Monitoring and Evaluation (MEAL) Assistant at GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON)

GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON) is a policy-driven humanitarian, non-governmental organization that implements her program through a revitalized partnership. It is a non-profit organization with a mandate of making the lives of vulnerable people better, those affected by disaster or crisis. GPON is presently operating in the Northeastern regional part of Nigeria where we have reached over 100,000 lives with relief materials, child protection services. GBV mitigation services, livelihood skill-building, health services, and Education support services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation (MEAL) Assistant

Location: Borno
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Overview

The Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant will work closely with the Monitoring and Evaluation manager, and the project officers
He / She will be responsible for ensuring proper monitoring of GPON field projects and proper collection and collation of quality data of the GPON ongoing project implementation and the development and conduct data cleaning for easy and quality analysis.

Responsibilities
Data Collection Tools and Database Design:

Develop tools for collecting regular projects’ activities and performances
Take part in the design of Microsoft Excel databases to store project/program accomplishment data
Work with the M & E manager in designing data collection templates for surveys that need to be conducted internally
Take part in designing electronic data entry templates for mobile/tablet data collection
Work with partner staff in designing both data collection tools and electronic templates
Design a strategy to collect filed level information required by GOALPrime, donors, and/or stakeholders
Work with the M&E and program team in standardizing the project M&E tools.

Collection and Analysis:

Make sure the responsible persons for each and every data elements to compute project performances are assigned
Closely work with front line staff and volunteers to ensure that projects data collected in a timely fashion
Communicate and orient responsible partners or program staff on the use of the tools they are responsible for
Apply data cleaning techniques to ensure the quality of data collected from the field
Tabulate and cross-tabulate the field data for further analysis by the M&E manager
Identify the data quality issues and bring them to the attention of the M&E manager with proposed actions
Take part in the Data Quality Audits, share with program staff, and document findings
With the support of project teams, ensure high-quality monitoring data in a timely manner: collate / organize data for reporting
Partake in routine monitoring missions as scheduled
With the support of M&E officer, train enumerators on the administration of various Environmental Health questionnaires and data collection tools related to project monitoring, baseline, and evaluations
With the support of M&E officer, train casual staff, data entry operators on data entering.

Key Contacts / Working Relationships

Internal:

Reports to the MEAL Manager
Works with Facilitators for data collection.

External:

Regular and open communication with GOALPrime staff from all departments and field offices.
Support donor Engagement and Fundraising. Ensure that funds for continuity and scale-up of Programmes/operations are secured at most 6 months into this contract.

Minimum Qualification

B.Sc / Higher National Diploma in statistics, computer science, IT; or in any related field with 1 – 2 years of working experience
Knowledge of excel, power Bi software, and kobo collect is highly desired.

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