Summary
Date Posted: Monday, February 27, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Experience, Knowledge, and Expertise
Essential Desirable
• Educated to Masters degree level in the fields of Gender, Social Science, Development Studies, Human Rights, Governance or other relevant humanities.
• At least 5 years’ experience in a similar role in Africa or Asiaworking with women’s rights, gender equality and or GBV MEL.
• Substantial experience of providing leadership, support and guidance on participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning across development programmes/projects – particularly in multi-country settings.
• Strong technical skills in MEL and coordination skills and ability to motivate teams.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills, with excellent written and spoken English.
• Knowledge and experience of adaptive approaches and thinking and working politically.
• Ability to travel regularly to and within programme countries, including Ireland.
• Applied knowledge of the programme cycle including context analysis and problem analysis, design, planning and management, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Strong training and facilitation skills and ability to identify capacity building needs.
• Strong networking/relationship-building skills to work well with and influence diverse stakeholders in a multi-cultural environment
• Strong ability to work in a very participative manner with programme participants and facilitate their inputs into programme design and monitoring.

Key Accountabilities and Deliverables
Monitoring, Evidence and Learning:
• Outline AA Ireland’s position on adaptive management and how it relates to results-based management both in theory and practice.
• Establish and maintain a MEL system that is adaptive and tailored to the programme, including the design of a baseline, mid-term evaluation and final evaluation.
• Ensure MEL practices are rooted in participatory and feminist approaches.
• Be the central point of contact on MEL processes and quality programming.
• Facilitate effective coordination and collaboration between country teams.
• Ensure country teams have input in and ownership of new tools and methodologies.
• Ensure that relevant crosscutting issues as established by the Federation are integrated in the MEL system and monitored throughout the programme period
• Documentation and reporting
• Maintain and manage a documentation repository of all MEL related materials
• Systematically capture targeting criteria for identifying hard-to-reach women and girls and promote disaggregated data by both age and sex as well other intersectionality factors across the programme.
• Support programme teams to monitor and measure progress and learning against indicators in their results framework
• Support country teams to meet all reporting requirements for the donor.
• Provide analysis and constructive feedback to country teams on their reports.
• Lead on the consolidation of monitoring data across the programme to ensure reporting against indicators set out in the programme results framework.
• Facilitate high quality narrative country report submissions within agreed timelines, in close collaboration with AAIreland Head of Programmes and country teams
• Support the development and finalisation of the annual report for the donor, in collaboration with AAIreland Head of Programmes and the wider Programmes Team.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Associate Degree

Job application procedure

Please complete the application form Application Form - ActionAid Ireland and return to recruitment.ireland@actionaid.org 


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