Job Title: Global Technical Adviser – Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (Irish Aid)
Reports to: Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser, Strategy Advocacy and Learning Unit (SAL)
Terms: 2 Year Fixed Term Contact, Hybrid, Dublin Office.
Salary: GB6 – (€57,683 - €64,092)
Requirements: This role involves up to 30% travel to Concern's countries of operations.
About Concern: Established in 1968, Concern is a non-profit, non-governmental humanitarian organisation, dedicated to the reduction of suffering and the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world's poorest countries.
Concern's vision, our mission and our work are all defined by one goal – ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes. Concern strives for a world free from poverty, fear and oppression.
Our culture is values driven and we believe that our people are central to all that we do and are key to delivering on our goal of Reaching the Furthest Behind First. We are committed to ensuring a workplace where everybody feels valued and are enabled to succeed in their work and contribute to delivering on our mission.
Role Purpose
You will provide support on monitoring, evaluation and learning to Concern's Irish Aid funded programmes and feed this learning into Concern's wider global monitoring and evaluation activities as part of the work of the Strategy, Advocacy and Learning (SAL) Directorate. You will report to the Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Adviser in SAL, while coordinating closely with the Irish Aid Programme Coordinator in the International Programmes Department and the Humanitarian Adviser in the Emergency Directorate.
The MEL team sits within the Strategy, Advocacy and Learning (SAL) Directorate and works primarily to support Country Programmes. Central to the MEL team is their collaboration with technical advisors and programme teams across our core sector areas of Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education and Livelihoods as well as in our thematic approaches of Equality, Climate and Environment, Conflict Sensitivity, Disaster Risk Reduction and Protection. The MEL team plays a key role in shaping the global MEL strategy and approaches implemented across 24 countries.
Responsibilities
To support the monitoring of the Irish Aid funded Long Term Development, Chronic Humanitarian Crises and Global Citizenship Education programmes within the Ireland Civil Society Partnership (ICSP) in Concern. This includes:
- With the Senior MEL Advisor, undertaking regular coordination with the Irish Aid Programme Coordinator and International Programmes Directorate to ensure appropriate MEL support is provided to all countries implementing Irish Aid funded programmes.
- In coordination with other MEL advisers in SAL and Concern's Digital Data Gathering (DDG) team, supporting the development of data collection tools and processes at all levels (activity, output, outcome) for all participating countries, ensuring standardisation where possible.
- In coordination with country teams, supporting the annual reporting process in each country, ensuring standard processes are followed that meet Irish Aid and technical requirements, with regard to data collection, cohort monitoring, use of standard data collection tools, and use of data for learning.
- Contributing to annual reports to the donor, leading on Outcome Reporting and Results Based Management.
- Ensuring that any agreed changes to Results Frameworks with Irish Aid are reflected in updated M&E plans, data collection tools and data collection strategies.
- Developing and managing annual country level M&E Support Plans for the LTD and CHC programmes, including identifying teams with higher support needs and coordinating M&E support missions with other SAL advisers.
- Conducting 3-4 country support visits annually to prioritized countries implementing the Irish Aid funded programmes (shared between LTD and CHC)
- Contributing to the design of the next Irish Aid funded programme, ensuring lessons learned on indicators, monitoring systems and review processes are incorporated alongside learning from our monitoring systems on quality programming.
To support ongoing review, adaptive management, active documentation of impact and results and the final evaluation of the Irish Aid funded programme. This includes:
- Taking the technical lead on the Thematic and/ or Annual Reviews, as well as supporting the Final Evaluation of the programme (scheduled for 2026), in coordination with the relevant programme coordinators.
- Supporting Country Programme Teams to analyse data (quantitative and qualitative) and identify areas of impact and good practice for documentation and sharing.
- Supporting countries to conduct periodic reviews and reflection exercises, ensuring integration of perspectives of programme participants, partners and other key stakeholders
- Supporting countries to develop action plans to take forward learning on programme quality to improve programmes
To improve data management, analysis, visualization and use of data. This includes:
- Undertaking further analysis of the quantitative data collected through the monitoring system, including identifying (and addressing) data quality issues.
- Reviewing and updating existing results dashboards for each country as required throughout the programme cycle and advising on updates or additional requirements
- With the DDG team, coordinating the development of global dashboards, to bring together key data from different countries on common themes for comparison and learning
- Providing support to teams for structured qualitative data collection, analysis and documentation
Other Tasks will include
- Providing technical MEL support to the MEAL Coordinator of the Horn of Africa (HoA) Child Wasting Initiative (CWI), Hanaano programme funded by Irish Aid, implemented in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya.
- Sharing any new indicators, data collection tools, and lessons learned within the framework of the ICSP Programme for use globally by Concern.
- Participation in standing and ad hoc working groups and fora related to key elements of the IA programming
All staff are responsible for upholding and promoting Concern's values, including our workplace equality, diversity and inclusion, and safeguarding values.
All staff are required to participate and contribute as necessary towards Concern's emergency response as and when required.
Role Holder Requirements
Essential:
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant discipline
- Three to five years working in developing countries or supporting developing country programmes in monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL).
- High level of analytical capacity and demonstrated experience of using data for project/programme management, learning and as evidence of change
- Specific experience working on MEL in at least one of the following areas: Livelihoods, Disaster Risk Reduction, Resilience, Health, Nutrition, WASH or cash-based programmes.
- Practical experience of putting in place robust monitoring systems and conducting or managing reviews and evaluations.
- Practical experience in using both quantitative and qualitative data collection tools and methods
- Experience of capacity building of both internal and partner staff in Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation processes and data collection (both quantitative and qualitative).
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to operate as part of a team as well as working independently.
- Excellent spoken and written English
Desirable:
- Ability to work through French
- Previous experience with IForm Builder, Kobo, JavaScript, Zoho Reports and/or Power BI an advantage
Competencies
- Communication and working with others
- Delivering results
- Creativity and innovation
- Planning and decision-making
We encourage all eligible candidates, irrespective of gender, ethnicity or origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organisation. Concern is against all forms of discrimination and unequal power relations and is committed to promoting equality.
If this role sounds right for you, please apply with your CV and cover letter. We will respond to every applicant. Please be aware we may offer positions before the closing date.
If you have any concerns about our recruitment process and need particular assistance - for example if you have a disability e.g. a hearing impairment - please let us know and we will do our best to respond to your needs.
Due to the urgency of this position, applications will be shortlisted on a regular basis, and we may offer posts before the closing date.
Important information
Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct supported by three Associated Policies: The Programme Participant Protection Policy, the Child Safeguarding Policy, and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible here. These have been designed to ensure the highest level of protection for everyone the organization engages through its work.
The policies set out the behaviours and responsibilities that Concern staff, and all its representatives (including consultants, contractors, sub-contractors, suppliers, partners, visitors, ambassadors and Board members) are expected to uphold. They also articulate Concern's commitment to safeguarding and protecting adults and children from harm in all aspects of our work. We will therefore do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Consequently, working or volunteering with Concern may be subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.
In this context, all staff and representatives of Concern have a responsibility to uphold the highest standards in their work, in accordance with Concern's core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies.
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