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TechnoServe Background

Everyone deserves the opportunity to build a better future. This simple idea has been at the heart of TechnoServe’s work around the world for over 50 years. TechnoServe is a pioneer in leveraging the power of business and markets to create sustainable pathways out of poverty.

The low-income communities in which we work are full of enterprising people. Their small-scale farms and businesses are the keys to economic development. But they face many challenges: low literacy, lack of access to jobs and markets, unpredictable political dynamics and, increasingly, the effects of climate change. For many women and young people, the challenges are even more daunting. Working with TechnoServe staff, people around the world are lifting themselves out of poverty. The results are amazing...when incomes increase and living conditions for families get better, they are able to access health care and education previously out of reach. Communities and even whole countries are better off.

Program Description

The Rwanda Ikawa Nziza Cyane (INC) project seeks to equip coffee washing stations (CWS), exporters, and government agencies with new tools, strategies, and policies to drive greater efficiencies and unlock new market opportunities in specialty coffee. Funded by the European Union in conjunction with Rwanda’s MINECOFIN, the Rwanda INC project will run for 4 years beginning in November, 2020. Some of the primary project components include (1) digital tools for CWS business management and farm extension monitoring; (2) new mechanisms for input financing and distribution (e.g., fertilizer, lime, new varieties); and (3) a strengthened coffee value chain through industry briefs, strategies, and proposed quality standards for uptake by government and exporters.

Job Summary:

TechnoServe seeks a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to manage all aspects of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for the INC project. The M&E Specialist shall implement strategies designed to assure the quality of data collection, collation, entry, analysis and reporting through consistent application of the existing monitoring and evaluation Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and other guidelines.

Primary Functions & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring and evaluation program performance in accordance with the logical framework and reporting requirements.
• Receive, review, analyze, validate, enter/code and store various program data streams as submitted by field operations staff. Prepare and collate these into relevant formats for preparing reports and feedback for decision support
• Work with our Senior Business Advisor and Tech team to implement and monitor the Digital Farm Support Extension Management System, a platform to capture and report or field best practices data
• Share analyses and trends with program team members to help synchronize program decision-making processes with M&E results.
• Ensure M&E information is shared and flows transparently within the program team and to other organizational levels as appropriate.
• Work closely with the Program Manager and Regional MEL Advisor to help ensure that program work plans are on target to meet deliverables in a timely and effective manner.
• Contribute to TechnoServe’s understanding of the effectiveness of technical training packages.

Basic Qualifications:

• Qualifications at degree level in business management, economics, statistics, development studies or other relevant areas of study.
• At least 3 years of experience with M&E methods and approaches, including designing, planning and implementing M&E systems, analyzing and reporting using a logical framework and other strategic planning approaches.
• Proven ability to work with various M&E methods and approaches.
• Experience working with agricultural programs.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills is a must.
• Ability to generate innovative solutions in work situations.
• Ability to manipulate data using quantitative software such as SPSS and STATA preferred.

Required Languages 

• Fluency in both Kinyarwanda and English is required.

Travel 

• Undertake visits to the field as necessary to enforce and validate data collection techniques and to identify where adaptations might be needed so as to ensure continuous quality of program data.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong planning skills and ability to work independently within agreed work plans and timelines and generate solutions to changing situations.
• Good communication skills that allow regular interface with a diverse team both in the field and in back room operations.
• Willingness to spend time working and traveling in project sites located in rural areas.

We encourage all qualified individuals who share TechnoServe's vision of improving the lives of others through proven business solutions to apply. With our commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and affirmative action employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, HIV/AIDS status, protected veteran status, disability and all other protected classes.

We are also proud of our commitment to protecting staff, partners, and beneficiaries from abuse and exploitation and thoroughly vet all final candidates through rigorous background and reference checks.

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