Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning at Happy Family Rwanda Organization (HFRO): (Deadline 17 November 2023)

HAPPY FAMILY RWANDA ORGANIZATION (HFRO) is a local nongovernmental organization operating in Rwanda and registered in Rwanda Governance Board (RGB), its registration number is No 779/RGB/LP/11/2021, and working in the area of Health, Education and Economy transforming for youth particular Girls and adolescent mothers.

Happy Family Rwanda Organization (HFRO) is a compassionate NGO dedicated to creating positive change and making a lasting impact in communities worldwide. It believes in the power of collective action and the ability of individuals to transform lives through compassion, generosity, and empowerment.

Over the years HAPPY FAMILY RWANDA ORGANIZATION (HFRO) has affected the lives of community members especially Girls, adolescents, youth, women, and children positively through effective community mobilization, outreaches, Sanitation and hygiene, demand creation for health facilities services uptake for pregnant women and women of reproductive age especially the First-time Mothers (FTMs), promoting and enhancing Adolescents Youths and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights of Young Women and girls through youth-friendly services uptake as well as ensuring positive Maternal and newborn health outcomes for women and girls of reproductive age and promoting accountability.

Job Summary

The MEAL Manager develops, implements, and continuously improves monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems for all project activities, while making sure that the project has a child-friendly and accessible Community Accountability and Reporting Mechanism. He/she will be responsible for ensuring the development and operationalization of high-quality MEAL systems and reporting on a multi-sectoral integrated project. Will incorporate best practices to ensure information collected is accurate, timely, and disseminated appropriately in high-quality reports. The MEAL Manager will use these findings to improve the program and achieve the objectives. They will also be actively involved in promoting learning through documentation of lessons learned and developing approaches for community analysis and using data for decision-making.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Technical Leadership:

• Provide leadership, training, and mentoring in the development of M&E Plans, M&E tools, survey design, methodology, data analysis, and other skills required for assessing the impact of the program.
• Lead and/or collaborate with external evaluators on the design and roll-out of the program baseline, midline, and end-line and evaluations, while setting up effective systems for learning.
• Design tools to collect sex and age-disaggregated data and use gender-sensitive data collection methods to understand and respond to program results with diverse participants.
• Participate in the facilitation of country and sector-level strategic planning sessions, assisting the program in the development of its annual plans.

1. Information Management:

• Lead the adoption of a holistic program-level M&E system that harnesses open-source software and flexible cloud solutions to more accurately collect, monitor, and verify program activities and ensure they are aligned with the country’s strategic and annual plans.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and recommendations to ensure that the M&E systems meet the needs of the program.
• Maintain a comprehensive schedule of reports for the program and review the program reports to ensure that reports contain accurate, clear, and high-quality data and are presented in the proper format.
• Develop program and operational reporting templates that facilitate the acquisition, aggregation, and flow of information in programs.

1. Capacity Building and Mentoring:

• Develop and oversee the implementation of the M&E staff and partner capacity-building strategy that promotes a culture of learning through systematic analysis and reflection of program data.
• Build the capacity of all relevant team members to develop and maintain an excellent M&E system, including regular reflection and analysis of program monitoring data.
• Contribute to the knowledge management with best practices in M&E and ensure that it is accessible to all staff and partners.
• Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.

1. Internal And External Coordination:

Active contributor and collaborator with regional and global counterparts to promote the use of M&E best practices to strengthen linkages with other internal resources, including learning platforms.

1. Safeguarding Responsibilities

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals of safeguarding implementation.
• Act as a key source of support, guidance, and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote, and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do the same

Education and Experience:

• University Degree in Social Science or Social Studies, statistics, mathematics, or equivalent experience in monitoring and evaluating program activities and outputs, in comparison to program objectives.
• Minimum of 3 years work experience in project monitoring and evaluation, preference for M&E for Youth, Education, and Livelihood Programs.
• Prior experience in carrying out surveys, using different methods and software, and undertaking assessments are essential.
• Understanding of qualitative and quantitative indicators.
• Creative and out-of-the-box thinking.
• Excellent Analytical and report-writing skills.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English is required.
• Computer skills – word-processing, and data analysis software experience like SPSS is required.
• Computer database experience preferred.
• Experience in the development of Logical Framework Analyses and in the conducting of Participatory Rural Appraisal is extremely desirable.

The interested candidates who fulfill the above requirements should submit/send their application letters/CV which must include the following information:

• Motivation letter of your interest in documentation and learning
• Updated CV/resume
• Certificates or any other documents that prove your experience
• Contact information for at least two professional references

Qualified candidates should submit above mentioned documents in English using the following link https://hfro.org/career not later than 17 November 2023 at 6:00 pm.  Only shortlisted candidates will be notified of the next steps. Interested and qualified persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

NSENGIMANA Rafiki Justin

Founder & Executive Director

Happy Family Rwanda Organization