Specialist Stakeholder Monitoring

Job Title- Specialist Stakeholder Monitoring & Evaluation- Organisational Unit- Mondi South Africa -> Forestry Operations -> Stakeholder Eng- Position Type- Permanent- Minimum years relevant experience- 5-7 years- Location- Hilton - Hilton, KZN ZA (Primary)- % Travel- 20 - 30%- Job Advert**Who is Mondi?**

Mondi offers exciting careers in a workplace where digital and human ingenuity work together. We create innovative solutions with integrity, a passion for performance, and care for our people and our world. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, a passion to perform, and are interested in the chance of working in different countries and cultures around the world, you should consider becoming part of the Mondi Group.

**Are you passionate about Social Development?**

Are you ready to embrace the challenge and help with the design and development of our CSI programme? Join us Let's Grow, Create and Inspire Together.
An exciting opportunity exists at Mondi South Africa. The Stakeholder & Engagement team is searching for a Stakeholder Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist to join our business located in Hilton, KZN.
This position will provide monitoring and evaluation services on the CSI programme to MSA and provide recommendations on new and existing programmes.

**Your Profile Requirements**:

- Degree in Social Sciences
- Degree or Diploma in Project Management
- Advantageous - Training in Monitoring & Evaluation
- 5+years relevant work experience in Social Development
- 3 years' experience in Project Management
- Proven data management and programming experience
- Knowledge of statistical analysis software and skills in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
- Demonstrated ability to design and manage Monitoring & Evaluation activities.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a diverse team

**Key Performance Areas**:

- Leadership and Supervision
- Supervise MSA system usage
- Lead for internal and external reporting activities
- With the Stakeholder Manager; facilitate the monthly work plan reviews and updates
- Provide guidance in knowledge management
- Identifying partners and exploring possible models for collaboration

**Programme design and development**
- Provide technical oversight in developing and implementing evaluation activities
- Provide support through training staff to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation components of the CSI programme

**Monitoring and Evaluation**
- In collaboration with the reporting team, provide management of M&E activities in MSA
- Liaise with staff (as relevant) to ensure that lessons learned and recommendations from M&E activities are used to modify existing programmes and in the design of new activities
- Assist with the evaluation of current indicators and the identification of new ones in liaison with the Monitoring & Evalution committees/relevant support structures
- Monitor data collection, collation, storage, analysis, and reporting ensuring that data is Audit worthy.
- Maintain a quality monitoring system in MSA Online to enable the generation of reports to management and other stakeholders.
- Ensure program staff are using data collected to make informed and timely decisions related to program implementation.
- Impact assessment and Programme Value adding - using the data collected

**Capacity building and training**
- Support Land Manager and SE team to increase their technical capacity in the area of data collection and management

**Reporting Responsibilities**
- Compile data and prepare reports for submission to the MSA reporting platforms.
- Assist with ad hoc Stakeholder Manager reports/information requests.

**This appointment will be made in line with our Employment Equity Plan.**

**The above advert has minimum requirements listed, however Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short listing.**
- Closing Date- 10/12/2023