Information Management Officer Internship

The Street Child is hiring a  Information Management Officer.

Duty Station: Pemba

Reporting to: Program Manager and Consortium Manager

Supervision of: District officers

Travel: Mueda/Palma/Mecufi/Balama

Contract Duration: 6 months with possibility of extention

Job Description

Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 650,000 children to go to school and learn.

Part 1 – Role Purpose

The Senior IM officer will support the Program manager and consortium Manager in data collection, reporting, monitoring the programmes activities, and evaluation. The scope of the work is to lead the overall database and baseline data development and track the progress of the Street Child’s programmes in Child Protection and Education, and coordinate with partners.

Part 2 – Roles & Responsibilities

• Review and develop M&E tools and simple guidelines to use them for our CP and education projects. This includes the M&E framework and workplan, data collection tools, data verification tools, and other necessary tools;
• Develop baseline and endline assessment tools Street Child’s programmes with the support of the project manager;
• Identify any gaps or areas for improvement and work with the project manager and programmes manager to improve the quality of in-country M&E;
• Supervise and review the M&E component of the monthly and quarterly reports, produce data visualization outputs based on data analysis for reporting;
• Training the project team in MEAL standards, principles, tools, and guidelines;
• Support in the careful analysis of the project log frame matrix, particularly in the areas of performance indicators and their measurement;
• Assist in the development and/or finalization of the project implementation and performance management Plan and keep it updated in accordance with project activities and timeframes as relevant;
• Review the quality of existing data in the project subject areas, the methods of collecting it, and the degree to which it will provide good baseline statistics for impact evaluation;
• Develop a plan for project-related capacity-building on M&E and for any computer-based support that may be required;
• Organize and undertake training on information management and reporting as required.

Implementation of IM and coordination:

• Collect data on a regular basis to measure achievement against the performance indicators;
• Check data quality with provincial staff;
• Maintain and administer the IM database; analyse and aggregate findings;
• Support project progress reporting, project mid-term review and final evaluation;
• Identify areas where technical support to provincial staff is required. Organize refresher training on M&E for provincial and national staff as required;
• Identify lessons learned and develop case studies to capture qualitative outputs of the project;
• Provide advice to the supervisor on improving project performance using M&E findings.

Communication:

• Produce reports on M&E findings and prepare presentations based on M&E data as required;
• Provide the Project Manager with management information she/he may require;
• Check that monitoring data are discussed in appropriate forum and in a timely fashion in terms of implications for future action. If necessary, create such discussions to fill any gap;
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Project Manager and the Mozambique Programmes manager.

Part 3: Person Specification

• Attributes Essential Desirable.

Education/ Qualifications

• Masters degree in social sciences, economics, math or physics, IT, or related subjects.

Experience and Knowledge

• Minimum 4 years of M&E and small scale data analysis and reporting experience including M&E activities of humanitarian/development projects;
• Experience in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages;
• Experience in planning and managing surveys;
• Experience in developing and refining data collection tools;
• Experience with data quality assessments and oversight;
• Experience in managing and providing training to partners and target beneficiaries;
• IM experience for INGOs;
• M&E experince in Cabo Delgado/Mozambique.

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent written and spoken communications in Portuguese;
• Fluency in English is a strong asset;
• Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies (e.g. qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, and impact) and datacollection and analysis methodologies;
• Ability to facilitate and serve as project liaison for externally-managed evaluations;
• Excellent analytical skills;
• Good moderation, facilitation and training skills;
• Demonstrated ability to liaise and negotiate with government and social partners;
• Data visualization skills is a strong asset.

Other

• Ability to work in a team and good interpersonal skills;
• Good computer applications skills;
• Good organizational skills;
• Ability to deal with people with tact and diplomacy;
• Ability to work independently with a minimum of supervision;
• Ability to work under time pressure and meet deadlines;
• Willingness to travel to remote areas in Cabo Delgado province.

How to Apply

Please note the deadline is the 25th of May 2023, yet applications will be considered on a rolling basis. We encourage early submission. Applications with no CVs will not be accepted.