The Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Advisor will report to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager, with a dotted line to the Project Manager (PM) for Youth Entrepreneurship in Agriculture-Rwanda (YEA-R) project in Rwanda. The Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Advisor (PME Technical Advisor) provides M&E technical advisory services and leads on project level quality assurance processes, contributing to SNV’s operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership on quality assurance of Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) at the project level.
• Develop, review, and update the project’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) plan and framework to ensure alignment with the Theory of Change (TOC) and donor requirements.
• Support Pause and Reflect sessions to define, redefine, and review project performance outcomes and output indicators, ensuring updates are accurately reflected in LogAlto.
• Lead and coordinate annual work planning and reporting activities for the project, including data collection, analysis, and progress reporting.
• Conduct MEL training and capacity building for project staff to ensure accurate and timely monitoring data collection.
• (Co-)develop project M&E frameworks, manage results and reporting, and oversee the M&E data management platform.
• Perform M&E health checks and support project design and inception phases.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Economics, Project Management, M&E or related fields 
• Conceptual working & thinking level with over 5 years of experience, proven experience in planning, monitoring and evaluation in development sector.
• Proven expertise in both qualitative and quantitative analysis, with a strong foundation in socio-economic modelling.
• Demonstrate strong skills in data management, analysis, and communication, with the ability to effectively interpret complex data, generate insights, and convey findings to diverse stakeholders.

Competencies

• Problem analysis - Able to detect problems, recognise important information and link various data to trace potential causes and look for relevant details.
• Focus on quality - Setting high quality standards and striving for continuous improvement and quality assurance.
• Independence - Able to perform actions and make statements that reflect one’s own opinion or view.
• Controlling progress - Able to control the progress of employees’ processes, tasks, activities and of one’s own work and responsibilities.
• Client orientation - Able and willing to find out what clients want and need and to act accordingly, taking the organisation’s costs and benefits into account. 

• Provide leadership on quality assurance of Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) at the project level.
• Develop, review, and update the project’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) plan and framework to ensure alignment with the Theory of Change (TOC) and donor requirements.
• Support Pause and Reflect sessions to define, redefine, and review project performance outcomes and output indicators, ensuring updates are accurately reflected in LogAlto.
• Lead and coordinate annual work planning and reporting activities for the project, including data collection, analysis, and progress reporting.
• Conduct MEL training and capacity building for project staff to ensure accurate and timely monitoring data collection.
• (Co-)develop project M&E frameworks, manage results and reporting, and oversee the M&E data management platform.
• Perform M&E health checks and support project design and inception phases.

• Problem analysis
• Focus on quality
• Independence
• Controlling progress
• Client orientation

• Master’s degree in Economics, Project Management, M&E or related fields
• Conceptual working & thinking level with over 5 years of experience, proven experience in planning, monitoring and evaluation in development sector.
• Proven expertise in both qualitative and quantitative analysis, with a strong foundation in socio-economic modelling.
• Demonstrate strong skills in data management, analysis, and communication, with the ability to effectively interpret complex data, generate insights, and convey findings to diverse stakeholders.