THE ORGANIZATION

Yamba Malawi transforms children’s lives by empowering communities to break the cycle of poverty. We acknowledge that strained resources, poor safety nets, and limited caregiver capacity lead to poor childhood development outcomes, particularly during children’s first five years, and have lifelong effects. Limited financial literacy and insufficient access to formal financial services hinder community and caregivers efforts to invest in their children’s futures. And lack of economic opportunity creates a cycle of extreme poverty that increases childhood vulnerability and has lifelong effects on children’s growth, development, and happiness.

Yamba Malawi’s signature Childhoods and Livelihoods program uses a holistic 3-pronged approach to addressing these complex and interrelated set of challenges: 1. improving nurturing care and support for children through the strengthening of community safety nets and services, and increasing caregiver knowledge and skills in best practices for childhood wellbeing and early childhood development (ECD), 2. increasing access to financial knowledge and services, including training, savings and credit, and budgeting to improve the use of income on children’s existing and future need, and 3. improving economic resilience through diverse income generating activities that provide increased income to meet children’s basic needs.

Working at the household and community level, the Program includes a planned, time-bound sequence of activities that pairs the transfer of business assets with training, savings promotion, short-term income stabilization, and critical ECD and childhood wellbeing coaching that enables caregivers to plan beyond immediate needs and build foundations to improve their children’s futures.

The organization is seeking experienced professionals to contribute their high level of expertise to the organization and the program through the following positions:

POSITION : Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (1)

SUPERVISION RECEIVED : Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator

SUPERVISION EXERCISED : None

LOCATION : Chikwawa, Nsanje, Phalombe

THE POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will be responsible for maintaining a data collection system at district level, building capacity of community mentors in data collection and conducting ongoing data quality checks

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Implement, and maintain the project’s data model designed in conjunction with the M&E Manager in order to make it more effective for all users.
• Produce preliminary reports and dashboards on salesforce to be used as building blocks for tailor made dashboards and reports for Senior Management.
• Share monthly updates with field staff to facilitate reviews and discussions around continuous program performance.
• Develop and manage database tables for the project’s Complaints, Response and Feedback Mechanism, logging complaints and feedback in the database, and ensuring that complaints are directed to the appropriate stakeholders and\u00a0following up to ensure timely closure of issues.
• Update the project indicator performance tracking table (IPTT) on monthly basis.
• Carry out routine Data Quality Assessments
• Build capacity of project staff, district, and community partners on the MEAL system.
• Resolve problems, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, fine tuning and optimizing the performance of tasks and programs that access the database.
• liaison with the M&E Coordinator, build the capacity of field facilitators in the identification and development of impactful success stories, production of good quality reports that are focused on program results and accountability.
• Prepare information packs, infographics, factsheets, and one pager on program performance on weekly and monthly basis, or as need arises, for sharing with program stakeholders including the general community and program participants, implementing partners, and donors.
• Coordinate adaptation and implementation of quality benchmarks.
• Any other duties as assigned from time to time.

OTHER COMPETENCIES/ATTRIBUTES

• At least 5 years experience in setting up and managing district and community level M&E systems for Non-Profit Organisations
• Must adhere to set Child Protection Policy and Guidelines.
• Experience in the daily management of a cloud Database.
• Fluent in SQL, OQL, XQuery, and SQL/XML.
• Demonstrable skills in both qualitative and quantitative research.
• Demonstrable skills in managing electronic databases and survey data processing packages like DK, Kobo, COMM Care.
• Demonstrable skills in statistical analyses using STATA or SPSS.
• Experience with managing complaints and feedback mechanisms for project stakeholders
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Proficient Microsoft package skills required i.e., MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint
• Firm grasp of social media platforms including Facebook, twitter, and Instagram

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science in Economics, Social Science, Statistics, Monitoring & Evaluation or Project Management from a recognized University

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Please send your cover letter and Curriculum Vitae to [email protected] no later than Friday, February 3rd, 2023

Specify in the email subject line the position being applied for.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.