Performance Management & Evaluation Advisor (3 years renewal contract)

Based in: Ghana

Salary: GHC37,000 – GHC50,000

Overview:

The Performance Management and Evaluation Advisor assists WaterAid Ghana (WAG) and partners in being accountable to donors, constituents and stakeholders, by providing technical Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)leadership at several levels. At the program level, the Performance Management &Evaluation Advisor develops monitoring and evaluation strategies and protocols for WASH and wider development related sector projects and leads the effort to document progress, effectiveness and impact for donor reporting requirements, for use in new project and program design, and in articulating program models.

Organizationally, the Performance Management &Evaluation Advisor develops indicators and prepares reports on overall progress and impact that are congruent with WA global and WA Ghana strategic plans, and the organization’s mission. This information will be provided to the Sr. Management Team (SMT) of which he/she will be an active member. The Performance Management & Evaluation Advisor brings his/her experience in the evaluation sector and in the field of international development, and will be knowledgeable about results frameworks, project monitoring and evaluation plans, common indicators, and indicators for donor M&E and reporting requirements.

The Performance Management & evaluation Advisor will work primarily with WA Ghana Country Program office and field staff, and will also coordinate organizational-level activities, including capacity building/training on M&E with others responsible for monitoring, evaluation, planning and/or communicating program results. The Performance Management &Evaluation Advisor is expected to stay current with evolving monitoring and evaluation trends in international development (accent on WASH sector) and to participate with other practitioners in local, national or regional forums and/or working groups on monitoring and evaluation.

Specific Responsibilities:

1. Design

• Prepare results frameworks, performance monitoring and evaluation plans for new programs/proposals, including indicators, data collection methodologies, measurement tools and analysis and reporting protocols.
• Advise on M&E staffing component in new project proposals.
• Through M&E activities, assist program staff and partners to document program models, experiences and best practices for use in new evidence-based program design/proposal development.
• Develop and report on Country Program and departmental indicators as they relate to the organizational strategic plan and mission.
• Provide in-house training to increase capacity of staff to undertake M&E activities.
• Manage WAG’s Programme Management Information System (PROMISE).

2. Monitoring

• Through periodic field travel, establish project monitoring systems, including overall design, instrumentation, data collection/aggregation, and analysis. Oversee the quality and processing of data collection where required. As needed, work with/train project staff, grantees and local partners in monitoring activities.
• Review, improve and disseminate general project reporting guidelines, for both periodic and final project reports based on WA and donor requirements.
• In collaboration with appropriate Country Program project and/or technical staff, review project reports for quality and to ensure that reports and other project documents capture progress, effectiveness, and impact of programs; ensure that results of report reviews are constructively fed back to project teams and Sr. Management Team for evidence based decision-making;
• Develop internal database, or add to existing knowledge management systems, in order to fully house and capture project successes and/or challenges, results and impact and desired change outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with program standards expected/required by external oversight agencies.

3. Evaluation

• Refine Water Aid Ghana’s overall strategy for program evaluations and systems.
• Lead teams for internal or donor-required evaluation. Working with relevant persons, design scopes of work, methodologies, time lines, products and deliverables, manage external consultants, and interact with donors when needed to carry out mid-term, end of project and other needed evaluations and reviews.
• Play a key role in keeping WA Ghana current with developments in the field of evaluation e.g., new approaches, experiences of other organizations, best practices, research and strategies from donors, scholars, practitioners and policy-makers;
• Provide in-house staff and partner training as needed.
• Manage impact evaluation activities.
• Participate in other related activities, and take on special M&E projects as requested.

Program Development and Fundraising

• Provide support to fundraising efforts incliuding writing reviewing and editing proposals and budgets
• Provide technical inputs to programme development documents during program design workshops especially on impact measurement, indicators and M&E systems
• Advise on M& E staffing component in new project proposals

Representation and Advocacy

• Represent WAG at external for a (government and non governmental) particularly those related to impact measurement , M&E systems design, evaluation of programs or projects and assessments/evaluations of country strategy achievements.

Required Knowledge, Qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree in a field related to international development and/or social or behavioral sciences, and/or in one or more of the following fields: e.g., Water, sanitation and hygiene, civil society & governance, capacity building, agriculture, education, HIV/AIDS, equity and inclusion/gender mainstreaming and/or advocacy.
• Training in mixed method research and methods.

Minimum seven years experience working in developing countries, particularly West Africa and/or Ghana in monitoring and evaluation design, including applied research, indicator development, including qualitative behavioral measures; strong analytical skills; understanding of donor requirements and expectations, particularly the USG.

• Experience working with local NGOs and project partners on M&E activities.
• Excellent oral and written communication and data representational skills.
• Ability to mentor and provide training for WAG and targeted partner staff.
• Fluency in several Ghanaian languages required, French language is desirable.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% of time or as required.
• Good computer skills essential, including Word, Excel, project and database management, statistical packages.(SPSS,EPIDATA, etc)

Desired skills

Specialized training in evaluating social and /or development programs particularly WASH sector. Experience leading gender impact assessment across regions and/or multiple countries
Understanding of rights-based and strength based approaches, underlying causes of poverty and social injustice, and multi-sectorial and longterm approaches to change and development programming

Personal Qualities:

• Excellent inter-personal, inter-cultural and teamwork skills, sound judgment and strong initiative, as needed to work independently and build new capacity within WAG and amongst partners.
• Able to embrace WA values and exhibit in workplace
• Ability to perform multiple tasks
• Ability to solve problems using sound analysis, relate multiple issues and determine cause and effect.

WaterAid Ghana Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form ( DOCX File 60KB)

Applications and CVs, and EEO forms should be forwarded by email to:
The Human Resource Manager at: waghana@wateraid.org not later than 19th April, 2011.

Late applications will not be accepted. Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Thank you for your interest in WaterAid!