Monitoring, Evaluation & Data – Agriculture Job (90-120K)

Reports to: Project Manager

Agricultural Jobs, Corporate Staffing Services Jobs. Monitoring, Evaluation & Data Officer coordinating, monitoring and reporting on agricultural project activities across Kenya, requiring a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics, Statistics, Monitoring & Evaluation or Development Studies and 2-4 years experience in M&E and data management on agricultural or rural development projects with KoboToolbox or ODK proficiency, in an agricultural inputs environment, on-site role in Nairobi.

About Our Client

Our client, an established international company in the agricultural inputs sector, is implementing a donor-funded project to improve smallholder farmer livelihoods through balanced fertilization and climate-smart agricultural practices in East Africa. The project is delivered with local partners through a network of Business Promoters, Sales Agronomists, Regional Supervisors and agro-dealers.

In Kenya, the project operates in three hubs – Western (Bungoma, Uasin Gishu, Trans Nzoia), Central (Kirinyaga including Mwea, Embu) and Rift Valley (Nakuru, Kericho, Nyandarua) – across the maize, coffee, rice and Irish potato value chains. Farmers are reached through training, demonstration plots, field days, soil testing and improved access to appropriate fertilizer.

The Role

Our client is seeking a highly organised Project Coordinator to support the Project Manager in coordinating, monitoring, analysing and reporting on project activities in Kenya. The role ensures that activities are delivered on schedule and that all results reported are complete, accurate and traceable to their source.

Key Responsibilities

Planning and coordination

• Develop and maintain the detailed country implementation plan, breaking activities down to task level with timelines, resources, and deliverables.
• Maintain the country schedule and send reminders on critical milestones and deadlines.
• Serve as the focal point for country-level contributors, ensuring timely inputs and proper filing of project records.

Data management and quality assurance

• Run the country data collection system – mobile data collection forms, paper attendance registers and spreadsheet-based tools.
• Receive, consolidate and reconcile monthly returns from 30 Business Promoters, Sales Agronomists and Regional Supervisors against supervisor records and agro-dealer despatch data.
• Maintain version-controlled, backed-up master datasets for farmers, agro-dealers, trainings, demonstration plots, soil tests, sales and distribution.
• Review submissions weekly for duplicates, missing fields and implausible values; de-duplicate the farmer register and keep a written log of all corrections.

• File supporting evidence (signed registers, consent records, location references, dealer stock-book extracts) so every reported figure is traceable.

Execution and follow-up

• Support the Project Manager in managing delivery from initiation to closure, resolving issues and documenting approved scope changes.
• Lead country project meetings, including the monthly coordination meeting, and follow through on all action items.
• Coordinate and monitor the planning, scheduling and logistical arrangements for farmer trainings, demonstration plots, soil sampling campaigns, agro-dealer trainings and promotional events remotely, in collaboration with field teams.
• Coordinate baseline and endline assessments remotely, including sampling plans, enumerator deployment, data collection schedules, data quality monitoring and liaison with local field teams.

Monitoring, analysis and reporting

• Track milestones and prepare monthly status reports, monthly data packs, quarterly progress reports and inputs to annual and end-of-project reports.
• Disaggregate all indicators by sex, age (youth/older), county and hub, value chain and season, consistently across reporting periods.
• Maintain the indicator tracker (actual vs target, trends and explanations for off-track indicators) and propose corrective action.
• Prepare demonstration plot comparisons, verified success stories (with documented farmer consent) and lessons learned.

Capacity building and field verification

• Train and re-train Business Promoters on attendance registers, mobile forms, obtaining consent and data quality standards.
• Conduct quarterly remote verification of a documented sample of trainings, demonstration plots and agro-dealer records using digital evidence, photographs, GPS references, attendance registers and virtual interviews with field teams.
• Give promoters and supervisors specific feedback on the quality of their returns.
• Ensure personal data is collected and held in line with Kenya’s Data Protection Act, 2019.

Key Deliverables

• Annual country implementation plan.
• Monthly progress reports and data packs; quarterly progress reports with disaggregated indicator tables, variance analysis and corrective actions.
• Clean, complete and traceable country datasets with retrievable supporting evidence.
• Quarterly field verification reports.
• Baseline and endline fieldwork coordinated and delivered on schedule.
• Reconciled country contributions to annual and end-of-project reports, and documented lessons learned.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics, Statistics, Monitoring & Evaluation, Development Studies, Data Science or a related field. A postgraduate qualification is an added advantage.
• 2–4 years’ experience in monitoring, evaluation and data management on agricultural, value chain or rural development projects in Kenya.
• Advanced Excel skills – pivot tables, lookup functions, data validation – and the ability to build clean datasets from field returns.
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying mobile data collection forms (skip logic, cascading selects) on KoboToolbox, ODK or similar.
• Demonstrated experience reporting against a results framework with indicator disaggregation for a development funder.
• Experience training and supervising field data collectors or extension agents.
• Good understanding of the maize, coffee, rice or Irish potato value chains in Kenya and the challenges smallholder farmers face.

Skills and Attributes

• Strong project coordination skills and the persistence to follow outstanding items through to closure.
• Excellent communication and report-writing skills in English; highly organised and detail-oriented.
• Based in Nairobi and able to work full-time from the office. Must be comfortable coordinating geographically dispersed field teams, monitoring project implementation remotely and using digital tools for data collection, verification and reporting.
• Working knowledge of a statistical or data visualisation tool (e.g. SPSS, Stata, R, Power BI) and of languages spoken in the hub counties is a strong plus.
• High integrity and discretion: the successful candidate will handle confidential data and must declare any commercial interest in agro-dealers or input suppliers in the project area.

How to Apply

If you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualifications and experience, please send your CV, quoting only the job title in the email subject (Monitoring, Evaluation & Data – Agriculture), to vacancies@corporatestaffing.co.ke before 24th October 2026

NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not receive any communication from us within two weeks of your application, kindly consider your application unsuccessful. We appreciate your interest and thank you for applying