Senior Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist

Job Summary:

The objectives of this assignment are to support the PIU with all Monitoring & Evaluation activities under the Digital CASA Project and other programs being undertaken by MCIT. The consultant will work under the guidance of the Project Director of Digital CASA Afghanistan Project and in close coordination with other relevant departments of MCIT. He/She will be accountable for ensuring that activities under Digital CASA Afghanistan Project are done in accordance with the legal documents between the World Bank and the Government of Afghanistan, in an efficient and transparent manner. The consultant will also provide Monitoring & Evaluation advice and support to the PIU Director and perform any other activities whenever required and assigned by the Director of Digital CASA.

Skills Required:

Provinces to travel:

Skills Description:

•  Excellent analytical and communication skills;
• Experience in coordinating the implementation of projects/packages referring to survey, studies, performance assessments;
• Ability to review and prepare technical documentation in English and local languages;
• Excellent knowledge of English (Written, spoken and understanding) and two official languages (Dari and Pashto);
•  Basic Office Computer Skills (MS Windows and MS Office)
•  Ability to work independently as well as effectively with others in a teamwork environment;

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Coordinate organization-wide efforts to ensure that performance and quality improvement programs are developed and managed using a data-driven focus that sets priorities for improvements aligned to ongoing strategic imperatives;
• Ensure that organization-wide projects’ management and quality improvement initiatives are focused and aligned on improving operational and program efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability; participates in organizational strategic planning and provides coordination input to the development of all projects and policies related to processes’ performance and products’/outputs’ quality improvement;
• Finalize and update periodically, as needed, in agreement with the World Bank, the M&E framework for all the activities foreseen under the Digital CASA-Afghanistan project;
• Periodically collect all the necessary data under the M&E framework for all the activities, which the PIU implements/coordinates under the Digital CASA-Afghanistan project;
• Manage the data on project performance and coordinate the efforts of communicating to the stakeholders and the public at large the data on project performance in cooperation with the relevant personnel of the PIU, MCIT and ATRA;
• Coordinate the completion of monitoring and evaluation activities, assessments performance, feasibility studies, impact evaluations, performance audits by organizing the process of data mobilization, internal organization of data collecting and submission procedure, submitting to the relevant contracted Consultants, companies, third-party evaluators, survey institutes, private and public auditing entities the synthesized data, info notes, reports on the Projects status etc.;
• Ensure that needed data is collected on a timely basis, regular reports on progress are provided, distributed, and makes the required feedback, recommendations for further improvements based on the collected data;
• Monitor all activities & progress made by contractors, consultants, institutes…etc. and compare them with the contract obligations and scope of services/works of their contracts, in order to make sure that the projects run as per the signed contracts.
• Issuance of necessary instructions/guidance to the relevant counterparts for the rectification of any shortcomings which is encountered during Monitoring & Evaluation visit;
• If needed, the consultant will visit project sites in the provinces to evaluate the progress and their compliances to the contract requirements;
• Involve in capacity building activities referring to ensuring and raising quality, performance, efficiency, sustainability of the projects PIU implements and manages;
• Prepare periodic Progress Reports for the World Bank and the Government, including preliminary reports and data collection from the selected/beneficiary institutions, data processing and insertion in general progress reports and info notes;
• Carry out any other tasks assigned by the PIU Project Director.

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Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, management/business administration, economics, technology or other fields from a recognized University;
• At least 5 years’ of work experience relevant to the position in World Bank funded projects or other donor funded projects with a Bachelor degree or 3 years’ work experience in the field of Monitoring and Evaluation with Masters degree;
• The applicants must be able to travel within Afghanistan when required.

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