M & E Officer – East Africa Region Forest Programme

Position: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Programme: Regional Forest Programme 
Reports to: Regional Forest Programme Coordinator

Supervises: None

Location: Dar es Salaam

Grade: A2

1. Background
   The Eastern Africa Sustainable Forest Programme builds on foundation laid out by the Terrestrial

Programme under the WWF’s Coastal East Africa Global Initiative (CEA-GI) that was implemented

between 2010 and 2015. Sustainable Forest Programme seek to strengthen regional coordination and

collaboration and scale-up regional interventions by working more closely with Regional Economic

Commissions (RECs). The programme works in 5 countries Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar

and Mozambique with the focus to address illegal trade in timber and embrace regional collaboration

among countries to improve forest governance.

1. Major functions:
   Under the technical guidance of Monitoring & Evaluation Manager and Regional Forest programme
   coordinator;The Monitoring & Evaluation Officer will be responsible for coordinating the systematic
   monitoring of the progress and impact of the WWF East Africa Regional Programme, focused on the
   design, implementation and reporting of a programme monitoring plan. Responsibilities also include
   preparation of annual work plans and supporting reporting and evaluation cycles. The over-riding aim
   is to ensure that indicators required meeting both donor and internal reporting and evaluation
   commitments are consistently met, measured and reported. In support of this, the officer works closely with the programme staff team, partners and third party researchers to ensure that routine data
   collection protocols are maintained.

III. Major duties and responsibilities:

• Prepare, or revise as appropriate, a comprehensive programme monitoring plan, based on
relevant programme documents, funding proposals, log frames and other relevant planning
documents;
• Support the Programme Coordinator by taking the lead in developing and monitoring progress
of annual work plans;
• Maintain a master spreadsheet database for monitoring all progress and impact indicators for
the programme, ensuring the database is updated semi-annually through collective process
involving programme team members, ensuring all are conversant with their roles and
responsibilities on the same;
• Ensure that programme colleagues and member countries are trained in, and aware of, routine
monitoring information and data requirements, monitor actual performance on collection of
that data by the said team, and keep the Programme Coordinator updated on a quarterly basis;
• Oversee the identification and engagement of third party contracted consultants, researchers or
partners in meeting data collection needs of the monitoring plan, where needed, including
drafting of contracts;
• Co-ordinate timely preparation by other team members and partners of inputs required for
technical progress reporting for the WWF network and other donor requirements, and submits
in timely fashion to the Programme Coordinator;
• Support the Communications Officer in production of programme status brochures and
dashboards, to share progress and impact data with stakeholders and interested third parties;
advise on risk-based approaches to managing projects
• Undertake periodic review of the implementation and operation of the monitoring and
reporting mechanism; revising it where appropriate, and preparation of best practices and
lessons learned;
• Under supervision of the Programme Coordinator, support the process of identifying,
contracting and overseeing mid-term and final project evaluations, and ensuring outputs and
recommendation from the same are shared with the staff team and other stakeholders as
relevant, and incorporated into annual work plans and future project design, as appropriate;
• Routinely collect information and photographs during field visits to enable reporting of
individual ‘success stories’ relating to community members that have benefited from WWF
Community Forest Enterprises initiatives;
• Participates and provides technical input in preparation of annual programme budgets;
• Ensuring adherence to Network Standards including championing safeguards and social
policies
• Any other duties as may be required from time to time by the Programme Coordinator or TCO
M&E Manager

1. Profile:
   • Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Forestry/ Forest Economics or Forest Biology. Master’s
   degree will be an added advantage;
   • At least 5 years working experience in monitoring and evaluation relating to natural resources
   management initiatives and/or project cycle management;
   • Experience, training and knowledge in the field of forest conservation monitoring, including
   both data collection and analysis will be a particular added advantage;
   • Experience in ecological and/or socio-economic monitoring or research, including of miombo
   woodlands, coastal forests habitats and/or household socio-economics, and/ or community
   knowledge, attitudes and practices etc. will be an added advantage;
   • Experience of working with CSOs, CBOs, women and youth in Village Forest reserves, TFS
   and forest reserves within core protected areas such as national parks.
   • Proven ability to work independently and deliver high quality, timely outputs; and with
   excellent interpersonal skills and good teamwork spirit;
   • Experience in writing project technical reports and preparing monitoring plans;
   • Willingness to participate in field activities and travel to remote areas within the region;
   • A high level of computer literacy and knowledge of standard computer software packages
   such as Word and Excel. Knowledge of databases (Access); GIS software, particularly the Arc
   suite; and socio-economic data analysis software such as SPSS would be an added advantage;
   • A high level of oral and written fluency in both Kiswahili and English.
2. Working Relationships
   Internal: Working closely with the East Africa Regional Forest programme in 5 countries;
   Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique and Madagascar and SADC region, Interacts and works
   closely and on a regular basis with the WWF TCO team.

External

Liaising closely with relevant partners EAC, SADC CSOs and CBOs within EAC
member countries (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda) and SADC region (Madagascar and
Mozambique).
This job description covers the main tasks and conveys the spirit of the sort of tasks that are
anticipated proactively from staff. Other tasks may be assigned as necessary according to
organizational needs.

Apply by: Friday 29th May, 2020 Apply to: [email protected]