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The incumbent shall be responsible to the Project Coordinator in performing the following duties:

• Ensure the building of a monitoring and evaluation system that will facilitate efficient and effective management of the project.
• Working in collaboration with other PMU members, oversee the design and development of the Project M&E system, its knowledge management agenda, and its communication strategy; and ensure that these are coherent and synergistic and support the objectives of the Project, and that they are effectively planned and implemented.
• Guide, support, supervise and monitor the work of the M&E Officer and the Communication Officer and KM Officer.
• Be in charge of designing of the central M&E system that will serve the project needs during implementation.
• Work in close coordination with all stakeholders to assess the data and information needs for the national oil seeds sector database, for Project management and for IFAD’s requirements, ensuring that the M&E system is designed in a way that responds to these needs and that makes it possible to produce reliable M&E data in timely manner.
• Plan and execute and Monitoring and Evaluation surveys with a view of informing ReLIV management on the progress and areas that require improvement to ensure achievement of project objectives
• Planning and the execution of Baselines Studies, Impact and Outcome Studies and Project Completion Studies in line with the timelines of the project. Ensure that these facilitate management decision making and progress tracking for the project.
• Introduce and strengthen the application of Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation methodology by smallholder oil palm farmers.
• Work closely with the Finance Unit to ensure that project outputs and outcomes are closely linked with project financials to ensure value for money.
• Support the KM and Communication Officer to develop an approach for prioritizing and implementing Knowledge Management activities, and developing and disseminating knowledge tools and products.
• Support the KM and Communication Officer to develop a Project communication strategy, geared towards Project implementers, the target group and stakeholders.
• Take a led role to guide and coordinate the Project annual work planning and budgeting process.
• Oversee timely preparation of quarterly, bi-annual and annual project progress reports, their analysis and identification of lessons learned and potential bottlenecks for Project implementation, if/when relevant, and inform the Project management accordingly.
• Any other duties as may be assigned by the Project Coordinator.