Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist - Solihull, United Kingdom - Osman Consulting

Osman Consulting

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Solihull, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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About Osman Consulting

Driven by humanitarian principles and ethics, Osman Consulting Ltd is an independent enterprise founded in the UK in 2008, providing technical expertise and consultancy to humanitarian community stakeholders, with the aim to improve effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian action.

We work through our network of skilled and multi-disciplinary professionals. We also have access to a reliable number of consultants that work for us on a project basis. We access contracts via submitting proposals for bidding in a very competitive environment. We work with government agencies, UN agencies, and international non-governmental organisations working in the field of relief and development.

Job purpose

The main purpose of this job is to coordinate the work of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) department through the implementation of OC's long-term and short-term M&E third party monitor (TPM) evaluation projects and programmes across Asia and Africa.

This will include developing close relationships with the field offices, partners, maintaining and managing budgets, managing staff, creating media materials, and completing internal and external reports.

This position will also need to work with the Business Development department to secure new projects and write concept notes to attract donors.

We highly encourage experienced people from Midlands

About The Role

Job Description, Main Duties & Responsibilities:

Monitoring and Evaluation specialist will be responsible for:

Lead on M&E and research projects and ensure project milestones are met, from inception to final deliverables.
At two to four years of experience reporting as Third-Part Monitoring (TPM) for baseline, midterm, final evaluation as well as actionbased and verification assessments.
Deliver capacity building trainings on a range of M&E methodologies, techniques, concepts and learning tools, as well as contribute to the overall internal learning and development efforts in the M&E department.
Ability to be responsible to provide TPM on several projects at a time.
Ensure M&E and research projects strictly adhere to M&E Teams' established quality assurance protocols
Contribute to the design and development of future project proposals.
Ensure that the M&E team including the field team have clear guidance on project methodologies, workplans, and client needs.
Responsible on creating the projects workplan for the M&E department and lead the M&E Team.
Responsible on creating the field data collection plan and ensuring its implementation.
Responsible on creating and approving data collection tools quantitative and qualitative (HHH surveys on KoBo ToolBox, Focus Group Discussion, Key Informant Interviews and Observation Checklists).
Preparing the weekly/monthly plans for monitoring and evaluation of project activities.
Preparing the projects progress reports on results indicators.
Supervise data assurance and data cleaning.
Draft highquality reports based on primary and secondary data that include usable recommendations
Ability to analyse and write programmes indicators for Baseline Assessments.
Conducting periodic and systematic data collection and analysis of the needed evaluation results indicators, in conjunction with relevant projects/program activities.
Preforming deskresearch for each project and analyse the data with OC's collected data.
Responsible on ensuring data collection is being done as per the data collection plan and resolving any field problems.
Responsible on verifying and data assuring all raw data collected.
Preparing a clear and transparent filing system of regional project activities.
Provide timely inputs for new initiatives and improvements on M&E issues to the management team.
Collect and prepare communication and visibility materials (project overviews, project fact sheets, success stories, website material, etc.);
Ability to travel and work in challenging environment in short notice (one to two weeks' notice).
Perform any other task assign by OC Team.

Job Requirement:

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

Bachelor's Degree (Masters preferable) in social sciences or equivalent.
24 years of professional experience in monitoring and evaluation of Agriculture, Food Security, Emergency Response, Shelter, WASH, Medical, Women empowerment, Income Generation and/or development projects.
Fluent in English and a second language is preferrable.
Knowledge and experience of M&E tools, methodologies, and approaches (including data collection quantitative, qualitative as well as participatory).
Understanding of planning and implementation of M&E systems.
Management and team leadership ability.
Applicant with experience is encouraged from the Midland-UK, Pakistan, Somalia, and other countries.

Position Success Criteria: