Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Coordinator, the M&E Officer will have the following responsibilities:
- Manage the day-to-day implementation of all M&E activities within the SET project
- Support design, analysis and writing up of M&E products
Tasks
Under the supervision of the M&E Coordinator, the M&E Officer will perform the following tasks:
Monitoring
- Support the design and potential revisions of the monitoring system in close collaboration with the national M&E coordinator
- Manage the overall data collection, support analysis and prepare draft reports.
- Ensure timely monitoring of project activities and availability of quality data for decision-making and reporting
- Ensure that all M&E tools and guidelines are up-to-date and accessible, as appropriate.
- Manage and update the project database and visualization dashboards
- Review, consolidate, and do basic analysis of collected data and information
- In close collaboration with the national M&E coordinator, lead the capacity development of project staff and partners on M&E practices, including usage of tools and ensuring data quality
- Work closely with and support the technical team with relevant information on progress, achievements, and challenges faced to facilitate evidence-based decision making for project implementation.
Evaluations and reports
- Support the design of studies in close collaboration with the M&E coordinator and manage their implementation
- Manage the implementation of studies, including evaluations
- Prepare inputs to evaluation and other study reports
- Prepare project related, written reports and presentations aligning with the logframe in collaboration with M&E coordinator, technical staff, and partners.
Learning
- Facilitate integration of knowledge management into the M&E system by documenting best practices, lessons learnt, innovative approaches, and challenges
- Organize data review, learning and reflection workshops internally and with project partners
Other tasks
- Work with the M&E Coordinator in establishing budgets and annual plans
- Provide inputs to SET reporting to the Government and SDC
- Integrate Swisscontact principles (gender equality, including marginalized groups, climate change resilience, etc) into the M&E system.
- Follow Swisscontact’s rules and procedures such as the Code of Conduct (CoC) and Country Manual.
- Perform other tasks as agreed with the M&E Coordinator.
Required qualifications, experience and competencies
- Bachelor’s degree in monitoring and evaluation, statistics, economics, computer science, data science, or related studies.
- First work experience in quantitative and/or qualitative research in monitoring and evaluation, preferably in development projects.
- Practical experience supporting or implementing M&E systems, including routine monitoring and reporting, is an advantage.
- Experience across the data value chain (data collection, cleaning, analysis, and visualisation).
- Experience using digital data collection tools (e.g. KoboToolbox, ODK or similar) is an asset.
- Experience managing project databases and basic data visualisation dashboards is an advantage.
- Exposure to supporting studies or evaluations (e.g. baseline, endline, tracer studies) is an asset.
- Experience supporting capacity development of staff or partners on M&E practices and data quality is an advantage.
- Interest in or basic understanding of learning, reflection, and evidence-based decision-making processes.
- Basic understanding of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and climate change considerations in project work.
- High attention to detail and strong commitment to data quality.
- Good level of oral and written English and Swahili
How to Apply
Interested candidates are invited to submit CVs with a motivation letter/cover letter in English including three (3) referees to recruitment.set@swisscontact.org not later than 17.00 (EAT) on 12th June 2026. The CV and/or the cover letter must include the expected monthly gross salary expressed in TSh.
Please note that:
- The consortium respects gender equality and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Applications received after the closing date and time will not be considered
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview
