Monitoring and Evaluation Manager at Palladium International

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To address these failures, KIM will create a sustainable, market-based ecosystem for finance and investment through mobilizing capital into the horticulture, dairy, livestock, and clean energy value chains (VCs), and facilitating an enabling environment conducive to investment. This program will mobilize private capital into target VCs through innovative smart incentives and building partnerships with key actors that can deliver access to market, know-how, and technology to drive VC competitiveness. Concurrently, KIM will lead policy reform efforts focused on removing barriers inhibiting large-scale investment into the target sectors, therefore unlocking further finance. The two objectives of KIM will result in the project serving as an investment platform that mobilizes substantial capital from the public and private sectors and builds partnerships between stakeholders in the financial ecosystem, ultimately contributing to USAID's overall goal of fostering broad-based, sustained, and inclusive economic growth in Kenya.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Manager will lead the effort of collecting and analyzing data that will ultimately evaluate the impact of USAID's intervention to facilitate significant and new investment. S/he will be responsible for tracking and aggregating all project data to support the team in evaluating the project's progress.

• Assist in developing the project's M&E plan which includes PMP and knowledge management and learning plan;
• Coordinate the finalization of the AMELP, AMP, and QASP;
• Support technical teams in collecting, aggregating, and analyzing baseline data in the first several months of the project;
• Advise in the designing and planning for evaluations, studies and assessments, ensuring there are adequate financial resources;
• Coordinate Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) efforts throughout the life of the project at regular intervals to review and encourage use of data in resource allocation decision by technical team members
• Support the review and completion process for all project deliverables;
• Maintain impeccable M&E files and substantiating information on data reported to USAID on the project's shared drive that can be easily accessible by project team members and available for project auditors (i.e. accurate, updated, etc.);
• Coordinate collection and compilation of information on quarterly, annual and life of project indicators and outputs from team leaders, and progress toward planned activities;
• Finalize and continuously update progress against the project's Performance Management Plan (PMP), and maintain all files related to substantiating progress against PMP performance indicators;
• Respond to requests for information on the project and on project performance as needed;
• Enter required training-related data into the US Government's TraiNet software;
• Work closely with technical unit heads to track investment portfolio information and progress;
• Support the Opportunities team in tracking performance on policy reform efforts to align with USAID policies and requirements.
• Education: Master's degree in a development field, social science, economics, or relevant disciplin;
• Prior work experience: minimum of 5 years (7 preferred) of progressively responsible professional experience in a performance monitoring and/or evaluation role with an international development organization.