Junior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at GIZ Rwanda: (Deadline 10 December 2021 )

Junior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at GIZ Rwanda: (Deadline 10 December 2021)

Internal Vacancy Announcement

Junior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

for

The Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a federally owned international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. GIZ has worked in Rwanda for over 30 years. The primary objectives between the Government of Rwanda and the Federal Republic of Germany are poverty reduction and the promotion of sustainable development. To achieve these objectives, GIZ Rwanda is active in the sectors of Decentralization and Good Governance, Economic Development and Employment Promotion, Energy, and ICT (Information and Communications Technology). 

Creating sufficient opportunities for employment and income generation remains a major challenge on Africa’s as well as Rwanda’s path to sustainable development. The Government of Rwanda has set itself the ambitious target of creating 214,000 jobs annually until 2024. In the face of the country’s growing population and young demographic, this creation of jobs is essential for the population’s future and economic security.

Guided by the principle that targeted investments create jobs, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) launched the Special Initiative (SI) on Training and Job Creation. Under the brand Invest for Jobs, the Special Initiative seeks to promote investments by European and African companies in selected countries across the continent, including Rwanda. It also seeks to improve working conditions, increase opportunities for professional development or vocational training and preserve jobs that have been put at risk due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 Location: Kigali

Fixed-term: one (1) year

Position: one (1) position

A. Responsibilities

 The Junior Monitoring and Evaluation Expert is responsible for:

Reporting to the senior monitoring and evaluation (M&E) expert, the overall responsibility of the junior M&E advisor is to provide ongoing support to the monitoring and evaluation team to ensure deep insight and data quality for the Special Initiative on training and job creation both pro-actively and in response to regular and ad-hoc requests. The junior M&E advisor will require solid technical proficiency, communication skills, and data analysis experience, and the ability to work within a team. The junior M&E advisor is a young professional who is looking to advance their career in monitoring and evaluation. Proficiency in English and data analysis skills are required.

B.Tasks

The Junior Monitoring and Evaluation Expert performs the following tasks:

1. Development and Implementation of the M&E System

• Participate in developing and implementing the SI M&E calendar to generate regular information related to the progress of the project implementation
• Provide required assistance in coordination of data collection activities as needed
• Assist in the development of data collection tools.

2. Data Management

• Assist in tracking the project’s indicator results in close coordination with the SI project’s implementing team
• Support data collection, verification, and compilation as stipulated in the M&E calendar
• Assist in reviewing and compiling monitoring reports, project progress reports, etc.
• Update and maintain the SI project database.

3. M&E Development Support

• Support the M&E team in providing technical support to staff members for all M&E related activities
• Assist the M&E team to build the capacities of the implementing partners for enhancing skills and knowledge for proper quality data collection and reporting.
• Contribute to designing Terms of Reference, training materials, and knowledge products related to the program’s M&E System.

4. Quality Assurance

• Assist in conducting data quality checks for baseline, tracer, and end-line studies
• Support the M&E team to ensure that reports from partners/consultants are complete and meet the GIZ ’s standards and quality requirements.

5. Reporting and Documentation

• Assist in quarterly, special, and annual reporting
• Prepare the SI quarterly strategy workshops
• Supply of numbers, data, and facts for communication purposes.

6. Collaboration in cross-sectional tasks and, as required, support in the processing of other technical topics

C. Required qualifications, competencies, and experience

 1. Education and Knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree in the field of IT, Statistics, Economics, Project management or development studies or related fields.

2. Professional experience

• At least one year of experience in research, monitoring, and evaluation or project management, preferably in an international development context
• Experience in report writing, and application and designing of tools for data collection, analysis, and production of reports
• Good interpersonal, communications, and facilitation skills
• Knowledge of managing databases;
• Very good working knowledge of ICT and computer applications (e.g., MS Office); good knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint essential
• Excellent knowledge of English, orally and written; ability to express oneself in clear sentences; being able to write precise English texts with correct grammar and spelling is an absolute must
• Excellent knowledge of Kinyarwanda.

Interested candidates should submit their application (motivation letter, updated CV, certificates, and references) until 10^th December 2021 at 4:00 PM, by e-mail to [email protected] The email attachment (max. size 2 MB) should be a PDF file. Please quote the job title in the subject

GIZ is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified candidates. This includes the provision of reasonable accommodation, if needed, in order to participate in the job application and interview process and to perform essential job functions. Please, let us know if you have any particular requirements should you be invited for assessment/interview or that you wish us to take into account when considering your application. Women and persons with disabilities are particularly encouraged to apply.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for test and interview.

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