American Red Cross Vacancy: Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Reporting Officer, Jakarta

Position / Job Title: Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Reporting Officer

Location of work: Jakarta

Report to: Monitoring Evaluation Reporting and Health Coordinator

The American Red Cross (Amcross) helps vulnerable people around the world to prevent, prepare for and respond to disasters, complex humanitarian emergencies and life-threatening health conditions. It is a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and works closely with Palang Merah Indonesia (PMI).

Currently Amcross supports programs in Aceh, Jakarta, West and Central Java, Bali and NTB (Lombok). Amcross works with the Indonesia Red Cross (PMI) focusing on 3 program sectors: Disaster Management, Health, and Organizational Development.

Job Purpose

To provide technical assistance and managerial support and inputs to the American Red Cross supported program with the Palang Merah Indonesia (PMI)

Role and responsibilities

• To help program staffs in developing standardized recording and reporting tools/formats to be used for monitoring and management purposes that enabling them to track progress, achievements, challenges, and lesson learn of all ongoing projects.
• To collate, review and provide feedback to program staffs (managers/coordinators) on all monthly and quarterly report, including verifying data/figures within the reports. 
• To ensure complete, high quality, and timely monthly report submission (Country representative, Sub Recipient Monitoring Checklist); quarterly report (Quarterly Project Report, ITT and PEAF indicators sheet).
• To develop monthly and quarterly summary of reports that reflecting status of all projects within the Indonesia delegation both programmatically as and financially in order to provide project information required for external and internal use (i.e., power point presentation and program summaries paper, 2-3 page fact sheets, etc). 
• To provide technical support to both ARC and PMI staffs in order to strengthen their reporting skills and also emphasizing the culture of “utilization of information for action/ evidence based planning” for program management purpose.
• To develop and maintain ARC project database and information dash board as well as facilitating all project team and or relevant parties to have access to the data whenever relevant both programmatic and financial. 
• To provide technical support to assist ARC program staffs as well as to PMI staff at the head quarter, targeted chapters & branches in conducting project evaluation (midterm and end line) and including baseline data collectionat the beginning of the project.
• To conduct visit to project sites on regular basis to observe the project activities and provide feedback and recommendation for quality assurance of project activities and at the same time providing relevant support to field staffs.
• Work with program team in designing project, particularly to ensure that all project log frames, indicators, M&E plans, and tools are standardized. 
• To undertake other relevant duties as might be required from time to time from supervisor.

Core and Functional Competencies:

• Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principlesof a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the M&ER position.
• Enhancing processes or products by generating new ideas and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things particularly in M&E and project management.
• Abilityto identify, to package, and communicate relevant information for a variety of audiences internally and externally.
• Basic research and analysis by generating new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things
• Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity; self-development, initiative-taking
• Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team effectively, learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others.

Required Skills and Experience:

Education:
Bachelor or Master degree in Statistic, Public Health, Management or other relevant fields of study would be desirable.

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years of professional experience, preferably in the field of development for candidates with Master Degree and 4 years for candidates with Bachelor Degree. 
• Language Requirements: Fluency in written and spoken English is an ABSOLUTE necessity. 
• Solid experience monitoring and producing high quality report of development projects (Example of his/her English report should be submitted when applying on this position)
• Strong knowledge and experience in project management support are essential as well as ability to draft high quality report supported with graphic and statistical summaries.
• Experience in monitoring, evaluation and reporting with a background and interest in the analysis of disaster risk reduction, health and or organizational development issues and related policy matters.
• Excellent analytical skill and advance computer skills required (particularly on Excel, SPSS, Arc View GIS), knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.
• Experience in handling of web based management systems would be highly desirable.

Application procedures:

Please submit your application and curriculum vitae in English not later than 27 May 2014 to recruitment.amcross@gmail.com, placing the job title in the subject line and label your CV with your name (CV max. 200KB size). Only short listed candidates will be notified. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.