Under the supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Coordinator, the M&E Officer will have the following responsibilities:

Responsibilities or duties

Manage the day-to-day implementation of all M&E activities within the SET project

Support design, analysis and writing up of M&E products

Tasks

Under the supervision of the M&E Coordinator, the M&E Officer will perform the following tasks:

Monitoring

• Support the design and potential revisions of the monitoring system in close collaboration with the national M&E coordinator
• Manage the overall data collection, support analysis and prepare draft reports.
• Ensure timely monitoring of project activities and availability of quality data for decision-making and reporting
• Ensure that all M&E tools and guidelines are up-to-date and accessible, as appropriate.
• Manage and update the project database and visualization dashboards
• Review, consolidate, and do basic analysis of collected data and information
• In close collaboration with the national M&E coordinator, lead the capacity development of project staff and partners on M&E practices, including usage of tools and ensuring data quality
• Work closely with and support the technical team with relevant information on progress, achievements, and challenges faced to facilitate evidence-based decision making for project implementation.

Evaluations and reports

• Support the design of studies in close collaboration with the M&E coordinator and manage their implementation
• Manage the implementation of studies, including evaluations
• Prepare inputs to evaluation and other study reports
• Prepare project related, written reports and presentations aligning with the logframe in collaboration with M&E coordinator, technical staff, and partners.

Learning

• Facilitate integration of knowledge management into the M&E system by documenting best practices, lessons learnt, innovative approaches, and challenges
• Organize data review, learning and reflection workshops internally and with project partners

Other tasks

• Work with the M&E Coordinator in establishing budgets and annual plans
• Provide inputs to SET reporting to the Government and SDC
• Integrate Swisscontact principles (gender equality, including marginalized groups, climate change resilience, etc) into the M&E system.
• Follow Swisscontact’s rules and procedures such as the Code of Conduct (CoC) and Country Manual.
• Perform other tasks as agreed with the M&E Coordinator.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

Bachelor’s degree in monitoring and evaluation, statistics, economics, computer science, data science, or related studies.

Experience needed

• First work experience in quantitative and/or qualitative research in monitoring and evaluation, preferably in development projects.
• Practical experience supporting or implementing M&E systems, including routine monitoring and reporting, is an advantage.
• Experience across the data value chain (data collection, cleaning, analysis, and visualisation).
• Experience using digital data collection tools (e.g. KoboToolbox, ODK or similar) is an asset.
• Experience managing project databases and basic data visualisation dashboards is an advantage.
• Exposure to supporting studies or evaluations (e.g. baseline, endline, tracer studies) is an asset.
• Experience supporting capacity development of staff or partners on M&E practices and data quality is an advantage.
• Interest in or basic understanding of learning, reflection, and evidence-based decision-making processes.
• Basic understanding of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and climate change considerations in project work.
• High attention to detail and strong commitment to data quality.
• Good level of oral and written English and Swahili

• Manage the day-to-day implementation of all M&E activities within the SET project
• Support design, analysis and writing up of M&E products
• Support the design and potential revisions of the monitoring system in close collaboration with the national M&E coordinator
• Manage the overall data collection, support analysis and prepare draft reports.
• Ensure timely monitoring of project activities and availability of quality data for decision-making and reporting
• Ensure that all M&E tools and guidelines are up-to-date and accessible, as appropriate.
• Manage and update the project database and visualization dashboards
• Review, consolidate, and do basic analysis of collected data and information
• In close collaboration with the national M&E coordinator, lead the capacity development of project staff and partners on M&E practices, including usage of tools and ensuring data quality
• Work closely with and support the technical team with relevant information on progress, achievements, and challenges faced to facilitate evidence-based decision making for project implementation.
• Support the design of studies in close collaboration with the M&E coordinator and manage their implementation
• Manage the implementation of studies, including evaluations
• Prepare inputs to evaluation and other study reports
• Prepare project related, written reports and presentations aligning with the logframe in collaboration with M&E coordinator, technical staff, and partners.
• Facilitate integration of knowledge management into the M&E system by documenting best practices, lessons learnt, innovative approaches, and challenges
• Organize data review, learning and reflection workshops internally and with project partners
• Work with the M&E Coordinator in establishing budgets and annual plans
• Provide inputs to SET reporting to the Government and SDC
• Integrate Swisscontact principles (gender equality, including marginalized groups, climate change resilience, etc) into the M&E system.
• Follow Swisscontact’s rules and procedures such as the Code of Conduct (CoC) and Country Manual.
• Perform other tasks as agreed with the M&E Coordinator.

• Data collection
• Data analysis
• Report writing
• Database management
• Data visualization
• Capacity development
• English (oral and written)
• Swahili (oral and written)

• Bachelor’s degree in monitoring and evaluation, statistics, economics, computer science, data science, or related studies.
• First work experience in quantitative and/or qualitative research in monitoring and evaluation, preferably in development projects.
• Practical experience supporting or implementing M&E systems, including routine monitoring and reporting, is an advantage.
• Experience across the data value chain (data collection, cleaning, analysis, and visualisation).
• Experience using digital data collection tools (e.g. KoboToolbox, ODK or similar) is an asset.
• Experience managing project databases and basic data visualisation dashboards is an advantage.
• Exposure to supporting studies or evaluations (e.g. baseline, endline, tracer studies) is an asset.
• Experience supporting capacity development of staff or partners on M&E practices and data quality is an advantage.
• Interest in or basic understanding of learning, reflection, and evidence-based decision-making processes.
• Basic understanding of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and climate change considerations in project work.
• High attention to detail and strong commitment to data quality.