The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. We are recruiting to fill the position of a Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer in Maiduguri, Borno.

Background/IRC Summary

• The IRC has been present in Nigeria since 2012 when the organization responded to flooding in Kogi state. The IRC Nigeria country program is implementing multi-sectoral interventions in the sectors of: Health and Nutrition; Environmental Health; Child Protection; Education; Women’s Protection and Empowerment; Food Security and Livelihoods and Protection
• Most of these programs are driven in strategic partnership with government partners and communities.

Job Description

• The M&E Officer is responsible for managing key research and M&E activities and will track, collect, and review project level performance data and conduct analysis where required
• General responsibilities of M&E Officer include: providing research support in data collation, training research enumerators/assistants, develop M&E plans; tracking activities and results
• He/she should have capacity to develop information management systems for reporting and retrieving research results; guidance documents and training materials for results reporting; and assisting project research principles in associated research materials consolidation to meet the research outcomes
• The role will also include participation in field monitoring activities and technical support to field teams during the research lifespan. The M&E Officer will work under the supervision of Education M&E Manager, overseen by the M&E coordinator.

Major Responsibilities

• Support the Education Sector in implementing research package within the locations of assignment, following ethically sound research approaches, a research protocol and a set work plan;
• Ensure that detailed and feasible project monitoring plans are developed that: i) consider ethical and safe collection and storage of data, ii) consider data quality, iii) consider storing, protecting and sharing project documents;
• Closely work with M&E and Education Managers to make sure the research project has adequate and tested standard monitoring tools that capture research activities outputs;
• Make sure all research locations have accountability mechanisms;
• In consultation with the Education M&E Manager, organize lesson sharing events like lesson bazars to fertilize learning among different input across the centers;
• Assist in identifying, documenting, storing and sharing lessons learned that have implications for refinement of best programmatic practice;
• Lead implementation research studies conducted in formal education (tutorial) program.

Research, Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Lead baseline and end-line evaluation data collection (including development of data collection tools, recruitment and training of enumerators, data collection and compilation of the data);
• Manage routine data collection from formal learning centers and share when appropriate;
• Support the M&E Manager and HQ technical Unit to analyze and publish results of research;
• Develop and follow monthly/annual research activity plans including M&E plans;
• Work with M&E Manager to determine which monitoring activities will take place and which data collection methods to use;
• Ensure that data is collected and entered into databases and/or tracking sheets, and/or the data platform on a regular basis;
• Track progress on action points related to implementation and M&E activities;
• Closely follow up the field data collection and flag data collection issues to the M&E Manager;
• Conduct data quality audit of research data to identify and resolve systemic problems affecting data quality;
• Document findings from data quality audits and store in project files to ensure collective and sustainable access;
• Support in identifying and synthesizing good practices and lessons learned.

Qualifications

• University Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Social Science, Measurement and Evaluation, Economics and Statistics, or a related discipline;
• Minimum of two (2) years working experience in research/monitoring and evaluation within development / humanitarian sector, preferably in education sector;
• Proven technical skills in research, monitoring and evaluation, including experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis;
• Good knowledge of research methods, methodologies and techniques;
• Proven experience in conducting standard research, preferably in education sector;
• Familiarity with data analysis tools (e.g: Advanced Excel with Pivot Tables, Power Pivot, Power Query and complex Excel formula);
• Familiarity with and ability to develop electronic data collection tools using: ODK, Kobo collect and Tangerine.
• Develop interactive dashboard using: Pivot Tables and/or Microsoft Power BI.
• Proactive and effective planning and organizing skills; flexible work attitude;
• Proven abilities in developing monitoring plans, data collection, information management, use of databases, and analysis and performance monitoring;
• Comprehensive knowledge of humanitarian accountability principles and their translation into practice;
• Strong commitment to IRC’s mission, purpose and values;

Languages:

• Fluent in oral and written English
• Ability to facilitate and communicate in local languages such as: Hausa, Kanuri and Fulfulde.
• Female candidates who met the above criteria are strongly advised to apply.
• Language Skills: Must be able to communicate and write in English, Hausa and Kanuri languages is a plus.

How to Apply

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