Program Coordinator - Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)

Program: Climate Smart Dairy Entrepreneurship Program

Role Overview

The Lead - Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the complete M&E framework for the Climate Smart Dairy Entrepreneurship Program. This role ensures data accuracy, project performance tracking, impact measurement, partner coordination, and timely reporting across multiple geographies and project components.

This role demands strong analytical skills, field understanding, project-management proficiency, and experience in climate-smart agriculture, dairy value chains, or rural livelihoods.

Key Responsibilities

A. Monitoring & Tracking

• Develop and execute M&E frameworks, results frameworks (RF), logical frameworks (LogFrame), and KPIs aligned with program outcomes.
• Establish monitoring systems to track inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes across project districts.
• Maintain real-time dashboards for program indicators including adoption of climate-smart practices, productivity, emissions efficiency, livelihood enhancement, and entrepreneurship growth.
• Conduct periodic field visits to validate data, monitor activities, and review partner performance.

B. Data Collection & Profiling

• Design tools for baseline, midline, and endline assessments (digital & manual).
• Collect and manage beneficiary profiling data (dairy farmers, FPOs, entrepreneurs, youth).
• Ensure data quality through validation checks, audits, and field triangulation.
• Build datasets on climate-smart adoption, gender participation, capacity-building outcomes, and business improvement metrics.

C. Reporting & Documentation

• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual project progress reports as per donor / partner requirements.
• Develop analytical presentations, impact briefs, dashboards, and knowledge materials
• Consolidate partner reports and synthesize multi-state progress summaries.
• Ensure all reports follow international reporting standards (OECD-DAC, SDG alignment, log-frame approach).

D. Calendar Planning & Program Coordination

• Maintain and update the master project calendar: trainings, reviews, field missions, audits, monitoring cycles, evaluations.
• Coordinate with implementing partners, technical agencies, dairy institutions, consultants, and field teams.
• Organise review meetings, learning sessions, and data-driven decision-making workshops.
• Track risks, bottlenecks, and deviations from plan; escalate with corrective action recommendations.

E. Evaluation & Impact Assessment

• Lead baseline, midline, and endline studies using mixed methodologies (quantitative + qualitative).
• Apply climate-impact evaluation frameworks (GHG mitigation, resource efficiency, resilience indicators).
• Conduct costbenefit analyses and value-for-money assessments where required.
• Support external evaluations and donor audits with evidence and data.

F. Digital Systems & Tools

• Manage digital data systems (Kobo, ODK, DHIS2, Salesforce, CommCare, PowerBI, Tableau).
• Train field teams and partner staff in data collection, mobile-based surveys, dashboard usage.
• Ensure data security, compliance, and data governance standards.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Master's degree in Statistics, Economics, Rural Development, Development Studies, Agriculture, Social Work, Public Policy or related fields.
• 5+ years of M&E experience in development sector; experience with climate-smart agriculture or dairy/livestock programs preferred.
• Strong understanding of impact evaluation, sampling, survey design, and data analytics.
• Prior experience in large-scale multi-state programs or donor-funded projects (World Bank, BMGF, IFAD, USAID, NABARD, FAO, CSR programs).
• Proficiency in PowerBI/Tableau, Excel (advanced), SPSS/R/Stata, mobile-based M&E tools.
• Excellent writing skills for international-quality donor reporting.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• Project management and multi-stakeholder coordination
• Knowledge of climate-smart dairy practices and rural value chains
• Attention to detail & commitment to data quality
• Communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work with multi-disciplinary and multicultural teams
• Strong ethical standards and integrity in data handling

Additional Preferred Skills

• Experience in GHG tracking in agriculture/dairy
• Experience working with FPOs, dairy cooperatives, rural enterprises
• Ability to travel 2540% of time to project locations