Monitoring Evaluation Officer
Trócaire, Sierra Leone

Trócaire works in partnership with local organisations in developing countries and with people in Ireland to tackle the root causes of poverty and injustice. Together, we create positive and lasting change. Trócaire works in up to 20 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Our work is rooted in Catholic Social Teaching and our values of Solidarity, Courage, Participation, Perseverance and Accountability.

In Sierra Leone, Trócaire works to achieve climate and environmental justice; ensure women and girls’ protection, voice amp; influence; and save lives and protect human dignity. Trócaire supports work on the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence, women’s political participation and leadership, sustainable livelihoods and economic empowerment, natural resource management and environmental conservation, and humanitarian preparedness and response.

Trócaire works exclusively with local partners and actively supports localised development and humanitarian aid. Supporting local civil society organisations to strengthen their organisational, institutional, financial, technical, and managerial capacities is core to Trócaire’s partnership approach in Sierra Leone. Trócaire’s Sierra Leone country programme also works closely with, contributing to and drawing support from, Trócaire’s global hub on partnership and localisation based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Trócaire Sierra Leone is currently seeking to recruit a Monitoring amp; Evaluation Officer based in Freetown with frequent travel to other districts.

The Monitoring amp; Evaluation Officer will be responsible for the monitoring and ensuring high quality and timely inputs, and for ensuring that the project maintains its strategic vision and that its activities result in the achievement of its intended outputs in a cost effective and timely manner.

The Mamp;E officer will support the Mamp;E Manager in designing and implementing the Mamp;E activities of Trócaire; assisting the Mamp;E Manager in preparing Quarterly/Annual reports on project progress and will monitor the project activities on a regular basis, developing and maintaining a comprehensive Mamp;E system and will be responsible for the collection amp; analysis of different data in relation to the project activities.

For the candidate with the required experience and passion for the role, Trócaire offers a competitive package of salary and benefits. Only national candidates are eligible for this role and women are strongly encouraged to apply.

This is a fixed contract for 1 year and is based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and the possibility of renewal. This role is contingent on funding.

Requirements

Technical support

• Provide MEAL technical support on all Trócaire projects for timely implementation of all project MEAL activities as outlined in the project AMELPs.
• In collaboration with partners, collect data on a regular basis to measure achievement against the performance indicators.
• Check all aspects of data quality with partners and support partners accordingly in this regard.
• Support all Trócaire project progress reporting, midterm reviews and endline evaluations.
• Ensure Trócaire’s main data storage space i.e., Salesforce is up to date with all project data for all Trócaire projects.
• Work with the MEAL Manager in rolling out all Trócaire standard data collection and analysis tools especially for the ICSP.
• Maintain and administer the MEAL database and analyse all MEAL related data.
• Support the application of the Data Protection principles to general data collection, analysis, usage and storage of all Trócaire project data.
• Provide technical support to the Project Team on measuring reach including the annual collection and reporting of reach at country level.
• Support the Project Team to use Mamp;E learnings to inform and adapt implementation.

• Support the Project Team and partners in strategic targeting of project participants in line with organisational and donor standards.
• Support partners in using technology more specific to CommCare for MEAL data collection activities like assessments.
• Conduct routine monitoring visits to the project catchment areas where Trócaire Projects are implemented.Assist in the development of reports in close coordination with colleagues and partners.

Strengthening MEAL related partner capacity

• Together with the MEAL Manager, provide training and technical advice on monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning to project staff, including tool selection, data collection, analysis and interpretation including qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
• Monitor the i

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