M&E Officer

AMIDEAST is an international, non-profit, educational organization in the West Bank and Gaza with offices throughout the Middle East and North Africa. AMIDEAST is recruiting for a Monitoring & Evaluation Officer to be based in its Ramallah office. The selected candidate will be responsible for collecting data and analyzing and presenting findings on the implementation and outcomes of programs in the West Bank.

Responsibilities:

The Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Officer will be based at the AMIDEAST office in Ramallah. Specifically, the M&E Officer is responsible for the following duties:
-Designing, developing and implementing the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan;
-Ensuring continuous integration of M&E activities into program activities;
-Contributing data and information gleaned from project monitoring and tracking to annual work plans and quarterly and annual reports;
-Developing surveys and interview/focus group questions and forms;
-Overseeing collection and maintenance of program’s statistical data;
-Running statistical analysis on SPSS and Microsoft Excel;
-Serving as liaison with external program evaluators and vendors, including the monitoring of M&E sub-contracts and vendor deliverables;
-Overseeing collection and entry of program mapping data;
-Coordinating closely with the AMIDEAST senior leadership to manage a cooperative, productive relationship with various departments of the Ministry of Education and Higher

Education;
-Visiting schools to gather M&E data and provide feedback based on data; and
-Supervising 1-2 junior M&E staff.

Qualifications:
-Bachelor’s degree in education; statistics; or relevant discipline
-At least 3 years of experience in education and/or donor-funded programs
-Excellent English writing skills and strong Arabic
-Experience with Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel, and experience with SPSS preferred
-Ability to work in a team environment cutting across multiple departments
-Ability to maintain confidentiality
-Precise attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to multi-task

Please send a cover letter and a CV to [email protected] , indicating the position (M&E
Officer) in the subject line.

Only individuals selected for further consideration will be contacted. The closing date for
applications is 4:00 pm, Thursday, July 12, 2012.