Peacebuilding – Head of MEAL – Central African Regional Programme

Position description

Job Title: Regional Head of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)

Location: Flexible, but spending at least 25% time in the Regional Office in Cameroon, with regular visits travelling across CAR, Cameroon and Chad

Reporting to: Regional Director, based in the Regional Office

Supervising: Up to seven MEAL Managers based in hubs across the region

Salary: €55,000 to €67,500 gross of tax. 33 days of annual leave (plus R&R, accommodation and food allowance when in-country)

Role Duties and Responsibilities:

Developing and Implementing the programme’s monitoring and evaluation systems:

• Develop and oversee the systems to monitor and evaluate activities and their impact
• Evaluate and enhance existing data collection tools used during previous monitoring exercises
• Evaluate and enhance existing metrics to measure attitudinal and behavioural change resulting from programme activities.
• Contribute to the development of Concordis’ peacebuilding methodology, policy, strategy and monitoring and evaluation

Responsible for programme monitoring and evaluation

• Ensure the programme adapts and evolves to meet the needs identified, remaining accountable to communities affected by conflict
• Monitoring against the Theory of Change and ensuring that the programme is achieving the intended impact. If not, identifying what needs to change to achieve the intended impact
• Monitoring against performance indicators to check that the project is delivering against these indicators. Identify issues and agree action plans to address these
• Capture learning and identifying what works, what didn’t work, what we’d do differently next time.

Responsible for Producing Timely Internal and External Reports

• Produce monthly and bi-annual donor reports on all regional programme activities in collaboration with Regional Director
• Generate clear, professional and visually attractive reports that explain the impact of our work and the recommendations from our dialogues
• Work with the Communications team producing informal news items, telling the story of the impact of our work and publicising the recommendations that come from dialogues that we facilitate

Responsible for Being an Active Leader of the MEAL Function and Manager within the Regional Team

• Lead on ensuring staff across the programme understand the role of MEAL in their work and have the skills to operate the required systems and capture the data
• Deliver training and coaching in MEAL techniques to the wider team
• As part of the regional Senior Leadership Team oversee the work and staff teams in the regional hubs in CAR, Cameroon and Chad

Person Specification:

Essential:

• At least 2 years’ peacebuilding experience in complex environments
• At least 2 years’ experience working in the Sahel region
• At least 2 years’ senior management experience
• At least 5 years of reporting to institutional donors on programmes worth over $1m per year
• Demonstrable experience in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning of peace processes
• Demonstrable excellent IT skills, including KOBO Collect, MS Office and tools to analyse large datasets
• Professional level French
• Exceptional writing skills in either French or English
• Willing to spend at least 25% time in country, travelling throughout the countries
• Masters degree in international relations, development studies, conflict resolution or a related discipline
• Personal efficiency, resourcefulness, organisational ability and the ability to be flexible and maintain good humour in challenging circumstances
• Awareness of cultural diversity and political sensitivities and ability to address such issues with tact, diplomacy and sensitivity
• Commitment to Concordis’ mission, principles, values (available at http://concordis.international/our-mission-and-values/

Desirable:

• Significant time spent working in CAR, Chad, Cameroon or Sudan
• Fluent in Sango and / or Arabic
• Video editing experience.
• Practical experience and/or training in NGO Security Management.

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