The Millennium Villages Project, supported by Millennium Promise Alliance and the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a bottom-up approach to lift developing country villages out of the poverty trap that afflicts more than a billion people worldwide. The Millennium Villages’ team of experts in Agriculture, Nutrition and Health, Economics, Energy, Water, Agribusiness, Environment and Information Technology are working with local communities and governments to apply a proven holistic package of interventions to help villages get out of extreme poverty and meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With support from Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) and funding from the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom, a SADA Millennium Village has been established in parts of the West Mamprusi, Mamprugu Moaduri and Builsa Districts of the Northern and Upper East Regions of Ghana. The project area covers a cluster of contiguous rural communities with an estimated population of 25,000 people.

Job Summary

UNIT: SADA Millennium Villages Project
LOCATION: Northern Ghana

JOB SUMMARY:
A Senior M&E Coordinator is being recruited for the SADA Millennium Villages Project site to oversee all aspects of monitoring and evaluation of the project, including quality assurance and reporting of key impact, outcome monitoring, economic costing and process evaluation data.

Specific responsibilities:
Overseeing the collection of key impact, outcome monitoring, economic costing and process evaluation data in the Project site. In particular:

Area Main Tasks:
Management:

•  Conduct periodic audits of data quality, including IRB compliance, and assuming overall responsibility for the quality of M+E data,
•  Facilitate regular progress meetings with the implementation team to feedback data on key metrics with the aim of making adjustments on coverage and targeting,
•  Reporting of M+E data in annual project and donor reports for public dissemination,
•  Conduct mixed methods analyses of data where relevant, generating tables and presentations as needed,
•  Facilitate M & E-related visits from the independent evaluators and donors,
•  Manage requests for data, and,
•  Prepare and submit reports to various stakeholders
•  Support the Team Leader in monitoring and reporting progress and output and have a good understanding of our internal MVP project management systems (Mpango & Quickbooks) and their relationship with MVIS
•  Develop workplan and budgets for M&E activities in the site

Impact assessment:

•  Manage preparatory work for surveys,
•  Training, oversight, and management of survey staff,
•  Coordination of survey field and data systems,
•  Data cleaning and indicator generation,
•  Data documentation,
•  Assurance of host-country Institutional Review Board compliance, and;
•  Generation of site-reports.

Outcome Monitoring:

•  Quality assurance and oversight of the data collection, validation, entry, and analysis of the data entered into the MVIS system.

Process Evaluation:  

•  Collect and report annual qualitative process data,
•  Directly supervise the hiring of qualitative note takers, data collection,
•  Ensure accurate collection of transcripts and notes,
•  Organize and properly label anonymized data.

Economic costing:

•  Coordinate the annual collection of costing data from all external project stakeholders: government sector offices, NGOs, UN organizations, community groups, and any other partners,
•  Ensure that templates detailing the cash and in-kind contributions toward all MDG-related activities in the project area are filled out accurately and fully.

Relationships:

•  Reports directly to Team Leader
•  Works closely with the M&E specialist at MDG centre EI
•  Directly supervise the data manager and data entry clerk
•  Works closely with sector coordinators

Terms of offer:
MVP offers a competitive salary with an excellent benefits package. The employment contract is for a period of one year with the possibility of renewal.MVP prides itself on its collegial, supportive and gender sensitive working environment and believes that staff diversity promotes excellence. Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

Qualification Required & Experience

Education and professional qualifications:
The Senior M&E Coordinator will have the following minimum qualifications:

•  A Master’s degree in Epidemiology, Statistics or a related discipline;
•  Ability to work different data sources:  quantitative, economic and qualitative data;
•  A minimum of 3 years of field research experience including undertaking survey, outcome monitoring, process evaluation or economic costing work;
•  Experience with working with African Demographic Health or Socioeconomic Surveys data sets;
•  Fluency in statistical software including CS-Pro, Excel, SPSS, NVivo, and Stata; Geo-referencing skills desirable;
•  A proven track record of data management and analytical skills;
•  Demonstrated capacity in generating scientific reports, data tables, presentation materials and scientific outputs;
•  Familiarity with the Millennium Villages Project and its field and data management systems would be an advantage.

Location: Northern Ghana

How To Apply For The Job

Applicants should apply by email, sending a cover letter summarizing their relevance to this position, a full C.V. and names and contact information of three referees knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to: SADA.MVP@millenniumpromise.org with copies to employment@mdgwca.org and jacob.ubindam@millenniumpromise.org. “Application for SADA Senior M & E Coordinator” should be clearly marked on the subject line of the email message.

Closing Date: 28 February 2013

Applications will be considered until two weeks from the date of publication.
Only short-listed applicants meeting the above requirements will be contacted.

We invite you to learn more about us at:

www.millenniumvillages.org,
www.millenniumpromise.org,
www.unmillenniumproject.org,
www.mdgcentre.org