knowledge system; 35% of time
· Developing or reviewing, in collaboration with program initiative team of staff and partners, the program initiative’s learning plan;
· Developing and maintaining program initiative’s database and updating it accordingly;
· Leading program initiative’s efforts to analyze and reflect on the data and information to determine the impacts it is making in the lives of its beneficiaries and for improved program initiative performance;
· Leading program initiative’s efforts to document challenges/obstacles and lessons and best practices it is learning, including their application for improved program initiative and organizational performance as well as;
· Packaging and disseminating quality program initiative information to different audiences and for different purposes.
Job Responsibility #3: Supporting effective engagement of program initiative’s team of staff and partner in the monitoring and evaluation activities; 25% of time
· Designing and facilitating forward accountability mechanisms to monitor our program quality and impact with those we work with.
· Conducting or facilitating program initiative’s training needs assessment as well as designing, in collaboration with other stakeholders, capacity building plans;
· Conducting or facilitating capacity building events for program initiative team of staff and partners in accordance with the capacity building plans;
· Assisting program initiative team of staff and partners to track progress toward program initiative indicators and in developing and/or adapting monitoring tools such as questionnaires, recording forms, checklists and interview guides based on the monitoring and evaluation plan;
· Assisting and advising program initiative’s team of staff and partners in producing quality activity implementation reports.
· Working with team of staff and partners to identify and clarify key emerging advocacy issues and facilitate the development and implementation of advocacy initiatives
Job Responsibility #5: Promote Gender Equality (including the following) All the time
· Practice a behavior that is consistent with LASPE FOUNDATION’s core values and promotion of gender and diversity goals;
· Collect data on gender related issues in program area;
· Carry out data analysis, interpretation of the gender related information, writing reports to inform on gender issues, and proposing appropriate interventions to address them
Job Responsibility #6: Perform Other Duties as Assigned including 5% of the time
· Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor
Competencies
· Excellence: Sets high standards of performance for self and/or others; successfully completes assignments; sets standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed; ensures interactions and transactions are ethical and convey integrity.
· Respect: Behaves in a manner that reflects a true belief in and appreciation for the dignity and potential of all human beings. Gaining other people’s confidence and setting an environment of trust and openness.
· Diversity: Promotes, values and respects each individual’s unique qualities, background, race, culture, age, gender, disability, values, lifestyle, perspectives or interests; creates and maintains a work environment that promotes diversity.
· Integrity: Maintains social, ethical, and organizational norms; firmly adheres to codes of conduct and ethical principles inherent to LASPE FOUNDATION.
· Planning and Organizing: Establishes courses of action for self and others to ensure that work is completed efficiently and effectively in accordance with LASPE FOUNDATION’s core values.
· Communicating with Impact: Diplomatically, logically and clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the recipient / audience and helps them understand and retain their message.
· Adaptability: Effectively manages changing environments in the organization; maintains effectiveness when dealing with multiple and conflicting priorities across different cultural settings or during emergency and crisis situations.
· Initiating Action: Takes prompt action to accomplish objectives; takes decisive action to achieve goals in times of uncertainty or in fluid contexts; is proactive.
· Building Commitment: Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifies one’s own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals involved.
· Contribute to Team Success: Actively participates as a member of a team or work unit to move the team/unit toward the completion of shared goals.
Education/Training
Required
· Bachelor in Development Studies, Social Science or related field;
Desired:
· Masters in Development Studies, Social Science or related field;
Experience
Required
· Minimum 1 year of work experience in a monitoring and evaluation role for a project or non governmental organization;
Desired
· Strong prior experience with community participatory surveys;
· At least 2 years in development or community work
MODE OF APPLICATION: Apply through lasye@yahoo.com to Country Director by 15 November 2013 with a motivation letter and a detailed Resume with 3 referees;
