Cape Town City Centre: Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Consultant posted by CoetzeeHR Consultants

About the Role

The Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Consultant will strengthen evidence-based programming, accountability, and learning across our organisation’s child protection initiatives in Cape Town. We are seeking a practitioner with a deep understanding of child-centred development, safeguarding principles, and the complexities of working with vulnerable populations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and refine M&E frameworks, theories of change, and results chains tailored to child protection, psychosocial support, and community-based interventions.
• Design indicators that measure safety, wellbeing, resilience, case management outcomes, and prevention impact.
• Ensure M&E systems align with national child protection legislation, donor requirements, and safeguarding standards.
• Integrate ethical, child-safe data collection methodologies.

• Develop tools for case management monitoring, referral tracking, risk assessments, and programme performance.
• Train social workers, child and youth care workers, and programme staff on ethical data collection, confidentiality, and informed consent/assent.
• Conduct routine data quality assessments and implement corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with POPIA and child safeguarding protocols in all data processes.

• Lead baseline, midline, and endline evaluations using mixed methods approaches appropriate for vulnerable populations.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis to assess programme effectiveness, behavioural change, and child wellbeing outcomes.
• Produce high-quality evaluation reports, learning briefs, and donor-compliant submissions.
• Facilitate learning sessions, reflective practice workshops, and case reviews to strengthen programme quality.

• Prepare narrative and statistical reports for donors, partners, and regulatory bodies.
• Support the organisation’s accountability to beneficiaries through participatory feedback mechanisms.
• Ensure timely submission of M&E deliverables aligned with grant agreements and organisational standards.
• Document best practices, success stories, and evidence of impact.

• Provide ongoing M&E coaching to programme teams, social workers, and community facilitators.
• Strengthen organisational capacity in results-based management, data literacy, and evidence-informed decision-making.
• Support proposal development with M&E inputs, including indicators, targets, and evaluation plans.
• Engage with government departments, donors, and partners on M&E-related matters.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of child protection systems, case management, safeguarding, and psychosocial support frameworks.
• Proficiency in M&E methodologies, evaluation design, and results-based management.
• Experience with digital data collection tools (Kobo Toolbox, Survey CTO, ODK, CommCare).
• Strong analytical skills, including quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Excellent report writing and data visualisation skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Social Work, Development Studies, Public Health, Psychology, or related field.