Employment Type: Full-time

Contract Duration: 12 months, subject to performance and availability of funds

Number of Positions: 1

Application Deadline: Seven consecutive days from the announcement

Salary: As per the organization’s salary scale

Starting date: Immediately

About FATE

Fana Addis Tiwulid Ethiopia (FATE) is an indigenous, non-profit and non-political civil society organization established in May 2007 and re-registered in 2019 under Ethiopia’s Civil Society Organizations Proclamation No. 1113/2019. FATE works in health, education, youth development, livelihoods, gender equality, protection, governance, social accountability, and peace building and conflict resolution.

FATE seeks to recruit a qualified and motivated Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer to support the effective implementation, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning of its programmes.

Position Summary

The M&E Officer will lead the development and implementation of the project’s monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) system. The officer will ensure that project activities, outputs and outcomes are systematically tracked; data are accurate, timely and disaggregated; progress is assessed against approved indicators and targets; and evidence informs programme decisions, reporting and learning.

The position will support the project “Peacebuilding through Empowering Actors for Reconciliation and Empathy,” implemented in Dawa Chaffa Woreda, with a focus on institutional capacity strengthening, inclusive peacebuilding, conflict prevention, community participation, human rights and protection.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Monitoring, Evaluation and Results Measurement

• Develop and maintain the project MEAL plan, indicator reference sheets, data-collection tools and monitoring schedules.

• Operationalize the approved logical framework, results framework, workplan indicators, baselines and targets.

• Coordinate baseline assessments, periodic monitoring, midterm reviews and endline evaluations.

• Track activity implementation, output delivery and progress toward outcome-level targets.

• Conduct regular field monitoring visits and verify reported results against source documents and field observations.

• Ensure that project indicators are measurable, clearly defined and consistently reported.

2. Data Management and Quality Assurance

• Establish and maintain organized project databases, beneficiary registers, attendance records and indicator-tracking systems.

• Collect, clean, analyze and interpret quantitative and qualitative data using appropriate tools.

• Apply data-quality assurance procedures, including completeness checks, verification, deduplication and consistency checks.

• Disaggregate data by sex, age, disability, displacement status, location and other relevant characteristics.

• Ensure that direct beneficiaries are counted accurately and repeat participation is not double-counted.

• Maintain secure records and protect confidential information, particularly information concerning GBV, displacement and protection referrals.

3. Accountability and Community Feedback

• Establish or strengthen accessible feedback and complaints mechanisms for project participants and communities.

• Document feedback, concerns and recommendations and track their resolution within agreed timelines.

• Support participatory monitoring involving women, youth, persons with disabilities, internally displaced people, returnees and other marginalized groups.

• Assess whether community members participate meaningfully and influence project decisions, not merely attend activities.

• Escalate safeguarding, protection and other serious concerns through established confidential reporting procedures.

4. Reporting, Learning and Adaptive Management

• Prepare monthly monitoring updates, quarterly progress reports and other reports required by management and donors.

• Provide accurate indicator data, analysis, case studies, lessons learned and supporting evidence for narrative reports.

• Maintain an action tracker for recommendations arising from monitoring visits, assessments, stakeholder meetings and review sessions.

• Facilitate quarterly reflection and learning meetings with project staff, local partners and relevant stakeholders.

• Identify implementation gaps, emerging risks and underperforming indicators and recommend corrective actions.

• Document successful practices and practical lessons in peacebuilding, inclusive dialogue, youth participation, institutional coordination and conflict-sensitive communication.

5. Capacity Building and Coordination

• Train and mentor project staff, community facilitators, volunteers and relevant partners on data collection, reporting, indicator tracking and accountability.

• Coordinate with woreda-level government offices, local civil society organizations, community structures and other stakeholders to verify progress and strengthen evidence use.

• Promote consistent use of approved tools, definitions and reporting procedures across project activities.

• Support donor monitoring visits, assessments, evaluations and programme learning events as required.

6. Compliance, Ethics and Safeguarding

• Ensure that monitoring and evaluation activities comply with organizational policies, donor requirements and applicable data-protection standards.

• Apply informed consent, confidentiality, safeguarding, protection from sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (PSEAH), gender equality, disability inclusion and conflict-sensitive approaches.

• Ensure that data collection does not expose participants or communities to retaliation, stigma, discrimination or other harm.

• Report suspected data manipulation, fraud, safeguarding violations or serious ethical concerns through the appropriate organizational channels.

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Economics, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Public Health, Project Management or a related field. A relevant master’s degree is an advantage.

• At least 3 years of relevant professional experience in monitoring and evaluation, programme quality, research, accountability or project data management, preferably within civil society or development organizations.

• Demonstrated experience developing or implementing MEAL plans, logical frameworks, indicator-tracking systems and data-collection tools.

• Experience conducting baseline assessments, monitoring visits, evaluations, surveys, focus group discussions and key-informant interviews.

• Proven ability to analyze quantitative and qualitative data and prepare clear, evidence-based reports.

• Experience with peacebuilding, conflict prevention, governance, human rights, gender equality, protection or community-based programmes is an advantage.

• Familiarity with donor-funded project monitoring and results-based management.

• Experience using data-management and analysis tools such as Excel and KoboToolbox or ODK. Knowledge of SPSS, Stata, Power BI or similar tools is an advantage.

• Excellent written and spoken English; knowledge of Amharic is required. Knowledge of Afaan Oromo or other relevant local languages is an advantage.

• Willingness and ability to travel regularly to project implementation areas.

8. Key Competencies

• Strong analytical, critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent report-writing, documentation and presentation skills.

• High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and integrity.

• Strong facilitation, communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work independently, meet deadlines and manage multiple priorities.

• Commitment to gender equality, inclusion, human rights, safeguarding and accountability.

• Professional integrity, confidentiality, impartiality and respect for diverse communities.

9. Performance Expectations

The successful candidate will be expected to deliver:

• A functional MEAL plan and indicator-tracking system aligned with the approved project results framework.

• Timely baseline, monitoring, review and endline data collection and analysis.

• Accurate, verified and disaggregated project performance data.

• Regular monitoring reports and documented corrective actions.

• Functional community feedback and complaints tracking.

• Evidence-based learning products and recommendations that inform programme improvement.

How To Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should submit:

1. An updated CV and A cover letter explaining their suitability for the position in one PDF document

Applications should be submitted through fate.infodesk@gmail.com using the subject line “Application – Monitoring and Evaluation Officer.”

Application deadline: Seven consecutive days from the announcement

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. FATE reserves the right to verify the information provided by applicants.

Equal Opportunity and Safeguarding Statement

FATE is committed to equal opportunity, gender equality, inclusion, safeguarding and the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. Qualified women and candidates from underrepresented and marginalized groups are encouraged to apply. All recruitment decisions will be based on merit and organizational requirements.

The selected candidate will be required to comply with FATE’s safeguarding, code of conduct, anti-fraud, confidentiality and other applicable organizational policies. Reference checks and other appropriate pre-employment screening may be conducted in accordance with organizational procedures.