Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist: Ref 1314 at Durban University of Technology

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

•   Master’s Degree in a relevant discipline with a component in organizational research and evaluation.
•   3 – 5 years’ experience as a professional in the monitoring and evaluation field.
•   Experience in setting up and managing M&E systems for strategic and operational plans.
•   Experience in monitoring, evaluation, benchmarking, comparative peer studies, situational.  analysis, and research within the Higher Education sector.
•   Analytical and problem-solving ability.
•   Problem/Situation analysis and synthesis.
•   Demonstrated ability to conduct qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
•   Excellent written and oral communication skills in the business language of the University.

SUMMARY OF DUTIES:

•   Conceptualise and develop a plan, tools, frameworks, templates and models for Institutional performance monitoring, evaluation, reflection, and reporting, taking into consideration existing approaches.
•   Maintain awareness of relevant sector developments to gather intelligence, insights and examples of best practice.
•   Lead all IPME regular and ad-hoc monitoring and evaluation tasks to identify strengths and weaknesses and trends in performance.
•   Identify strategic Institutional performance barriers, challenges, gaps, and enablers and make recommendations on strategic initiatives to enhance Institutional performance.
•   Identify and conduct assessment on international, national and institutional trends, best practices and scenarios and peer comparative studies and formulate strategies on these to recommend to management.
•   Responsible for all M&E capacity-building activities and learning practices, with DUT stakeholders.
•   Collate data according to the requirements of various rankings agencies and submit validated data and to rankings agencies, which the University has elected to participate in.
•   Receive and quantitatively and qualitatively analyse rankings results and provide reports on the same to management.
•   Report gaps to management in relation to non-achievement of organisational performance targets and coordinate strategic discussions for action plans to close performance gaps.
•   Extract monitoring and evaluation data and qualitatively and quantitatively analyse this data in preparation for performance review and reports as required and to inform learning for annual operational-level planning processes and strategic planning processes.
•   Lead M&E reporting to DUT stakeholders by providing written documentation and/or presentations on M&E activities and indicator results for progress, quarterly, mid-year, annual reports, and plans, rankings performance reports and reports on scenario andenvironmental situational analyses.