Job Location Flexible (Nairobi, Kampala, Dublin)
Reporting To Head of Programme Quality
Contract type 2 year fixed term
Start Date From ASAP
Key objectives of this role
Leadership/ Championing Investment in M&E: Consistent with GOAL’s value for money ethos, the M&E advisor must effectively communicate the necessity and value-added from on-going and increased investment in the M&E amid a competitive funding environment and competing organisational priorities.
Strategic Planning: Playing a central role in providing senior management with an evidence basis for strategic planning.
Human Resources: supporting the GOAL HR function to hire and retain a high quality of M&E personnel in field. Line management of M&E professionals in the field and HO.
Coordination: acting as information cross roads in the organisation between programme technical team, head office senior management and M&E field staff, external consultants, GOAL finance team and academics. Including:
Leading discussions and resolution of M&E technical issues which span sectors technical team advisors, in order to support the integrated programme approach GOAL has adopted.
Updating senior management regularly on M&E and any organisational implications
Coordinating with internal audit regarding risks identified through M&E units
Evaluations: being the head office lead on technical review of country programme evaluations proposed, sharing experiences in similar evaluation designs from other country programmes, coordinating with relevant technical advisors, seeking opportunities to pilot innovative evaluation designs using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Specific tasks would include:
Review of all evaluation terms of reference from country programmes and in coordination with the head of Programme Quality, provide HQ technical feedback and approval
Leading procurement of consultants services to conduct external evaluations
Establishing new and maintaining existing mechanisms to enable country programme technical recommendations to be tracked through to implementation
Coordinate multi country thematic/sector specific evaluations
Dissemination/ Sharing of learning:
Sharing internal best practices found through evaluations with other country programmes, senior management, technical team members and within the M&E team in GOAL.
Sharing relevant journal/publication articles with technical team members on best practice or innovations that relate to M&E in their sector (Health, WASH, HIV, Nutrition, Livelihoods)
Networking/Representation with Donors:
Attending and presenting at conferences and creating networking opportunities for GOAL in the M&E sphere with a view to learning and also demonstrating GOAL’s work
Preparing and presenting evidence based presentations for donors, governments or other stakeholders to demonstrate GOAL’s work
Research:
Identifying research needs/ opportunities in conjunction with country programmes, coordinating a very focused set of research priority topics per year
Linking to or maintaining relationships with research institutes/ universities
Requirements:
A primary degree in Development or related field with Masters level degree indicating experience in operational research, action research or associated field.
Minimum 3 (three) years practical field experience in emergency and development humanitarian programmes, with a particular focus on planning, monitoring and evaluation.
Knowledge and experience in qualitative and quantitative evaluation methodologies
Knowledge and experience of participatory approaches to rural development
Experience in report writing and proposal generation and familiarity with key donor monitoring and evaluation guidelines.
Experience and skills in staff training and management.
Appreciation of the aims and objectives of GOAL.
Adept in use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SMART and/or Epi Info, STATA, SPSS
Fluent in spoken and written English with strong analytical skills
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Ireland at the time of application
How to apply
http://www.candidatemanager.net/cm/Micro/JobDetails.aspx?&mid=YGTYD&jid=UYDGTCXCX&site=Goal
Deadline: 20/ 06 /2013
