The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is now recruiting two full time Livelihoods Impact Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officers for its Heartlands Program in Africa. Each position is for a two-year term, and on completion the aim is to have established sufficient internal capacity to develop and maintain the M&E work or to have secured further funding to maintain these as dedicated positions. The positions will be located in Nairobi (covering eastern and central Africa Heartlands) and Johannesburg (covering southern African Heartlands). AWF wishes to roll out methodologies developed for baseline data collection and livelihoods impact monitoring across its Program in 11 countries, focusing on the impact of land management and enterprise interventions. The M&E Officers will work with each of the eight Heartland teams to refine and implement AWF protocols and methodology in key sites, and to ensure sound evaluation of and learning from impact findings.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
Work with Heartland Directors and teams to identify priority sites for livelihoods impact monitoring, and leadership for agreeing and implementing the process, timing and priority indicators with partners and partner communities.
Work with AWF Monitoring and Evaluation team and with Socio-Economics Working Group to develop detailed methodologies and tools and to ensure a good fit between the livelihoods monitoring indicators and AWF PIMA (the overall AWF M&E system)
Collect baseline and monitoring surveys in target sites, analyse and discuss findings, prepare reports and agree ongoing monitoring frameworks.Facilitate team learning from monitoring findings.Present findings within AWF and at other forums as requested.
Build capacity in Program and Heartland teams to undertake ongoing monitoring.
Liaise with other organizations to share lessons learned
Qualifications:
Education
üReputable degree in relevant field.
Experience
üAt least 5 years relevant experience of applied socio-economics work and/or research at field level in conservation and/or development in Africa, including direct experience of field based monitoring & evaluation (M&E) framework design and data collection.üGood understanding of the international discourse on livelihoods and poverty reduction in relation to conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.üSolid experience in participatory approaches to M&EüDemonstrable ability to work well with field teams and facilitate analysis and learning based on impact monitoring. üDemonstrable commitment to AWF mission and understanding
Skills & Knowledge
üOutstanding data collection, analytical, writing and interpersonal skills;üAbility to communicate effectively with diverse conservation & development stakeholders;üAdvanced computer and internet skills including the use of data analysis software; Knowledge of GIS technology a distinct advantage.üComfortable with working as part of a team;üAbility and willingness to fulfill AWF administrative and accounting procedures;üFluency in spoken and written English required.
üCompetency in French (for Nairobi position), Portuguese (for Johannesburg position) and/or African languages an advantage
To apply for the above position, see the job description or send an email to humanresources@awf.org.
