Plan
Plan is an international humanitarian child centered community development organization, without religious, political or government affiliation. Plan is committed to protecting and promoting child rights, and to improving the lives and futures of poor children, their families and communities through a child-centered community development approach.
Closing date: 23 May 2010
Location: Kenya
Location: Kenya
BASED IN THARAKA DEVELOPMENT AREA
Key responsibilities
- Facilitate development of DA’s participatory monitoring and evaluation systems.
- Train staff and partners in basic M&E processes (gathering data analyse and decision making) to develop programs
- Institutionalisation of corporate monitoring and evaluation tools at DA level.
- Provide measurement and assessment of performance in order to effectively manage outcomes and outputs of results
- Maintenance/administration of the corporate projects monitoring system.
- Consolidation/sharing of successes (best practices) and failures on a regular basis.
- Facilitate community based information sharing and dissemination of evaluations and other special studies
- Facilitate CBO capacity assessment
- Enhance children participation in planning, program design, monitoring and evaluation
Qualifications, experience and skills
- At least a Bachelor’s degree in social sciences (sociology, anthropology, economics)
- 3- 5 years hands on experience in community based monitoring & evaluation.
- Experience in participatory approaches such as PLA, PRA
- Demonstrated skills and experience in use of statistical packages(SPSS, EPI info)
- Analytical, negotiation, facilitation and influencing skills
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary and multicultural environment and communities at all levels
- Innovative and independent thinker
- Knowledge and experience in Most Significant Change (MSC) approach will be an added advantage
How to apply
If you meet the requirements for any of the above positions and would like to be a part of it in our commitment to children, please send a detailed and updated curriculum vitae, current remuneration and contacts of three professional references, including you current/latest line manager to jobs.plankenya@plan–international.org to be received by latest 23rd May 2010. Your email (OR ENVELOPE) should bear the title “MONITORING AND EVALUATION FACILITATOR – THARAKA” as the subject. Reference Code: RW_85CA82-6