Senior Officer, Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation and Reporting Quality Assurance - Readvertisement

Purpose

As a member of the Africa Zone PMER team, the overall purpose of this position is to assure the quality of PMER practice, in the process growing and maintaining a culture and practice of credible, reliable, timely, and cost-effective planning, monitoring & evaluation and reporting for IFRC multilateral work in Africa. This will result in better information for management decisions, and strategic planning, as well as accountability and learning.

Key tasks and responsibilities

Reporting

1. Undertake quality control and final editing of all appeal-based documents (Disaster Relief Emergency Fund bulletins, Emergency Appeals, related updates and reports), ensuring all documents reflect sound monitoring and evaluation practice and are accurate, clear and informative.
2. Ensure reporting deadlines are met and publish appeal-based documents on www.ifrc.org along with sending out relevant notifications.
3. Liaise closely with the Zone Finance Unit, for validation of financial reports.
4. Ensure that the IFRC APPLE database is kept correct and up-to-date regarding all appeal and pledge based reports.
5. Proactively track documents due and completed using IFRC Business Objects software, and provide targeted support to offices in cases where deadlines are not going to be met.
6. Facilitate African National Societies uptake of the Federation-Wide Databank Reporting System (an online tool to facilitate monitoring and reporting of performance in a consistent and transparent manner, thereby enabling individual National Societies and the collective Federation in promoting accountability and positioning for greater influence and growth)

Planning

1. Review the overall quality and consistency of plans for logic, coherence, clarity and provide feedback and assistance to improve, paying attention to such concerns as:

a. Ensuring programming is informed by assessment.

b. Employing a sound and clear logical framework.

c. Employing sound and practical indicators to provide evidence.

1. Publish Long Term Planning Frameworks on www.ifrc.org and Operational Plans on the FedNet intranet.

Monitoring & Evaluation

1. Support monitoring and evaluation processes using IFRC tools and provide guidance to staff and partners in their use. Routinely perform quality control checks of monitoring and evaluation work, overseeing that planned monitoring and evaluation activities are taking place.
2. Track planned evaluations and ensure that evaluation reports are obtained and shared to facilitate learning. Help promote sharing of lessons learned from programme monitoring and evaluation to improve future programme selection, design and implementation.
3. Liaise and coordinate with Partner National Society focal persons to standardise PMER requirements, including formats and procedures.
4. Take part in monitoring and evaluation networking with Non Governmental Organisations, United Nations and other external partners, as well as with National Society PMER focal points, partners and beneficiaries, to coordinate field monitoring and evaluation activities, stay current on best monitoring and evaluation practice and to support quality programming and accountability standards.

Organizational learning and capacity building

1. Provide regular feedback to improve quality of documents at their source.
2. Enhance corporate learning, capacity building and codification of knowledge through regular contributions on the PMER communities of practice.
3. Contribute to training of National Society and IFRC PMER focal persons and Regional Disaster Response Team (RDRT) members on good PMER practices.
4. Maintain database to track National Society and IFRC focal points and their PMER capacities.

HOW TO APPLY:

http://www.ifrc.org/en/who-we-are/working-with-us/current-vacancies/