Established in 2005, Fairtrade Africa (FTA) is the independent non-profit umbrella organization representing all Fairtrade certified producers in Africa. Fairtrade Africa is owned by its members, who are African producer organizations certified against international Fairtrade standards producing traditional export commodities such as flowers, coffee, cocoa, tea, cotton, bananas, mango, and non-traditional commodities including shea butter and rooibos tea. Currently, the organization represents over 1 million smallholder farmers and workers across 33 countries in Africa.

 

A world in which all producers can enjoy secure and sustainable livelihoods, fulfill their potential and decide on their future. 

 

Our Strategic Plan 2016-2020 provides a comprehensive long-term outline towards achieving our commitment to smallholder farmers, workers, and artisanal miners. By working within the Fairtrade system and with strategic partnerships through country and producer networks, we will deliver on the following: 

WHERE WE OPERATE 

We operate four regional networks: Eastern Africa Network (FTA-ECAN) based in Nairobi, Kenya; West Africa Network (FTA-WAN) based in Accra, Ghana and Southern Africa Network (FTA-SAN) based in Cape Town, South Africa. The North Africa & Middle East Network is through partnerships that are coordinated from the secretariat in Nairobi.

 

WE ARE HIRING:Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer
 

• TEAM: Western Africa Network – Regional (WAN)
• LOCATION: Abidjan-Cote d’Ivoire, or Accra-Ghana
• REPORTING LINES: Post holder reports to: Regional Operation Manager, Fairtrade Africa
• Staff reporting to this post: None
• SCALE LEVEL: Officer 1
• BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY: Yes

Duties and Responsibilities

• Support in the development of annual regional plans and budgets, including plans and budgets for the West Africa Cocoa Programme (WACP) and other projects/programmes in West Africa 
• Lead in the development, implementation and update of MEL Plans and performance measurement frameworks for the core programme and projects in the West Africa region 
• Work with Project and Programme managers to ensure full understanding of the donor/funder M&E reports requirements and support compliance.
• Review project specific reports to ensure that they adequately respond to the project approved indicators.
• Collate stakeholder and partners feedback on programmes, develop a report and share it as appropriate.
• Provide technical leadership to the process of collecting, analysis; internal and external dissemination (as appropriate) of relevant performance data
• Build the capacity of program staff on MEL

• Provide technical backstopping to all monitoring, evaluation and research processes in the region in consultation with the Continental MEL Manager
• Support and (where necessary, lead) the development of ToRs for all evaluation and research activities in the region
• Play a leading role in the review of completed evaluations and researches and ensure that they meet the minimum standards of quality before recommending them for signoff to the MEL Manager or the Program Managers as appropriate
• Advise and recommend tools and strategies to improve project tracking
• Suggest ways to facilitate data collection, analysis and validation
• Analyze changes and patterns in data and performance reports
• Support (and when required, lead) any global MEL initiatives/third party evaluations/research in the region in consultation with the MEL Manager

• Identify the top-level recommendations from research conducted in the region and share with staff and relevant stakeholders
• Identify ways and means of sharing the data and information on MEL activities with Fairtrade Producers
• In conjunction with the Operations Manager, Head of Region and the MEL Manager, coordinate reflection sessions with staff to identify what worked
• Coordinate the process of documenting best practices and case studies from the region.
• Coordinate the process of compiling the regional quarterly report.

• Establish a filing system for all the MEL related documents at the regional level in consultation with the program and Information manager and ensure other staff can access.
• Ensure that all the staff in the region can access corporate systems (FMIS or Fair Insight) and are supported when they have challenges
• Provide up to date monitoring data and analysis thereof as and when required and ensure data queries are addressed in an accurate and timely manner
• Identify ways and means of sharing the data and information on MEL activities with Fairtrade producers
• Support the MEL Manager in Data Management at producer and local level.
• Ensure reporting systems and deadlines are in place and met to organizational and donor standards

• Map out and develop a database of relevant M&E stakeholders (including CSO) and update the list at least once annually.
• Identify and propose institutions for potential partnerships with FTA on research.
• Participate in relevant MEL networks