Prepare for 2024, Apply for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer at ILO

As the year comes to an end with little prospects for contract renewal, Prepare for 2024, Apply for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer at ILO.

Location : Cairo, Egypt

Closing Date : 4 January 2024 Midnight Local time

Vacancy open to : Specific Local Recruitment

Background About the Position

The M&E officer is responsible to compile information and disseminate knowledge about M&E among all projects in the Cairo office and ensures that projects are adopting and adhering to the ILO M&E practices.  S/he will ensure ILO M&E toolkit is developed and always updated and are being adequately and promptly utilized by Project Teams.  This will include but not limited to all practices of data management, projects monitoring and documentation, evaluations and learning practices.  The M&E officer will be a point of reference for all M&E activities. The M&E officer will report to the Senior Programme Officer in the Cairo office.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will be responsible for the design and implementation of the Comprehensive Monitoring, Evaluation and learning Strategy for ILO and ILO projects ensuring its adoption across all ILO Cairo Office initiatives and projects.
2. Develop and implement mechanisms to enhance the knowledge management function in the target countries and at regional level including aspect of governance, knowledge transfer, electronic accessibility and other aspects of a knowledge management strategy beyond the life of the project.
3. Undertake regular visits to the fields to support the monitoring of the project, check the quality of data produced, and to identify where adaptations might be needed.
4. Devise and mainstream ILO’s Standard Indicators, a set of indicators that reflect ILO’s priorities and achievements in Egypt and develop and ensure criteria for data quality assurance across all projects, conducting periodic assessments to the reported data and indicators achievements.
5. Conduct periodic M&E training sessions collectively and individually with projects teams ensuring adopting proper practice standards.
6. Participate in project design workshops and brainstorming providing M&E Lens as relevant  and ensure that gender is mainstreamed in project implementation.
7. Review monitoring outputs are well captured and documented.
8. Collaborate with the Communication team for the production and dissemination of flyers, communication bulletins and/or newsletters to partners and potential donors. 
9. Support technically the implementation of the midterm and final evaluations of the projects, including inputs in ToRs and technical support during their implementation and ensure the dissemination of findings, lessons learned, good practices and recommendations Lead and/ or support self-assessments on projects, providing guidance and advice for adjustments and adaptations.
10. Support the Cairo Office in the implementation of its Resource Mobilization Strategy
11. Any other tasks requested by the supervisor.

Required qualifications

Education

First level University degree (Bachelor’s or equivalent) in a field relevant to the job.

Experience

Minimum of two years of professional work experience in programme and/or project planning, monitoring, implementation and evaluation activities.

Languages

Excellent command of English and Arabic, written and spoken.

Competencies

• Design and Strategy: Excellent understanding of programmatic design and a good grasp of strategy, including results based management 
• Analytics: capacity to look at data with an impact lens.
• Data Skills: knowledge of how to analyze and visualize data, good command of a visualization software is a asset.  
• Attention to details
• Resilience, can cope with internal and external challenges
• Purpose driven with clarity in vision and direction.
• Strong written communication skills, including proven ability to create high-quality written documents.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to justify requirements and approaches to problem resolution, ability to negotiate and good drafting skills.
• Good organizational skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as a member of a team.
• Ability to deal with people with tact and diplomacy.
• Good knowledge of PC software (including word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software) such as Microsoft Office.
• Knowledge of the programming cycle (planning, monitoring, reporting and evaluation).
• Knowledge of resource mobilization.
• Clear commitment to mainstream gender into project activities.
• Ability to adapt quickly to new software and systems.
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and to demonstrate gender-sensitive and non-discriminatory and inclusive behaviour and attitudes.