Monitoring & Evaluations Analyst (STRATA / Project Planning /Data Analysis / STATS) - Muramvya, Burundi

Job Description:

Our client is a non-profit social enterprise that is looking to hire a Monitoring & Evaluations Analyst based in Burundi, all French speaking African nationals are encouraged to apply. The individual will directly manage 2 staff, the Field Coordinator who oversees the activities in the field, and the Project Specialist who prepares surveys and part of the analysis. They will indirectly oversee a team of 30+ local staff. The individual will be reporting to the Global MEL Deputy Director (Currently based in Kigali) and the Burundi Impact Lead (The Impact Division oversees two interrelated departments: Monitoring and Evaluation + Product Innovations).

The client is a non-profit social enterprise that supplies financing and training to help smallholders grow their way out of hunger and build lasting pathways to prosperity. Our client supplies Africa’s farmers with everything they need to grow more food and earn more money.

Our client is growing quickly and are soon to represent Africa’s largest network of smallholder farmers. Today, they serve over 1 million farm families - with more than 5 million people living in those families. It is forecasted that the farmers they serve will produce enough surplus food to feed another 5 million of their neighbors. In 2020, they served 1.3 million farmers directly through their full-service program in Eastern and Southern Africa. The company works directly with farmers throughout the year, which generally includes the following, providing quality farm products on credit, which farmers repay over the full growing season. Delivering these products within walking distance of farmers’ homes, in time for planting. Training farmers on the latest agricultural practices and how to sell any harvest surplus.

Responsibilities:

• Effective management of programme and project planning, and monitoring systems and processes
• Effective management of programme reporting systems and processes
• Effective management and follow up on programme and project reviews and evaluations
• Facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing
• Support the development and implementation an MEL strategy (per the approved MEL Plan) outlining M&E systems for data collection, knowledge management, impact assessments, learning activities and reporting in compliance with the requirements provided in the activity contract.
• Collection and analysis of data to ensure the timely completion of M&E activities.
• Facilitate Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) strategies to support the use of data and information from the M&E system for real-time decision-making to improve project implementation
• Regularly review monitoring data and help organize periodic learning days and annual learning summits with district staff to help managers identify successes and make decisions about adapting activities and approaches to achieve results.
• Collaborate with the Finance, Operations, and Compliance Unit to help develop a system to track and report cost-related data for each program element to reinforce financial and budgetary strategies and allocations during planning periods.

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• Bachelor’s Degree or relevant degree, strong knowledge of Data Analytics (Statistics)
• Minimum 5 years of experience working on monitoring, evaluation and learning for donor funded projects
• Must have experience using Strata (statistical software package)
• Must be willing to relocate to Burundi
• Willingness to collaborate, innovate and ability to think systematically.
• Demonstrated ability to interact and communicate with wide range of stakeholders both verbally and in writing.
• Proven experience in managing multiple and completing tasks while maintaining quality of deliverables within deadlines.
• Strong communication skills and ability to write clear and concise reports in French and English

If you wish to apply for the position, please send your CV to [email protected] .

Please visit www.caglobalint.com for more exciting opportunities.

Jamie Adams

Recruitment Specialist

CA Finance

CA Global will respond to short-listed candidates only. If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful however your CV will be kept on our database for any other suitable positions.

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