Background
Empowering Farmers Foundation (EFF) is a non-profit organization that supports small-scale farmers in Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia to become wealthier, climate adaptive & food secure. In Kenya, EFF operates in Kilifi County, employing over 80 full-time staff who manage and implement our projects. Our key partner and funder for this project is ETG Climate Solutions.
Role
EFF Kenya is looking for a dedicated M&E Officer to lead monitoring, verification and reporting for the Tukuze Kilifi project. Tukuze Kilifi is a carbon agroforestry project targeting the planting of millions of trees every year amongst thousands of smallholder households in Kilifi County. As of the 2025 planting season, we would have achieved the production, distribution and planting of over 2.5 million cashew and moringa trees amongst approximately 30,000 households across 15 wards of Kilifi County. The M&E Officer will be responsible for developing and implementing all M&E activities for the project and assist the Program Manager in preparing reports on all data and project activities. The M&E Officer will also be working closely with the ETG Climate Solution’s Kenya Agroforestry Monitoring Manager to ensure quality monitoring deliverables are met.
Location: Kilifi, Kenya
Responsibilities
Core duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Design the project M&E system, including the logframe, indicators and guidelines and tools for efficient data collection and analysis
- Assist and train other project staff in understating M&E guidelines, protocols and tools
- Conduct and coordinate quantitative and qualitative data collection campaigns, covering both biophysical and socio-economic topics, using digital data collection tools
- Clean raw data, assess data quality and analyze/ visualize data using standard software (MS Excel) and statistical applications
- Assist with the production of regular detailed progress reports to the Programme Manager
- Coordinate collection and quality check of georeferenced (GPS-based) polygons covering all agroforestry implementation sites
- Prepare the M&E budget and workplans for agroforestry project and carbon monitoring activities
- Lead proper data and metadata storage & management of all M&E data
- Provide advice to the Managers on improving project performance using M&E findings
- Perform other duties as may be assigned by the Project Manager
Required Qualifications
- A degree in monitoring & evaluation, statistics, natural sciences, natural resource management or related field
- A minimum of 3 years’ M&E experience working in relevant sector with smallholder farmers in Kenya
- Experience in developing logical frameworks (logframes), work plans, SMART indicators, milestones and targets
- Experience with biophysical data collection (e.g. planted seedling survival & vegetation assessments) and socio-economic data collection (e.g. household surveys, focus group discussions, key informant interviews)
- Experience with digital data collections tools (e.g. ODK, KoboCollect, GIS Cloud)
- Computer literate and proficient in use of Windows Office (Excel, Word and Teams)
- Experience in handling and manipulating spatial data & GIS software (e.g. QGIS, ArcGIS)
- Experience with dataset cleaning & quality control
- Experience with (statistical) data analysis methods and software (e.g. SPSS, R) is a plus
- Experience with data processing (analysis, producing graphs & reports)
- Demonstrable skills in coordinating, training, reporting and communicating
- Fluent in English (both speaking and writing)
- Flexible in terms of traveling, living condition and work hours
- Must be a citizen of Kenya
Required Attributes
- Focused, disciplined and determined
- Self-motivated
- Structured and analytic mindset
- Innovative and collaborative
- Patient and flexible, particularly in cross-cultural environments
- Work well under tight deadlines
- Good interpersonal skills
- Commitment to the mission and vision of EFF
How to Apply
Deadline: 15 March, 2025
Submission: Please share your CV, cover letter, and three references with Emily Matole, EFF Kenya’s Finance & Operations Manager, via email at [email protected]
