Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Monitoring and Evaluation Intern  Assists in data collection, analysis, reporting, information dissemination, monitoring and evaluation of the ZADT projects for management decision making. Maintains close communication with the Trust�s partners and external consultants when appropriate.  1. Assists the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in monitoring and reviewing impact of the participating Financial Institutions operations and their customers� linkages with smallholder farmers to maintain accuracy of portfolio data and impact of the fund.
2. Receives and reviews adequacy and completeness of the participating financial institutions� verifications of the beneficiary clients� proposals� linkages with smallholder farmers and eligibility.
3. Conducts periodic monitoring visits, prepares monitoring visit report and updates customer files with the periodic monitoring and evaluation reports and returns.
4. Assists the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in monitoring portfolio impact assessments against set objectives and targets, and takes timeous corrective action.
5. Acquires an understanding and appreciation of the customer and the industry and potential impact on funded projects.
6. Provides feedback through concise reports to management, donors, partners and programme teams on projects� performance based on monitoring data findings.
7. Assists in planning, organising and coordinating activities such as work plans, stakeholder workshops and meetings.
8. Creates and maintains information electronically (soft copies) and in hard copy files.
9. Captures and processes data into the loan management system and statistical packages for project outcome and impact analysis and monitoring purposes.
10. Performs any other duties assigned by superiors. 
 Report review 
Performance appraisal
Meetings
 Planned Job Observation (PJO)
Meeting 
Performance review
Report/ documentation review  
  Inputting into the development of the ZADT logframe
 Report preparation and submission
   Degree in Agriculture/Business /Economics or Social Sciences, A Master�s in Development Studies, Business Administration or equivalent is an added advantage  3-5 years  Must have demonstrated experience in project monitoring and evaluation.
 Experience in Financial services will be an added advantage.
 Must be adaptable and an effective team player.
 Should have strong customer service and communication skills.
 Experience with any Loans Management system.
 Must have problem solving skills and pay attention to detail.
 Must be results oriented.
 Must have demonstrated experience in quantitative and qualitative research.
 Must be able to manage a heavy workload, frequent travel, and irregular work hours.
 Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and must be proficient in both oral and written English. Good command of English for report writing is critical.
 Must be able to work with minimal supervision;
 Highly computer literate with MS Office and statistical packages and should be able to effectively use databases;
  Decides on how best to implement the monitoring and evaluation plan
 Decide on the appropriate research methodology
 Decides on the appropriate process of developing and maintaining a suitable M&E database
 Decides on appropriate software for capturing, analysing and reporting monitoring data
 Selection of service providers for M&E tasks
 Reviews and updates the ZADT logframe
  Developing a reliable and functional system of data capture, storage, retrieval and sharing with all stakeholders
 Timely data collection, processing and reporting to profile the impact of ZADT�s operations through the CREATE Fund
 Verification of linkages between the businesses of funded borrowers and smallholder farmers
 Verifying the authenticity of impact and linkages data on smallholder farmers submitted by funded borrowers through the financial institutions


Job evaluation subgrade: D