About Company

THE OUTREACH FOUNDATION HAS AN OPENING

FOR A

MONITORING AND EVALUATION OFFICER

GENERAL

The Outreach Foundation is a small to medium-sized local NGO that mainly works with young adults in the areas of skills training and business development. We also offer a wide range of counselling activities, specially, but not exclusively, geared towards the migrant community. We currently operate out of 3 sites, our head office in Hillbrow, downtown Pretoria as well as in Musina.

Purpose

The M & E officer is responsible for overseeing all monitoring and evaluation aspects of the Outreach Foundation. This includes – inter alia -  baseline, midterm and follow up surveys, quantitative and qualitative data collection as well as quality assurance of project activities. The M&E Officer writes donor reports and doubles up as a content editor with regards to all donor reports due.

Responsibilities and duties ( but not limited to)

Overall responsibility for the systematic and routine collection of data as well as assessing and analysing the data collected.

• Conduct community mapping and census with project staff
• Design and conduct barrier analysis for each intervention
• Design and conduct follow up survey amongst beneficiaries
• Build capacity of project staff to implement M&E activities
• Serve as on-site point person for all monitoring and evaluation related work
• Help with the gathering of information for all reports due
• Work to ensure data accuracy
• Has superior knowledge working with log frames
• Support routine reporting processes related to data collection
• Play a key role in the compilation and writing of donor reports
• Contribute to the compilation, sharing and presenting of programme findings, trends and results with staff
• Be the custodian of the Soweto Care System

PLEASE NOTE: APPLICANTS WITHOUT A UNIVERSITY DEGREE IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES  or similar FROM A RECOGNISED UNIVERSITY AND A MINIMUM OF 5 TO 8 YEARS OF EXTENSIVE M&E EXPERIENCE GAINED IN A DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

Applicants must have the right to live and work in South Africa to be considered.  A valid driver’s license with some five years of driving experience is also an essential requirement.

The above requirements will be strictly adhered to when shortlisting. Please do not waste both, our and your time by applying, if you do not meet our listed requirements. 

Deadline for applying is end of business on the 23rd of June. While the position is based in Johannes-burg, you should be able and willing to visit our other offices as well from time to time.

Please ensure you  o n l y  forward a cover letter and a CV of no more than 4 pages to the following e-mail address:  info@outreachfoundation.co.za