CARE began working in Zimbabwe in 1992 in response to a severe regional drought. After establishing a drought mitigation program, CARE began longer term developmental programs with local partners in building small dams, strengthening local microfinance institutions, and launching projects to assist small businesspersons in the rural areas.CARE Zimbabwe’s overall goal is to empower disadvantaged and poor households to meet their basic needs. Programs promote sustainable livelihoods of poor and vulnerable people. CARE International in Zimbabwe is recruiting for an anticipated food security project targeting food insecure areas of Masvingo and Manicaland provinces. This project seeks to achieve sustainable food security with desired high-level objectives of poverty reduction and adaptive and absorptive capacity improved.  The organisation seeks to recruit outstanding candidates who are known for their excellence, professionalism, integrity and who are committed to providing support to vulnerable communities in remote locations of the targeted provinces. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply for the positions posted below, which will be filled upon confirmation of funding availability for the project.

The M&E Lead will be responsible for full-cycle monitoring and evaluation of this program, developing a methodology and tools to design an evaluation. S/he will also ensure timely and accurate reporting as required on program indicators on a quarterly and annual basis. Key duties and Responsibilities •    Develops the overall framework for the project’s M&E systems, in collaboration with USAID and senior project staff, including requirements, reporting, baseline, and evaluation surveys. Develop and monitor the project’s PMP to systematically document project performance for project technical leads and leadership team. •    Facilitates state-of-the-art knowledge management practices and real-time, applied and collaborative learning processes. Generate robust evidence for project and programmatic learning that leads to action, decision-making and influence. •    Collaborates with the Collaboration, Learning, and Adapting Lead, Food Security Technical Coordinator, and Community Visioning Lead to ensure collaboration and learning with other activities in the selected implementation areas. •    Ensures the alignment of M&E activities with program goals and contribute to the development of annual work plans to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities. •    Monitors project activities and tracking these activities against the results framework. •    Conducts field visits for data validation, to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets. •    Coordinates data collection at project sites to monitor program development and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data and captures and documents lessons learned; champions the scaling up best practices. •    Generates monthly indicator reports and tracking progress against key indicators. •    Ensures timely and accurate submission of project activities to donor, including progress against targets set in the award agreement and annual work plan, quarterly, and annual reports. Collaborates with the Chief of Party and other senior team members to compile and submit reports to the donor. •    Provides technical leadership and support to project and partner staff in planning and implementing M&E systems and activities, data-based program decision-making, and results reporting. •    Supervises, mentors, and builds capacity of the project’s M&E team. •    Develops and implements effective monitoring tools and approaches to demonstrate the effectiveness of project interventions.

•    Master’s degree in economics, agricultural economics, statistics, bio-statistics, sociology, anthropology, nutrition or other relevant subject with strong quantitative background. •    A minimum of 8 years of M&E experience in international development projects with a Master's degree or 6 years of M&E experience with a PhD. •    Experience leading the M&E function of a large project is required. •    Previous experience working on a DFSA, DFAP, MYAP, or Title II program is required. •    Strong conceptual knowledge about theories of change (TOC), logic model, food and nutrition security indicators, M&E plan, data quality assurance, data utilization, and gender integration into M&E. •    Demonstrated commitment to principles of Gender Equity and Diversity, as evidenced in previous positions / programming. •    Demonstrated experience and expertise in developing and operationalizing a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation plan (please see the FFP M&E and Reporting Policy and Guidance for the components of an M&E plan). •    Demonstrated expertise and experience in developing and operationalizing routine monitoring system designed to track both output and outcome indicators. •    Strong quantitative background and demonstrated expertise in designing annual monitoring surveys including probabilistic sampling strategy and estimating sample size, developing appropriate weights, and analyze quantitative data. •    Demonstrated expertise in designing qualitative studies, in-depth knowledge about qualitative sampling, and experienced in using interview and interactive tools to generate qualitative information and analysis. •    Experienced in developing data quality assurance strategies, data management, and data visualization. •    Excellent oral and written communication skills in English