Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Senior Officer – Nzeve Deaf Centre

Job Summary

Nzeve requires a MEAL Senior Officer to join the M&E team. The MEAL Senior Officer is responsible for designing, leading and implementing the MEAL activities of the organisation; assist the Head of Programmes in the preparation of project plans and reports.

The MEAL Senior Officer must have the following skills:
• Ability to plan workload and demonstrate accountability for outputs with minimal direct supervision
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills
• Creativity and innovative problem-solving skills
• Ability to work with people at different levels including non M&E staff and volunteers
• Ability in Zimbabwe sign language an advantage or willingness to learn essential.

Duties And Responsibilitie

The MEAL Senior Officer will:
• Lead the M&E team and develop team skills and knowledge.
• Facilitate design of SMART objectives, logic models, monitoring frameworks, and evaluation plans.
• Ensure the alignment of M&E activities with program goals
• Maintain existing indicator tracking tools; develop additional databases and tracking tools as needed
• Ensure adherence of projects to submitted work plans.
• Lead evaluation, research and learning activities.
• Contribute to the development of work plans and oversee monitoring systems to track project performance and changes in projects.
• Organize and facilitate trainings on monitoring and evaluation functions for staff.
• Support project teams to conduct periodic performance reviews and to effectively utilize and share M&E based information.
• Support the development, design, and writing of proposals and concept notes

Qualifications And Experience

• A degree in Social Science or equivalent
  • At least 3 year of similar work experience
  • Good knowledge monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
  • Experience with software packages that support MEAL systems and information management
  • Experience in training and capacity building