Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant

About the role

The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Assistant supports the Betso Charity Foundation (BCF) by reporting directly to the M&E Officer. The role helps execute M&E frameworks that improve programme quality throughout the project cycle and verifies and showcases the positive outcomes for beneficiaries.

Key responsibilities

• Keep the beneficiary database current and log all feedback and details; generate regular community feedback reports and visual aids.
• Assist with data collection and analysis and help communities take part in designing, monitoring and evaluating programmes.
• Document lessons learned and best practices with the M&E Officer, and refine workflows for data collection, management, analysis and reporting.
• Coordinate with project M&E officers to keep archives of monitoring and evaluation documents organised.
• Translate data between local languages and English as needed.
• Distribute field tools, collect completed forms, verify data and record submissions in logs.
• Clean data, enter it into the project database, update performance trackers and help populate official reporting platforms.

Required profile

• Degree or diploma in Statistics, M&E, Economics, Social Sciences, Information Technology or a related field; additional M&E training preferred.
• At least two years of practical experience in M&E or data management, with an intermediate institute certificate or equivalent.
• Proven experience leading participatory assessments and surveys.
• Working knowledge of HAP Standards and the Core Humanitarian Standards, and strict adherence to data protection and confidentiality.
• Strong negotiation, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work with diverse cultural groups and vulnerable populations.

Required skills

• Qualitative and quantitative data collection, including mobile data tools.
• Data analysis and professional report writing.