Reports to:Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser, Strategy Advocacy and Learning Unit (SAL)Terms:2 Year Fixed Term Contact, Hybrid, Dublin Office.Salary:€57,683 - €64,092Requirements: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.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 theStrategy, 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 stakeholdersSupporting countries to develop action plans to take forward learning on programme quality to improve programmesTo 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 requirementsWith the DDG team, coordinating the development of global dashboards, to bring together key data from different countries on common themes for comparison and learningProviding support to teams for structured qualitative data collection, analysis and documentationRole Holder Requirements:Essential:Post-graduate qualification in a relevant disciplineThree 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 changeSpecific 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 methodsExperience 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 EnglishDesirable:Ability to work through FrenchPrevious experience with IForm Builder, Kobo, JavaScript, Zoho Reports and/or Power BI an advantage