Land O' Lakes Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist

Land O’Lakes International Development is a division of Land O’Lakes, Inc., a U.S. food and agricultural cooperative that implements humanitarian and economic development activities for donor agencies, is inviting applications from suitably qualified candidates to fill the position of: Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist

Description
Based in Nairobi, the Global M&E specialist will be supporting the implementation of Monitoring and Evaluation in Land O'Lakes international development programs.

Main responsibilities will be to assist development programs during the main stages of M&E including, but not limited to: start-ups, baselines, on-going monitoring activities and reporting, assessments and improvements, close-outs, final surveys and reporting of data.

Also, main responsibilities will include close coordination with the M&E, Communications, Information Systems and other teams at the home office to make sure that their standards are effectively implemented in the M&E process and systems.

This position will also be a key collaborator with New Business Development.

Requirements

•     Bachelor’s Degree; Master’s Degree preferred.
•     At least two years of industry-related, data-oriented experience;
•     Strong background in both qualitative and quantitative analysis;
•     Strong MS Office Suite proficiency and immediate proficiency in statistical software (Minitab, SPSS, Stata, EpiInfo, MS Access).
•     Must be detail oriented, proactive, and flexible
•     Ability to work with people of different cultures
•     Must demonstrate problem solving abilities
•     Excellent English written and oral communications skills
•     Experience with USAID or USDA programs and
•     Knowledge of agriculture, nutrition and/or health a plus

To apply

Send resume and cover letter to “recruit.nairobi@idd.landolakes.com”