Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
- Career Category: Monitoring & Evaluation, Community Development, Rural development, Social Work, Economics
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: $900 - $950 Other Benefits
Report To: Program Coordinator
Location: Based Stung Treng and travel to Ratanak Kiri Province
PURPOSE OF POSITION
The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer will serve as the technical focal point for monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) across WP’s projects and organizational programs. Based in Stung Treng Province, the position will support the implementation of multiple projects in Stung Treng, Ratanakiri, and other project locations as required, while also contributing to the strengthening of WP’s organizational M&E systems.
The M&E Officer will work closely with Project Managers, Program Coordinators, and technical staff to ensure the effective design and implementation of M&E frameworks, data collection systems, performance monitoring, reporting, and learning processes across all projects. The position will provide technical support and capacity strengthening to project teams to ensure high-quality data collection, verification, analysis, documentation, and reporting in accordance with donor requirements and organizational standards.
The role is responsible for monitoring data quality, tracking project performance against approved indicators and targets, maintaining project databases, and generating evidence to support timely and high-quality monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, annual, and donor reports. The M&E Officer will also support baseline assessments,
- Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)
- Lead and coordinate monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) activities across WP projects and programs to ensure effective tracking of progress, outcomes, and impact.
- Develop, review, and update project and organizational M&E frameworks, results frameworks, indicator tracking tables, data collection tools, and performance monitoring systems.
- Support project teams in tracking progress against project indicators, targets, work plans, and donor commitments, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
- Lead the planning, design, coordination, and implementation of baseline studies, outcome monitoring, mid-term reviews, endline evaluations, surveys, assessments, and research activities across WP projects and programs.
- Develop and apply appropriate methodologies, data collection tools, sampling approaches, and quality assurance mechanisms for baseline, outcome monitoring, endline studies, and other evaluations.
- Data Management and Quality Assurance
- Establish, maintain, and manage project and organizational databases to ensure data accuracy, completeness, consistency, security, and accessibility.
- Oversee data collection, verification, validation, cleaning, processing, analysis, and reporting processes in collaboration with Program Coordinators, Project Managers, and project teams.
- Conduct regular data quality assessments, data verification exercises, and monitoring visits to ensure compliance with organizational standards and donor requirements.
- Ensure all data management processes comply with WP policies and procedures, including data protection, confidentiality, safeguarding, and child protection standards.
- Reporting, Learning and Knowledge Management
- Lead the preparation and submission of high-quality monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, annual, and ad hoc reports in accordance with organizational and donor requirements.
- Analyze and synthesize monitoring, evaluation, and research findings to generate evidence, trends, lessons learned, and recommendations that support program improvement, adaptive management, and strategic decision-making.
- Document and disseminate best practices, success stories, case studies, lessons learned, and evidence of project outcomes and impact to strengthen organizational learning and knowledge management.
- Ensure findings from baseline studies, outcome monitoring, evaluations, and research are effectively communicated and integrated into project planning, implementation, reporting, and organizational learning processes.
- Capacity Strengthening and Technical Support
- Provide technical guidance and support to management, project staff, and partners on M&E systems, methodologies, tools, data quality standards, and reporting requirements.
- Build the capacity of project staff, volunteers, and partners through coaching, mentoring, and training on monitoring, evaluation, data management, outcome measurement, and evidence-based programming.
- Lead and coordinate field teams, enumerators, consultants, and project staff during baseline assessments, outcome monitoring exercises, endline evaluations, surveys, and other data collection activities.
- Support the strengthening of organizational M&E systems and contribute to monitoring progress against WP's Strategic Plan, organizational performance indicators, and institutional learning objectives.
- Coordination and Other Responsibilities
- Conduct regular field monitoring visits to project sites and target communities to verify data quality, assess project performance, provide technical support, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Participate in project reviews, coordination meetings, workshops, trainings, evaluations, donor visits, and other organizational events as required.
- Provide support for data entry, database maintenance, and other M&E-related administrative tasks when necessary.
- Bachelor's Degree in Rural Development in Social Science, Economics, or related field
- Monitoring & evaluation in a development/NGO setting for 3 years as a minimum
- Knowledge and skills in statistics and research management
- Advanced skills in the use of MS Office (in particular Excel), SPSS, and database management
- Considerable experience in training, project monitoring & evaluation preferred;
- Excellent communication skills, both in oral and written forms, is required.
- Good organizing skills and interpersonal skills
- Good facilitation skills / capacity-building experience
- Strong ability to work both independently and in a team
