Monitoring and Evaluation Officer / Education Project at Whizz Education

Job description

The Role

To accurately measure, report on and support the progress and impact of Whizz Education’s activities, there is a need to engage an M+E Officer to support our project teams. The role will be an integral part of our work in Kenya, enabling us to demonstrate how and where we have contributed to accelerated learning in the communities where we operate. Whizz Education is one of the 4 companies implementing iMlango Project in Kenya. Through IMlango, Whizz provides digital resources in mathematics - backed with training - to support teachers to deliver whole-class lessons across 205 rural schools. Additionally, each child in 139 of those schools is individually tutored in maths within internet-enabled computer labs through the leading virtual maths tutor, Maths-Whizz.

Mission for the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer:

Provide high quality monitoring and evaluation support at field, county, project and consortium level within iMlango and other related Kenya-based projects. The successful candidate will be the lead for M&E activities across all projects for Whizz in Africa.

Key responsibilities

• Data analysis
  • Run SQL queries to extract relevant information from Whizz database
  • Produce school/county-level data analysis to support the work of Customer Success Managers
  • Produce project-level data analysis to inform strategic direction and progress
  • Conduct quantitative analysis of specific initiatives within the project to demonstrate their impact
  • Analyse trends and patterns within the Maths-Whizz data to help demonstrate impact and identify risks to the project
• M+E
  • Play an active role within the iMlango m+e steering group, representing Whizz within the Consortium and contributing towards discussions related to the project MEL Framework and Theory of Change
  • Develop internal tools for extracting and recording quantitative and qualitative data
• Reporting
  • Conduct analysis of data to support quarterly donor reports, evaluating progress against logframe targets
  • Prepare detailed analysis (reports, infographics etc.) of project activities to inform team meetings and discussions and share successes
  • Monitor and prepare weekly and monthly KPIs, including proactively identifying risks and suggesting remedies
• General project duties
  • Produce and contribute to papers and reports which demonstrate the success of Maths-Whizz
  • Participate in overall projects’ activity planning
  • Contribute to wider Whizz Education’s activities

Outcomes:

• Analysis reports produced illustrating impact of Whizz activities in Kenya
• Donor m+e reporting requirements successfully completed
• Project staff effectively supported at all levels in relation to data and m+E
• Project risks averted through skillful interpretation of data
• M+E tools created which meaningfully capture Whizz progress

Desired skills and competencies

Education, Experience and Skills set required:

• Statistical training, as evidenced by degree qualifications
• At least 5 years’ direct experience of monitoring and evaluation within a project
• Proven ability to communicate data to non-specialist audiences and within both academic and commercial contexts
• Experience in impact evaluation
• Experience in baseline and end-line design, including supervising an evaluation team
• Excellent application of Excel for data processing
• Proficient in statistical computing scripts/packages, e.g. Python, R, MATLAB
• Knowledge of SQL desirable

Personal specifications:

• Proactive in offering analysis on project data and generally assisting with data-driven decision-making
• Analytically minded; enjoy solving problems and searching for trends
• Can see the big picture of data but also engage with the small details
• See data as a powerful storytelling tool, but also appreciate its limits
• Recognise that all data is situated within a particular context and are cautious in drawing inferences
• Confident and excited by the prospecting of engaging diverse stakeholders including business owners and the Education Officers, both at National and County level