Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Role

ETG Climate Solutions is looking for a dedicated M&E Officer to lead monitoring, verification and reporting of Agroforestry Project activities in Malawi. The M&E Officer will be responsible for designing and implementing the M&E activities of the Agroforestry Project, including carbon project activities, and assisting the Project Manager in preparing reports on project progress. He/she will monitor the project activities on a regular basis; develop and maintain the MIS of the project and will be responsible for the collection & analysis of different data in relation to the project activities.

Responsibilities

Core duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Design the project M&E system, including the logframe, indicators and guidelines and tools for efficient data collection and analysis
• Assist and train other project staff in understating M&E guidelines, protocols and tools
• Conduct and coordinate quantitative and qualitative data collection campaigns, covering both biophysical and socio-economic topics, using digital data collection tools
• Clean raw data, assess data quality and analyze/ visualize data using standard software (MS Excel) and statistical applications
• Assist with the production of regular detailed progress reports to the Project Manager
• Coordinate collection and quality check of georeferenced (GPS-based) polygons covering all agroforestry implementation sites
• Prepare the M&E budget and workplans for agroforestry project and carbon monitoring activities
• Lead proper data and metadata storage & management of all M&E data
• Provide advice to the Managers on improving project performance using M&E findings.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Project Manager

Required Qualifications

• A degree in monitoring & evaluation, statistics, natural sciences, natural resource management, remote sensing or related field
• A minimum of 3 years’ M&E experience working in relevant sector with smallholder farmers in Malawi
• Experience in developing logical frameworks (logframes), work plans, SMART indicators, milestones and targets
• Experience with biophysical data collection (e.g. planted seedling survival & vegetation assessments) and socio-economic data collection (e.g. household surveys, focus group discussions, key informant interviews)
• Experience with digital data collections tools (e.g. ODK, KoboCollect, GIS Cloud)
• Computer literate and proficient in use of Windows Office (especially Excel, Word and Teams)
• Experience in handling and manipulating spatial data & GIS software (e.g. QGIS, ArcGIS)
• Experience with dataset cleaning & quality control
• Experience with (statistical) data analysis methods and software (e.g. SPSS, R) is a plus
• Experience with data processing (analysis, producing graphs & reports)
• Demonstrable skills in coordinating, training, reporting and communicating
• Fluent in English (both speaking and writing)