Organizational unit: LWF Nepal/DRR&ERP/3R Project Reports to: Project Manager-3R Project Duty station: LWF Nepal Country Office, with extensive field visit [50%] in project district and VDCS.
Job summary
Under the overall guidance and supervision of Project Manager-3R Project, the PMER Officer for the Nepal Earthquake Recovery, Reconstruction, and Resilience [3R] Project shall work for smooth operation PMER function at project level. In addition the PMER officer will also provide technical assistance and guidance to the MDC officers for smooth operation of PMER system. The PMER Officer carries out tasks in accordance with the policies and systems of Government of Nepal, LWF Nepal and its support agencies. S/he works closely work with other LWF Nepal relevant departments and projects if necessary. S/he will also carry out other duties asked by his/her supervisor and LWF management.
A. Purpose of the job
1. Project Management: Serve as planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting focal point for ACT ALLIANCE/LWF NPL 161 funded project and provide all necessary PMER related technical inputs, guidance and support for these sectors to the LWF and IP project team.
2. Project Implementation: Coordinate, facilitate and work closely with the project team, implementing partners and LWF management in planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of ACT ALLIANCE/LWF NPL 161 funded project in designated district.
3. Thematic support: Ensure the project related PMER activities are well communicated and taken in advice of the thematic and functional heads along. S/He is responsible to provide the necessary project information to the
thematic and functional heads with the necessary technical guidance to the project team, IP and its staff.
4. Coordination: Communicate and coordinate with project team and LWF Nepal management for PMER related tasks and issues.
5. Quality assurance: Ensure quality of the data and information related to the project including timely and qualitative reporting.
B. Specific tasks
1. Develop, implement and institutionalize result based planning, monitoring and evaluation (PMER) system, tools and processes within LWF Nepal and its implementing partner
2. Collect, maintain, update, manage and ensure quality control tests on all incoming data and supervise data entry and data cleaning/editing processes in the project database system
3. Provide and upload project information in the web based systems and ensure the accuracy of the data and files being uploaded
4. Monitor the status of the program implementation and ensure program compliance, accountability as per the results framework and LWF Nepal’s policy; providing timely recommendations for improvement.
5. Appraising and ensuring that the project activities and progress reports are in line with PMER framework of the project and streamlining the partners’ work and documentation.
6. Produce and ensure that the periodic project progress reports are submitted timely and of desired quality
7. Plan and coordinate project reviews and reflection meeting, monitoring visits and evaluations as required by project M&E plan.
8. Assist local partners in developing and maintaining project PMER framework and system and ensure that the project team and local partners are equipped with the required skill to undertake the plan and maintain the system.
9. Collecting best practices, case studies which demonstrate qualitative and quantitative changes over the period.
C. Other Duties:
1. Familiarize her/him with LWF Nepal's policies and procedures like country strategy, country operational program plan (COPP), respective project documents, finance policy, human resource policy, management guidelines, code of conduct, child protection policy, complaint mechanism, accountabilityframework, workforce diversity policy, Results Based PME guideline, gender equality and social inclusion mainstreaming guideline (GESIMO Guideline), human rights based approach to development, AIN social audit guidelines, etc.
2. Familiarize her/him with Nepal Government act, policies and directives, guidelines related to early recovery, livelihood restoration and emergency preparedness/DRR.
3. Ensure compliances of LWF Nepal policies, child protection policy and code of conduct
4. Contribute to strengthen accountability in LWF Nepal.
5. Contribute to strengthen gender and social inclusion in LWF Nepal
6. Contribute to strengthen resource mobilization in LWF Nepal Attend LWF Nepal's forums and meetings as and when required
7. Maintain impartiality from party political influence
8. Carry out other tasks as assigned by the immediate supervisor
D. Qualification and Competencies:
ï‚· Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 5 years of relevant work experience.
ï‚· Strong knowledge on program cycle management, program research, documentation, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning,
ï‚· Strong knowledge and proven experience on developing and analysing logical and conceptual framework.
ï‚· Skills in designing and implementing information management and performance measurement frameworks.
ï‚· Excellent results based report writing skills in Nepali and English,
ï‚· Ability to train partners and staff on developing and maintaining the PMER system,
ï‚· Good skills on data collection, analysis and interpretation,
ï‚· Excellent knowledge and skill with Ms, word, excel, SPSS and online database management system.
Qualified Nepalese individuals are requested to submit your application and CV "mentioning the position applied for and location" with your expected salary and two referees detail to recruitment@lwf.org.np by 27th May, 2016.
Preference will be given to female, members of disadvantaged groups and local candidates. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified for selection process. Canvassing shall lead to automatic disqualification. Telephone enquiries will not be entertained.