Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Mexico -- TREES Program, Sustainable Forestry Division

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The Rainforest Alliance (RA) is an international nonprofit organization that works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior. Based in New York City, with offices throughout the United States and worldwide, the Rainforest Alliance works with people whose livelihoods depend on the land, helping them transform the way they grow food, harvest wood and host travelers.

The Rainforest Alliance's TREES (Training, Extension, Enterprises and Sourcing) program promotes sustainable livelihoods and protects biodiversity in forest-dependent communities. We work to enhance the competitiveness of community and indigenous forestry enterprises by building business skills, increasing efficiencies, and facilitating investment in value-added processing, expanding income opportunities from wood and non-wood forest products and environmental services, and increasing access to local and global markets through Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification.

Position Summary

The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will maintain the monitoring and evaluation systems for the TREES Program in Mexico and will assist with monitoring and evaluation activities regionally, with a particular focus on the activities of the IDB-supported forestry small and medium enterprises (SME) development project. S/he will be responsible for the collection and analysis of data for all project and internal Sustainable Forestry Division wide indicators, development of case studies and written "success stories" as appropriate, as well as coordinating with the Evaluation and Research Division of the Rainforest Alliance. S/he will also provide information required for the weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports required by donors.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with TREES field teams to coordinate the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the Program's performance results and geographic information from the region;
• Support and provide quality control for the collection and analysis of project indicators and the Sustainable Forestry Division global indicators;
• Review current monitoring data collecting system and work with project and regional teams to improve systems and finalize a centralized data collection center;
• Input new data collected from the field and provide monthly monitoring and evaluation system updates;
• Coordinate with the Evaluation and Research division team to produce maps and provide the information required for impact studies and case studies;
• Assist with the production of progress reports for donor funded projects according to the timeframes required by each project;
• Provide information for proposals and technical reports; and
• Other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

• Degree in Environmental Studies, Natural Resource Management, Economics, Social Sciences or a related field;
• Minimum 2 years of proven experience in monitoring and evaluation;
• Strong data analysis skills, with an emphasis in statistics and geographic information systems experience;
• Strong computers skills (MS Office Suite);
• Ability to multi-task and work under tight deadlines;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in both English and Spanish;
• Strong interpersonal communication and teamwork skills; and
• Ability and willingness to travel at least 20% of the time.