Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant

Catholic Relief Services is an international aid agency and has been present in the Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza since 1961. The CRS JWBG country program currently supports development/relief programs and activities in the sectors of civil society, humanitarian assistance, youth development, education, and peace & justice.

CRS is seeking highly qualified candidates for the following position:

Position Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant (M&E APO)
Reports to: PCAP Program Director and M&E Officer in Jerusalem
Locations: Gaza Field Office

Job Summary:
As a member of the program quality team working in the area of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), the M&E Assistant’s primary function is to support Palestinian Community Assistance Program (PCAP) capacity in monitoring and evaluation by developing and designing comprehensive, cost effective and a user friendly M&E system that will lead to improved program quality and reporting and provide necessary guidance to the program staff in implementation of the M&E system. The M&E Assistant Officer has to effectively manage relationships with other CRS/JWBG offices, program staff and implementing partners in Gaza.
M&E AO is also responsible for provision of M&E technical input into development of new project proposals, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses and recommends new approaches or strengthening of current practices. Furthermore, if needed M&E AO should lead participatory evaluation efforts in Gaza Program and sharing of institutional knowledge and learning with other CRS/JWBG offices and EME. The M&E AO reports to PCAP Program Director and to M&E Officer in CRS Jerusalem office CRS program in Gaza seeks to establish and implement M&E system that will support internal management, program/project performance and data/facts-based decision making. Additionally, CRS seeks to increase its capacity to design and implement relevant and meaningful M&E systems as part of proposals to donors, so the program is able to demonstrate results to donors thus becoming more competitive. This position is part of CRS/JWBG Program Quality team. The M&E Officer does not make strategic decisions; rather through his/her efforts decisions made by others are informed decisions supported by data and best practices

Position Requirements and Qualifications:
-Graduate degree in a directly related field, such as operations research, quantitative analysis, etc.;
significant work experience in a directly related field will be considered in lieu of graduate degree.
-Three to five years of progressively responsible and directly relevant professional experience; at least two years of working directly in M&E.
-Demonstrated M&E field experience; skilled in collecting, manipulating, synthesizing and analyzing data.
-Strong in report writing techniques.
-High level of English-language proficiency (speaking, reading, writing).
-Excellent analytic and computer skills; skilled in MS Office Suite including Word, Excel, Outlook,
PowerPoint and Access.
-Experience with management information systems.

Interested candidates with relevant education and experience are encouraged to send their CV and a cover letter by email to [email protected] and must indicate the position title and location within the subject line of the email to which they are applying (i.e. Admin Officer -Gaza) no later than November 18, 2010.