Protection Consortium Monitoring & Evaluation Manager

Job posted by: International Rescue Committee (IRC)-USA - Fri, 27 Mar 2015

Job Details:

Organisation: International Rescue Committee (IRC)-USA

Deadline Tue, 26 May 2015

Job type: Permanent

Location: Sierra Leone

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BACKGROUND TO IRC

The International Rescue Committee, one of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies, provides relief, rehabilitation, and post-conflict reconstruction support to victims of natural disaster, oppression, and violent conflict in 42 countries. The IRC is committed to bold leadership, innovation, and creative partnerships. Active in public health, education, livelihoods, women's empowerment, youth development, and protection and promotion of rights, the IRC assists people from harm to home.

 

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is unprecedented in scale and in the response required. No previous outbreak has had as many confirmed cases, or as wide of a geographic spread. The situation is complicated by the porous nature of the regions’ borders, inaccessibility of the terrain, and the presence of multiple active sites of transmission. The outbreak in Sierra Leone started in May 2014 and rapidly spread throughout the country.

 

SCOPE OF WORK

In December 2014, the Protection Consortium was initiated to support the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender, and Children’s  Affairs (MSWGCA) to integrate an inclusive and holistic approach to protection for vulnerable individuals and groups across Sierra Leone in response to the Ebola outbreak. The IRC is the lead agency of the Protection Consortium working with Concern Worldwide, Save the Children, GOAL, Action Contre la Faim (ACF), Plan Sierra Leone, and Handicap International. All partners were working in the country before the emergency and are committed to stay. The IRC is seeking a Protection M&E Manager to lead the development and implementation of a robust monitoring system with all consortium partners for an initial five month emergency protection project that has potential to transition into a longer-term program. The consortium partners will work together to provide a quality program in several areas of protection, including child protection, violence against women and girls, disabilities, psychosocial support, and nutrition. The M&E Manager will work closely with the 7 INGO program teams to ensure that the M&E system is in place and on track to collect, analyze, and report against performance indicators. The M&E Manager will work closely with the consortium partners to maintain quality assurances of data collected and will facilitate staff’s understanding of data to be able to make results-based/informed programmatic decisions.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead the design and implementation of M&E performance plan and tools for ongoing monitoring, research, and learning activities.
  • Develop and oversee the implementation of program-wide mechanisms to measure, analyze, and report progress against set indicators.
  • Design all the monitoring forms, entry sheets, and protocols and train partner staff on their use.
  • Manage partners’ reporting of monitoring data to ensure timely submission.
  • Responsible for data consolidation.
  • Design and manage the centralized database.
  • Support the Consortium Coordinator to lead technical reviews and planning meetings with the consortium partners. This includes leading the periodic reviews of the logframe, program monitoring plan, and program theory of change.
  • Identify and report anticipated changes to output indicators, milestones, targets, and activities to the Consortium Coordinator to ensure timely consultation with the donor.
  • Prepare, in coordination with protection consortium focal staff and Coordinator, strategic work-plans with clear objectives and achievement benchmarks and long-term and short-term priorities.
  • Provide regular support to the Consortium partners’ M&E teams, of varying levels of technical skills, through orientations, trainings, and coaching to ensure high performing M&E teams.
  • Ensure high quality M&E reports to contribute to mandatory donor reporting.
  • Identify opportunities for sharing learning to improve programming and for advocacy purposes.
  • Conduct routine monitoring visits to field sites to ensure high quality implementation of the M&E framework.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Minimum a Masters degree in education, psychology, human rights, social sciences, international development, or a related field.
  • Minimum of five years experience implementing M&E systems, with experience in protection.
  • Significant experience in database design and management, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, participatory monitoring approaches, and reporting.
  • Experience with mobile data collection and/or web-based databases design and management is a plus.
  • Demonstrated ability to coordinate/supervise the work of others to meet deadlines against rigorous program  deliverables in accordance with set timeframes and donor regulations while maintaining high quality and with multiple implementing partners.
  • Experience working in the context of an emergency and/or recovery phase is a plus.
  • Knowledge of key DFID regulations and experience with DFID funding is a plus.
  • Proven leadership capabilities.
  • Proven ability in collaborating closely with multi-level stakeholders, including Government, donors, and implementing partners.
  • Effective and persuasive writing and public speaking.
  • Proven sound judgment and decision-making skills.
  • Computer skills in MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook).
  • Excellent written and oral English.
  • Flexibility to adapt to changing requirements.

 

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti-Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.

 

HOUSING

Shared housing in a guest house will be provided. The position is unaccompanied.

 


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