Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator
Start date: March 2025

Organizational Background

Founded by a group of committed Kenyans, Lwala unlocks the potential of communities to advance their own comprehensive well-being and improve health outcomes. We support communities to design, implement, and evaluate solutions to their most pressing health challenges. To address systemic inequities in health outcomes–and a health system that often leaves communities out of decision-making–Lwala deploys a community-led health model that has 4 pillars: professionalized community health workers (CHWs), community health committees, health facilities, and data. Lwala is an organization rooted in the communities we serve. When it comes to improving health outcomes, we believe that communities should be in the driver's seat–no one can identify challenges and solutions better than communities themselves. Our model centers communities as leaders and change-makers breaking cycles of inequity.

Job Summary

Lwala Community Alliance is seeking a Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator to enhance impact measurement and data-driven decision-making, with a focus on Adolescent and Youth Program activities. Reporting to the M&E Manager, the Coordinator will support M&E system implementation, data collection, analysis, and reporting to improve program outcomes.

The ideal candidate should have strong analytical skills and the ability to translate data into actionable insights for continuous program improvement. Experience in M&E systems within an international NGO context is highly desirable.

Roles and Responsibilities

1. Data Monitoring, Analysis, Reviews and Support on Research and Learning

i) Data Monitoring & Reporting

• Support both the Adolescent and Youth departments on R&L activities for timely and adequate reporting i.e. Donor reports, Insider reports, Departmental reports
• Work with Health Records Department at the sub counties and County to ensure complete and accurate Monthly data visualization and feedback for AY program
• Routinely review AY data for Program reporting
• Support in training enumerators and Service providers on AY data collection tools and processes and reporting

ii) Data Analysis

• Assist with analysis of AY Program data and performance i.e. (Mentoring programs, School Health, SBCC, commodity, FP data etc)
• Collaborate with M&E Manager and AY Program coordinators in making departmental presentations on program performance related to Program Indicators, targets or other ongoing data management requirements

iii) Data Reviews/Audits

• Assist in organizing and facilitating periodic AY Program data reviews and data quality checks as stipulated in the R&L and AY work plans.
• Provide support to Program Research and Learning initiatives through: i. Facilitating planned Programmes assessments, surveys, and evaluations

iii) Analysing data related to assessments, surveys, and evaluations

• Providing feedback to Teams from assessments, surveys, and evaluations

2. Reporting of AY Program Indicators in the Community

• Undertake ongoing data cleaning of eCHIS data and other platforms, as needed.
• Follow all policies and protocols supporting the implementation of the program
• Report to the M&E Manager and Program coordinators on any issues of irregular documentation or challenges with the eCHIS.
• Recommend improvement on AY programmatic metrics.

3. Knowledge Management

• Maintain regular documentation of systematized program data for new and revised indicators for Adolescent and Youth Program.
• Generate new ideas on data collection and analysis for improving AY Programs.

4. Other Duties

• Take charge of other responsibilities as may be assigned by the supervisor

Education and Experience Profile

• Graduate degree in public Health, statistics, Social Sciences, computer science and equivalent
• At least 2 years of professional experience in the field of Monitoring and Evaluation
• Knowledge of major quantitative & qualitative monitoring methodologies and proven ability to design monitoring instrumentation tools
• Excellent coordination and communication skills
• Broad experience in the design and implementation of capacity building activities in M&E
• High level of proficiency in Windows Excel and/ or Statistical Software (SPSS, STATA)
• Advanced skills in data analysis presentation and report writing
• Excellent analytical skills combined with a proactive, energetic approach to problem solving
• Understanding of Health systems especially within the context of adolescents and young people
• Monitoring and evaluation skills including technical quantitative and qualitative skills
• Demonstrated experience in visualization of data and information
• Demonstrate experience with research, learning, monitoring and evaluation settings

Personal Attributes

• Commitment to impact – The individual should be passionate about Lwala’s mission and the population we serve, and relentless in pursuit of generating evidence and learning to understand our impact as we test our community-based innovations and scale with government and partners.
• Communication skills – Strong written and verbal communications skills are essential, in particular, the ability to communicate complex thoughts and ideas simply and effectively and tailor communications to the audience. Experience in scientific writing is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to build other people’s skills using facilitative, coaching and co-creation approaches
• Advanced conceptual, analytical and strategic thinking skills

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.

How to Apply

Please send your application letter and CV as one attachment to: Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator Vacancy

The deadline for application is Wednesday 24th February 2025.

Lwala Community Alliance is an equal opportunity employer and does not ask for fees at any stage of the recruitment process. Successful candidates must abide by Lwala’s Anti-Fraud & Bribery Policy and Safeguarding Policy, including protection of children and vulnerable adults.