Location: Kingston
Reports to: The Associate Director of Programs and Advocacy
Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead program programme design and development with management team and community.
- Conduct the identification and tracking of programme and proposal development opportunities.
- Proactively seek and monitor donor solicitation opportunities to preposition Transwave Jamaica for responses.
- Oversee proposal development processes (writing, editing, consultations with target groups, involvement of other programme staff, including the Finance Director for the development of Budgets and presentation to Executive Director).
- Develop M&E tools and processes for programmes and activities.
- Provide technical support to staff and affiliates to strengthen their M&E systems.
- Update as necessary M&E plans, consistent with relevant M&E frameworks, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, including and especially, Trans people, young people, transgender persons and partners.
- Strengthen systems and tools, and training materials to train staff, volunteers and other implementing partners personnel;
- Provide technical guidance for the implementation of the M&E plan, through training and other on-site support.
- Facilitate review of progress on a quarterly basis and ensure problem solving through remedial actions;
- Ensure disparities between planned and actual outputs are addressed;
- Assist the organization in the identification of potential implementation problems and bottlenecks and recommend appropriate strategies to address them;
- Manage and provide leadership on M&E of all youth-focused related projects; and
- Prepare activity, quarterly and annual programmatic reports and progress updates.
Ensures effective management of the monitoring and evaluation process, focusing on the following:
- Ensure that project monitoring arrangements comply with donor requirements and that the provisions of the grant agreement are fully observed;
- Review the quality of existing data sources, the methods of collecting them and the degree to which they will provide good baseline data for activity/project evaluations; based on this review consult partners to develop approaches to address identified gaps; and
- Follow up on implementation of monitoring, evaluation and learning recommendations; ensure the use of evaluation findings by providing guidance in preparation of timely management response to all mandatory evaluations and by developing a communication/dissemination plan.
Ensures facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the area of monitoring and evaluation, focusing on achieving the following results:
- Identify and formulate lessons learned and document best practices from evaluations and studies to be integrated into project reports; and
- Maintain cooperative relationship with all key stakeholders.
Required QUALIFICATION, SKILLS and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Development, Sociology, Public Policy, Management Studies or related Social Sciences
- At least one year M&E related experience in the field of human rights, gender, development or public health;
- Training in Results Based Management and other relevant M&E frameworks and/or tools
- Extensive knowledge of monitoring and evaluation methodologies i.e. both quantitative and qualitative data collection, processing and analysis;
- Knowledge of sampling and questionnaire design;
- Knowledge of, and experience with using data analysis software
- Knowledge of and experience in gender, human rights, youth empowerment, development, and public policy;
- Experience working with and maintaining good relations with LGBT people, youth, national, international, as well as counterparts and beneficiaries (e.g. International and Local NGOs and government) representatives; and
- Strong IT skills.
Applications must be submitted via email no later than March 25, 2022 to:
Director, Human Resource Management & Development
Ministry of Health & Wellness
10A Chelsea Avenue, Kingston 10
Email address: jobapplications.moh@gmail.com
Please note that responses will be sent to short- listed applicants only