Position: Monitoring, Evaluation and Data Advisor

Salary Band: 4

Organisational Unit: GIZ / Cluster Digital Transformation & Digital Economy Rwanda

Place of Assignment: Kigali, Rwanda

Initial Contract Period: 15 January 2025 – 31 December 2025

Application Deadline: 23 December 2024

A. About GIZ and the Cluster

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a federally owned international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. The GIZ Office in Kigali covers GIZ’s portfolio in Rwanda and Burundi. GIZ Rwanda/Burundi implements projects on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union and other commissioning authorities in the following priority areas: Sustainable Economic Development; Good Governance; Climate, Energy and Sustainable Urban Development; Digital Transformation and Digital Economy; and regional projects in the Great Lakes Region.

The Cluster Digital Transformation & Digital Economy is home to several GIZ projects, which supports the Rwandan government on the implementation of concrete activities and projects all over the country. These projects include topics like promoting the development of digital solutions for the public sector, develop national strategies, Start-up ecosystem support, artificial intelligence as well as building digital skills and digital literacy for the economic and social development of Rwanda. The projects within the Digital Transformation Cluster are implemented under the guidance of the Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT) and with other sector ministries, local and international private companies, research institutions and the civil society. An essential part of the portfolio of the Cluster focuses on supporting our partners during the development and implementation of concrete initiatives and projects in several parts of Rwanda in close collaboration between public and private stakeholders. The Cluster Digital Transformation & Digital Economy Rwanda is currently looking for an experienced individual, to support the existing teams in monitoring, data collection, data analysis and visualization and reporting for the position as a Monitoring, Evaluation and Data Advisor.

A. Responsibilities

The Advisor is responsible for:

• Design and implement comprehensive monitoring framework for development projects
• Coordinate data collection tools and methodologies to gather qualitative and quantitative data
• Conduct regular field visits to monitor project activities, collect qualitative feedback from beneficiaries and to conduct plausibility checks on given data
• Prepare regular monitoring reports that summarize findings, challenges and recommendations for improvements
• Analyse current data to assess project performance and present to Management Team
• Present data-driven insights to stakeholders, including project teams, donors and partners
• Provide support to project staff on M&E practices and tools
• Foster a culture of learning within the teams by sharing best practices and lessons learnt on monitoring
• Participate in relevant meetings, workshops, and conferences to represent the organizations M&E efforts
• Contribute to the development of strategies that enhance project effectiveness and sustainability

B. Core Tasks

The Advisor performs the following tasks:

• The establishment of a coherent results-based monitoring system using GIZ internal and external instruments
• Activity tracing of project activities
• Collecting data for reporting to donor indicators for each relevant reporting period
• Implementing qualitative/quantitative surveys (e.g. based on Capacity Works requirements) 
• Support the digitalization the monitoring systems (projects implemented by GIZ are bound to use tools that comply with legal and corporate requirements)
• Visualization of data (e.g. PowerBI)
• Systematic documentation of all monitoring processes and results
• Advises with integrating results into the steering of the project / analyzing and reflecting of results / adapting of results model
• Coordinating M&E system with consultants
• Ensures gender-sensitive monitoring and data collection
• Contributes to reportings to partners, donors and management team
• Capacity building of the team on M&E aspects
• Support internal and external evaluations.

Required qualifications, competences, and experience.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Social Sciences, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.

Professional experience:

• Minimum 2 years of experience in development cooperation.
• Proven experience in working in monitoring processes
• Strong understanding of M&E methodologies, tools and best practices
• Research skills (qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis) 
• Experience in operating with data collection systems
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (e.g. Excel and PowerBI)
• Proven skills and experience in data analysis software or tools (e.g. Stata, R, …) are a plus

Other knowledge, additional competences

• Proactive in the development and implementation of ideas and proposals
• Strong teamwork ethic and ability to work in teams, multitasking skills. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Knowledge of relevant cross-cutting issues (Gender, Digitalization) 
• Excellent communication and organizational skills. 
• Attention to details, self-confidence & ability to work in teams. 

Interested candidates should submit their application (motivation letter, updated CV, certificates and references), via our electronic job portal by using the button “Apply Now”; until 23^rd December 2024 at 4:00 PM. All attachments should be put together in one PDF file not larger than 2 MB.

GIZ is a signatory of the Diversity Charter. Recognition, appreciation and inclusion of diversity in the company are important to us. All employees shall be valued - regardless of gender and gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, social background, age or sexual orientation. We support equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.

This includes the provision of reasonable accommodation, if needed, in order to participate in the job application and interview process and to perform essential job functions. Please let us know, if you have any particular requirements should you be invited for assessment/interview or that you wish us to consider, when considering your application.

Women and persons with disabilities are particularly encouraged to apply.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for test and interview.

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