Compassion International Jobs 2017

Compassion International, an International Evangelical Development Organisation, urgently seeks Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist II for its Ghana field office.

Job Description

Job Title: Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist II

The key responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Maintains a personal relationship with jesus christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compansion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer
• Acts as an advocate for children -raising the awareness of the needs, neglect, nurture and potential of children in poverty and challenging and enabling those witin one’s influence to greater involvement and effectiveness on behalf of children
• Supports overall holistic child development and provides ongoing subject matter expertise in using high quality data to measure program inputs, outputs, outcomes. Aids partnership facilitators, program support team and church partners by providing coaching and knowledge within monitoring and evaluation. Stays current in field of expertise including industry standards, national policies and best practices
• Utilize multiple tools and instruments that enable the partners and the program team to conduct empirical assessment through baseline surveys at the onset of partnerships monitoring and evaluation reports, analyzes high quality baseline/needs assessment data to inform program design
• Evaluates general partner compliance and adherence to standards, procedures and policies related to program quality. Works the partnership facilitators and the program support team to provide information on intervention milestones realization, financial report status, child development milestone monitoring, partner maturity progress and such other programmatic aspects that would lead to the realization of partnership outcomes
• Monitors partnership dashboards to track critical program dimensions and performance and enables the National Office to see meaningful improvements or decline in performance. conducts simple analysis and interpretation of dashboard metrics movement and makes recommendations to the partership facilitator
• Is responsible for budgeting and planning for baseline surveys and other monitoring and evaluation activities in the National office
• May provide expertise to other professional and support staff in the monitoring and evaluation discipline

Qualification Required & Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
• ExperienceL At least 3 years of experience working in this position or field
• Work environment: Office – Standard office environment
• Physical Demands: Sitting, standing and/or walking for up to 8 hours per day
• Travel requirement: may be required to travel up to 10% of normal schedule

Essential job functional competencies

• Strong understanding of holistic child development
• Effective communication & collaboration skills
• Data analysis and visualisation skills, including advanced Microsoft Excel, Tableau, knowledge of salesforce is an added advantage
• Understanding of high quality data and the importance of strong data collection & interpretation principles
• Strong critical thinking
Location: Accra

How to Apply

Qualified applicants should forward a copy of their current CV, cover letter and and references to: [email protected]

Closing Date: 15 December, 2017