Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Food and Agriculture Organization

Jakarta, Indonesia

Experience: 3 to 5 Years

Skill Required: Media and Communication

The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) specialist will oversee and enhance the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of the Global Health Security Programme (GHSP) and other relevant project under FAO ECTAD in Indonesia. GHSP works with the Government of Indonesia to maintain health resilience across human-animal environment interface, which is a global priority, particularly on Zoonoses, Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). GHSP is expected to strengthen Indonesia’s health system and increase its capacity in preventing, detecting, and responding to Zoonoses, especially those with pandemic potential and AMR. GHSP works multi-sectoral with a One Health approach.
Tasks and responsibilities:

  • Oversee the FAO ECTAD M&E system including development of a results framework, log frame, monitoring of indicators, maintaining the programme database and information flow as an effective M&E system;
  • Support relevant FAO technical teams on the planning, design, implementation and monitoring of activity reporting and data flow, thereby promoting the effective use of M&E data including regular feedback to management to ensure that activities are on track, and raise any issues with project implementation;
  • Coordinate with relevant FAO ECTAD technical teams and the M&E team on periodical progress monitoring against the work plan by tracking indicators and targets with periodical review, participatory data quality audits and use of an accountable M&E system;
  • Assist with the coordination and preparation of reports according to internal and external reporting requirements;
  • Support program staff in development of databases by using available technologies; use tools for tracking project progress and bottlenecks, and develop simple data collection tools based on monitoring indicators;
  • Together with the Communication team, organize the documentation of project activities, results, and processes including program updates, highlights, success stories, and other communication materials;
  • Participate in any assessments and evaluations by organizing the training of enumerators on assessment methodology and tools; supervise field team to ensure field level data integrity;
  • Provide general supervision of the Software Engineer and the National Data Management Assistant; 
  • Carry out monthly meetings with M&E team members to coordinate and review plans, activities, and performance;
  • Represent FAO at relevant public forums, meetings and workshops, and participate in technical meetings to provide inputs on M&E aspects and information systems;
  • Produce automated reports as required;
  • Provide inputs for FAO and donor reports;
  • Participate and provide inputs in annual project planning activities;
  • Submit End of Assignment Report; 
  • Perform other related M&E duties as required.

Candidates Will Be Assessed Against The Following​​​​​​​:
Minimum Requirements:

  • Advanced degree in development studies preferably focused on international development project management, monitoring, evaluation, and data collection;
  • At least 5 years of experience in a development assistance project or in a similar project involving monitoring and evaluation activities;
  • Working knowledge of English and Bahasa Indonesia;
  • National of Indonesia.

Technical/Functional Skills: 

  • Ability to work with individuals of different cultural / national backgrounds;
  • Good interpersonal and communications skills;
  • Ability to work with minimum supervision and results oriented;
  • Experience with the MS Office, database software and statistical software.
  • Excellent ability to speak and write English and Bahasa Indonesia;
  • Familiarity with operational issues of use of forms in field work, data collection, database management, and report generation.

Source: https://jobs.fao.org/careersection/fao_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=2302309