J Job Title: M&E Officer/Learning Hub Strategic Lead (Mogadishu and Afgoye). 2 National Position

Organizational Description:
AVSI is an international NGO with headquarters in Italy, which has been active in Kenya since 1986 and In Somalia since 2020. AVSI is a prominent provider of development and humanitarian assistance around the world and brings strong management and innovative strategies to programs in various sectors including; Agriculture and Food Security, Child Protection, Education, Energy, Health, Livelihood, Economic Strengthening, Wash, Vocational Training & Job Creation, Health, Protection including child protection, and Environment.

Programme Background:
AVSI Foundation is launching a poverty-alleviation project under its Resilience Food Security Activity framework in the areas of Mogadishu/Banadir and Afgoye. The project is centered on the Graduation Approach, a multistep, time-bound program designed to bring extremely poor and vulnerable households out of poverty in a sustainable and resilient manner. The interventions are hence planned to roll out in a set of underserved IDP and host settlements of Mogadishu/Banadir and the Afgoye area. While this approach has never been applied to this cale in Somalia, AVSI has built its expertise in Graduation after successfully applying this approach in countries like Kenya and Uganda. The project is expected to run from 2024 to 2029.

Job Purpose

The M&E Officer/Learning Hub Strategic Lead will be responsible for the data management in the Strategic Learning Hub and reporting activities related to AVSI participation in the project. They will be in charge of receiving, reviewing, verifying, entering and analyzing all secondary data collected by coaches, cleaning and uploading all data in the database of the Strategic Learning Hub, and analyzing it together with the Strategic Learning Coordinator. They will carry out regular reporting activities on AVSI-led activities and conduct regular monitoring visits on the ground, as per the initiatives of the Strategic Learning Hub.

Key duties and responsibilities:
• Provide leadership and coordinate the monitoring and evaluation of project activities in collaboration with the Program Manager and the Strategic Learning lead and coordinator
• Design a M&E system towards timely, accurate and comprehensive reporting of the project outputs and outcomes. These may include data base, tools, plans, learning agenda and all related M&E frameworks

• Ensure compliance with the guidelines given by the donor for the collection and compilation of all project data
• Ensure there is timely, comprehensive and accurate data collection, analysis, interpretation and use.
• Support all project staff in M&E activities and in particular ensuring good data quality, corresponding to good quality reporting and resulting into learning and adaptation and or replication
• To participate in operational research and identify lessons learned and reporting such information back to the project team.
• Ensure information collection and to collaborate with AVSI program managers in the preparation of project reports
• Support other AVSI projects for specific M&E tasks and functions as and when requested
• Represent AVSI at the national, district and other external assignments for M&E related activities as directed by the Program Office and AVSI Country Representative
• Participate and provide support to the Program Office within AVSI program department initiatives
• Support proposal development processes; particularly those sections related to M&E.