Vacancy title:
M&E Fellow

Jobs at:
Health Poverty Action

Deadline of this Job:
28th October 2018

Duty Station:
Kigali, Rwanda

Summary
Date Posted: 19th October 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:

SCOPE OF WORK

About Health Poverty Action (HPA).

Health Poverty Action - HPA is a British NGO which aims to create a world in which the most vulnerable communities can enjoy their rights to health and wellbeing. They give priority to the most excluded and, in particular, indigenous people and communities affected by conflict and political instability. Health Poverty Action has been operational in Rwanda since 1998 and started its programming with the now highly popular Urunana radio soap opera. Health Poverty Action is currently implementing sexual and reproductive health, youth livelihoods and employment and girl's education projects in rural districts of Southern Province and Kigali suburbs.

Project Description

Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze Project is a USAID Funded project that, over the course of five years from 2016 to 2021, will provide 40, 000 vulnerable youth-34, 000 new youth and 6,000 Akazi Kanoze alumni-with employability skills by scaling up proven successful Akazi Kanoze interventions across at least 23of 30 districts countrywide. The implementation of the Project is led by Education Development Center (EDC) in collaboration with three consortium members Catholic Relief Services (CR8), Connexus and Souktel) and 22 other local implementing partners (lPs) that include Health Poverty Action (HPA). Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze will use a series of inclusive innovations that will invite more youth to participate in Rwanda’s historic transformation, particularly women, youth with disabilities and other marginalized youth. Recognizing the diversity of youth backgrounds and goals, Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze will offer multiple program pathways including,employment preparation;individual and cooperative youth microenterprise start-up; business development for existing microenterprises; and continuation onto additional formal Technical Vocational Education and Training (T\/ET} training. This fiscal year HPA is implementing the Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze Project providing employability skills as well as employment and self-employment accompaniment services to 500 youth in Nyaruguru and Kicukiro districts

Summary

Health Poverty Action (HPA) is seeking an M&E Fellow to support the M&E work of Huguka Dukore Akazi Kanoze Project. The M&E Fellow will be responsible for supporting both the M&E Coordinator and Program Coordinator to ensure accurate and comprehensive data collection and management as well as reporting of results and activities accomplished under the project.

The M&E Fellow will be technically supervised by HPA M&E Coordinator.

Duration

The M&E Fellowship will be for nine (9) months with possibilities of extending to 12 months.

Essential functions include (but are not limited to)

• Support both qualitative and quantitative data collection processes following the
  project's reporting schedule;
  
• Support the provision of data quality control assurance and best practices on data
  collected and use;
  
• Support the identification, documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and success stories;
  
• Provide needed database update;
  
• Provide feedback on the use of M&E tools systems;
  
• Support the preparation of narrative and data reports and their timely submission;
  
• Any other activity as assigned by Supervisor;
  

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, statistics, evaluation, mathematics (with major in statistics), information technology applied to management, management or any related social sciences;
  
• Strong computer skills and strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs;
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail;
  
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills;
  
• Fluent in Kinyarwanda and English
  
• Have high teamwork skills and willingness to learn
  

An ideal candidate should:

• Have graduated in less than three (3) years;
  
• Have experience as a volunteer
  
• Be motivated to be placed in any organization or area in Rwanda
  
• Be a resident of the area of operations of HPA
  

Benefits

• EDC will offer a monthly stipend not exceeding 200 000 Rwanda Francs (Gross) for food, transport, and communication throughout the period of the fellowship;
  
• The M&E Fellow will benefit from different trainings organized by the project including,but not limited to, M&E, Work Ready Now! (WRN!) and Advanced entrepreneurship;
  
• The M&E Fellow will be given opportunities to use their knowledge, talents, and experiences to learn more about development interventions’ M&E functions and contribute to lives impacting work;
  
• HPA will provide workstation, access to internet and permission to use its facilities within the limits of its internal policies and procedures;
  
• At the end of the fellowship EDC and HPA will issue certificate and recommendation for future employment;