Monitoring & Evaluation Data Analyst

CTG overview:

• CTG staff and support humanitarian projects in fragile and conflict-affected countries around the world, providing a rapid and cost-effective service for development and humanitarian missions. With past performance in 17 countries – from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia, we have placed more than 20,000 staff all over the world since operations began in 2006.
• CTG recruits, deploys and manages the right people with the right skills to implement humanitarian and development projects, from cleaners to obstetricians, and mechanics to infection specialists, we’re skilled in emergency response to crises such as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Key to successful project delivery is the ability to mobilise at speed; CTG can source and deploy anyone, anywhere, in less than 2 weeks and have done so in 48 hours on a number of occasions.
• Through our efficient and agile HR, logistical and operational services, CTG saves multilateral organisations time and money. We handle all our clients’ HR related issues, so they are free to focus on their core services.
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Overview of position:

• The position will be under the overall guidance of the FAO Somalia representative & direct supervision of the Office of the Somalia Special Envoy for Drought (OSE) & in collaboration with the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) section of FAO Somalia.

The incumbent will report to OSE & perform the following duties:

• Assist in designing of M&E studies, with special focus on developing data collection tools, methodologies & quality assurance processes.
• Participate in designing & implementing training of M&E personnel of FMS & OSE Somalia to capacitate govt. staff.
• Function as the point of contact with Information Technology (IT) & Information Management (IM) units of OSE in developing data collection tools & in issues relating to application of technology.
• Take the lead role in designing & implementing data entry, processing & analyses of M&E studies, in particular in relation to resilience baseline surveys & impact evaluations, adopting the Resilience Index Measurement & Analysis (RIMA) under the guidance of the ESA division of FAO Headquarters (HQ’s).
• This includes establishing quality assurance processes for data cleaning and integrity checks in particular, identifying outliers, missing values & errors, through both manual & statistical / econometric revision of the baseline & evaluation data.
• Participate actively in planning & conducting Cash for Work (CFW) Post Distribution Assessments (PDAs) & CFW beneficiary training impact assessment studies at all stages, including the process of designing questionnaires, quality assurance, data entry, processing, analysis & help with drafting the final reports.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Expected output:

• Design data collection tools, post distribution monitoring, impact & resilience studies.
• Assist in designing of M&E studies.
• Supervise data collection for M&E studies.
• Ensure data quality assurance.
• Perform data processing & analysing of key study indicators.
• Draft M&E technical studies reports.
• Train M&E Field Analysts & govt. counterparts.
• Finalizing all technical reports.

Project reporting:

• This role reports to the line manager.

Key competencies:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management, Development Studies, Statistics, Information Management / Science, Agriculture, Economics, or closely related fields.
• Minimum of 3 years of demonstrable relevant M&E experience.
• Minimum of 3 year of experience in within Somalia.
• Fluency in English & Arabic are essential.
• Extent & relevance of experience in designing, planning & conducting M&E.
• Excellent communication, writing & presentation skills in English & Arabic.
• Good computer skills, including quantitative analysis, use of Excel.
• Ability to work within a team of professional staff from diverse technical & cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to plan & meet deadlines.
• Teamwork spirit, ability to work under minimum supervision, flexibility.
• Demonstrated capacity to plan, advise & guide planning processes on M&E related issues.
• Demonstrated ability to implement a variety of analytical methodologies & techniques.

Team management:

• This role has no team management responsibility.

Further information:

• Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply for this role.