Position Title: M&E Assistant
Project Location : Yemen, Aden Gov.
Based :  Aden
Posting Date: 09-AUG-2022      
Application Deadline :  23-AUG-2022
Position Category: Full-time
Languages Required :  English / Arabic  
Duration of Initial Contract :    3 months with property of extension

Background

The Society for Humanitarian Solidarity (SHS) is a nonprofit humanitarian NGO based in the in Aden, Yemen. It was founded in 1995.The SHS provides  assistance to refugees and migrants who arrive in Yemen every year. The organization also assists the local community in Yemen. The NGO won the Nansen Refugee Award, dedicated by the UNCHR. SHS has partnerships with UNCHR, OCHA, and WFP.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Receive and maintain clean data source documents from field staff.
• Ensure proper filing and storage of M&E documents, including questionnaires, monitoring reports, datasets, among others.
• With support from the M&E Officer, conduct capacity building and mentorship to field staff.
• Keep the M&E database up-to-date and support program staff prepare periodic highquality reports.
• Assist program staff during survey planning and implementation, especially preparing needed logistics and participating in data collection and cleaning.
• Develop project monitoring and evaluation tools with support from M&E Officer and Project Lead.
• Maintain confidentiality and observe data protection and other associated guidelines.
• Support M&E officer in the compilation of Monthly, Quarterly, Biannual, and annual reports by providing timely, accurate, and updated data.
• Support project teams to prepare activity reports and documentation of best practices,lessons learned, assessment reports.
• In collaboration with the M & M&E Officer, develop data templates to capture and store data in a mild form.
• Key in data from source documents into computer files.
• Transfer data from paper formats into computer files or database systems using keyboards and recorders.
• Create a database with many figures accurately/without mistakes.
• Verify data by comparing it to source documents.
• Update existing data
• Retrieve data from the database or electronic files as requested.
• Perform regular backups to ensure data preservation.
• Sort and organize paperwork after entering data to ensure it is not lost.
• Process data for use by, among other things disaggregating by gender, age, or any additional description as required by end-users.
• Organize the transferred data into relevant formats and computers files or database systems using appropriate IT.
• Maintain and operate the project database records.
• Supervise staff and enumerators on data collection and handling.

Qualifications and requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• Superior knowledge of monitoring and evaluation concepts and practices.
• Ability to design comprehensive M&E tools.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating education programs
• Willingness to undertake regular field visits.
• Good interpersonal relationship skills.
• Ability to handle a large volume of work and meet tight deadlines.
• Strong Computer Skills MS Office Excel and Access.
• Strong organizational and planning skills attention to detail.