FSD Africa - Results Management Specialists - Jobs in Kenya

Financial Sector Deepening Africa (FSDA) is a non-profit company, funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) which aims to increase prosperity, create jobs and reduce poverty by bringing about a transformation in financial markets in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and in the economies they serve.

It provides technical know-how and capital to champions of change whose ideas, influence and actions will make finance more useful to Africans businesses and households. It acts as a “market catalyst”, adopting the “making markets work for the poor (M4P) approach”.

The Role:

FSDA now seeks to recruit two motivated and ambitious individuals to join the Monitoring and Results Management team which, in close collaboration with other staff, implementing partners, our funder (DFID), and FSDA’s Development Committee , aims for effective measurement, demonstration of performance, and adaptive management of FSDA’s fast-expanding programme.

Objectives

Support FSDA’s project due diligence initiatives. This task will involve assessing potential Implementing Partners data management and results measurement capacity, and defining the technical support that FSDA may need to provide to enhance the effectiveness with which project performance is measured. The task will also involve carrying out baseline studies – robustness of which will vary from project to project.

Work with partners to establish and implement MRM plans.

To carry out its work, FSDA engages with many diverse partners.

These include training institutions, development organizations, financial service providers and financial sector regulators.

There is shared responsibility between FSDA and its partners in measurement of results. The Results Measurement Specialist, in close consultation with relevant FSDA staff, will provide technical support to partners in the development of practical MRM plans that are aligned to FSDA’s procedures.

Such plans should facilitate effective and timely reporting, learning, and adaptive management at partner level.

Manage impact studies including routine outcome monitoring initiatives.

FSDA has a wide portfolio of interventions. This