Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Vacancy: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

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The Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) is a membership-based organization registered in Kenya with country offices in Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda. 

Our members are key stakeholders and players in the grain value chain including cereal growers, millers and processors drawn from within and outside the East Africa States. 

Our core mandate is to develop and promote orderly structured marketing systems and provide market information for grains so as to reduce transaction costs and eliminate barriers’ to regional trade.
 

We seek to fill the advertised position with an individual who is analytical, has good organizational skills, development skills, and is capable of working independently or as part of a team. 

The successful candidate should be highly professional, self motivated and a proven high achiever with good leadership skills.
 

 

Reporting to the Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following amongst others:

• Participating in developing systematic and realistic monitoring plans that capture quantitative and qualitative data to report on project performance indicators.
• Assisting in coordinating the implementation of baseline surveys, follow‐on monitoring and evaluation exercises for various initiatives in the Council.
• Participating in building capacity of staff on the logical framework, data management, data analysis and results‐oriented programming, monitoring and evaluation methods and principles and report writing techniques and requirements for relevant donors/partners to ensure compliance.
• Participating in developing program and operational reporting templates.
• Participating in compilation and dissemination of quarterly, half year and annual program reports and project reviews.
• Proposing strategies to the projects team for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the project by identifying bottlenecks in completing project activities and developing plans to minimize or eliminate such bottlenecks.
• Facilitating documentation and reporting of training assessments, program data, lessons learnt and best practices for internal and external sharing.

Qualification, Skills and Experience:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in development related subjects preferable Economics or Sociology
• 3 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation of development programs.
• Good knowledge of Program Cycle Management and Development.
• Good communication and analytical skills.
• Computer skills especially statistical analysis using SPSS, Ms Access, STATA, Excel etc.
• Team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Capacity to manage several tasks simultaneously, be flexible and be willing to assume a range of unanticipated assignments.

If your background and competence match the above specifications, please send your application demonstrating how your experience matches our requirements. 

It should include an updated C.V., your current remuneration package, valid email address, daytime contact number and full contact details of 3 referees including day time telephone number to: hr@eagc.org copied to dkiai@eagc.org by 25th June 2015. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.