Room to Read is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
The Research, Monitoring & Evaluation (RM&E) Officer’s primary responsibilities will include providing technical expertise and working with program and operations team to design, implement and manage research,
Room to Read envisions a world in which all children can pursue a quality education.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer will perform the following functions-
- Collaborate with Program and Operations department colleagues to effectively design, implement and oversee country office research, monitoring and evaluation activities.
- Develop, manage, and implement COTZ’s annual in-country research agenda, collaborating with programs and operations colleagues to help them identify and prioritize areas for targeted learning, and contributing technical research design and methodology expertise.
- Provide technical expertise to support the design and implementation of monitoring activities, and work with operations managers to ensure the timely entry of global indicators, program implementation monitoring, and donor reporting data
- Manage and coordinate the implementation of rigorous reading skills impact assessments, including training and mentoring contract staff to help them develop the necessary knowledge and skill sets to run methodologically strong evaluations that adhere to global RM&E evaluation guidelines.
- Support RtR’s growing outcome-monitoring initiatives, ensuring that staff have the necessary skills to collect outcome data in a high-quality and methodologically-sound manner, and facilitating in-country piloting of new outcome measures, if applicable.
- Lead the development and management of budgets for research, evaluation, and RM&E staff support; provide input on monitoring activity budgets.
- Manage and coordinate data quality monitoring activities in accordance with global guidelines, using the learnings to build country office team capacity on consistent understanding of organizational indicators and application of quality data collection practices.
- Ensure CO RM&E practices are in or move towards alignment with global RM&E guidelines and work with GO RM&E to agree on areas where country-level contextualization is appropriate
- Serve as primary country contact for any research or evaluation assignments run by external consultants, and provide guidance on methodology and support on logistical arrangements for these studies.
- Serve as point of contact for GO communications team to collect case studies and stories for sharing anecdotal evidence of RtR’s impact.
- Stay informed about research and trends in the area of research, monitoring and evaluation and recommend improvements to our systems accordingly.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field, i.e. education, research, social sciences / economics.
- Proven previous experience in research, monitoring and evaluation.
- Strong technical competence in research and monitoring and evaluation methods.
- Strong operational management ability: a clear focus on results – sets goals, plans and prioritizes effectively, monitors quality and progress of work against plans.
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills, with proven ability to work with data software packages such as SPSS/SAS.
- Experience in data entry and analysis.
- Ability to travel frequently to where RtR Tanzania operates, including rural areas.
- Prior experience living and/or working in rural areas.
- Good knowledge and understanding of education issues, including community involvement in schools.
- Experience in successful implementation of a wide range of tasks.
- Commitment to continuous learning for professional development.
- Demonstrated ability to pull multi-cultural environment and establish harmonious relationships both within and outside the organization.
- Oral and written fluency in Swahili and English.
- Excellent knowledge, understanding and experience of operation research and leading country monitoring and evaluation strategy.
- Effectiveness in working or volunteering in a fast-paced, growth-oriented global or regional non-governmental organization that is focused on maintaining high quality work and low overhead .
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their resume and cover letter via email.
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