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Job Title: Global Monitoring & Evaluation
Advisor
Job Type: Full-time
Location: Flexible - Kampala,Nairobi or
Dublin
Salary: Not disclosed
Description
GOAL is an International NGO established in 1977, currently
operational in 13 countries world-wide with an annual budget of €65m. GOAL is currently in its second year 2 of a 5
year strategic plan covering the period 2012-16, with an integrated programme
model in complex operating
environments.
GOAL works in the following sectors: Health (including WASH, Nutrition
and HIV), Livelihoods and Children’s Empowerment and Protection
Programming.
GOAL’s work is a mixture of Development programming and
Humanitarian response, we consider one of our keys strengths to be our adaptive
and responsive approach to local contexts.
How the GOAL Global M&E Advisor Role is Evolving
GOAL has invested considerably in the development of
monitoring and evaluation over the past number of years; from the beginning
where the post involved championing organizational investment in the scale up
of M&E, to leading the establishment of country programme M&E units,
and driving monitoring systems strengthening particularly in results based
development programmes with a view to both donor and community accountability.
Our vision for the future is that while it is critical that
these elements of the role will be maintained, increasingly we see this role as
providing leadership within the organization in the area of knowledge
management and acting as a facilitator of organizational learning.
This exciting role will provide an opportunity to drive the organization
forward in the areas of new technology, stakeholder accountability
strengthening and humanitarian M&E and a further increasing our
organisations’ reputation with donors, civil society and academia best practice
and standards in the sector.
Job Ref:108 - TT
Job Title : Global
Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor
Job Location : Flexible (Nairobi, Kampala, Dublin)
Reporting To : Head of Programme Quality
Contract type : 2
year fixed term
Start Date From :
ASAP
Key objectives of
this role
Leadership/ Championing Investment in
M&E: Consistent with GOAL’s
value for money ethos, the M&E advisor must effectively communicate the
necessity and value-added from on-going and increased investment in the M&E
amid a competitive funding environment and competing organisational priorities.
Strategic
Planning: Playing a central role in providing senior management with an
evidence basis for strategic planning.
Human Resources: supporting the GOAL HR
function to hire and retain a high quality of M&E personnel in field. Line
management of M&E professionals in the field and HO.
Coordination: acting as information cross roads in the
organisation between programme technical team, head office senior management
and M&E field staff, external consultants, GOAL finance team and academics.
Including:
·
Leading discussions and resolution of M&E
technical issues which span sectors technical team advisors, in order to
support the integrated programme approach GOAL has adopted.
·
Updating senior management regularly on M&E
and any organisational implications
·
Coordinating with internal audit regarding risks
identified through M&E units
Evaluations: being the head office lead on technical
review of country programme evaluations proposed, sharing experiences in
similar evaluation designs from other country programmes, coordinating with
relevant technical advisors, seeking opportunities to pilot innovative
evaluation designs using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Specific tasks would include:
·
Review of all evaluation terms of reference from
country programmes and in coordination with the head of Programme Quality,
provide HQ technical feedback and approval
·
Leading procurement of consultants services to
conduct external evaluations
·
Establishing new and maintaining existing
mechanisms to enable country programme technical recommendations to be tracked
through to implementation
·
Coordinate multi country thematic/sector
specific evaluations
Dissemination/ Sharing of learning:
·
Sharing internal best practices found through
evaluations with other country programmes, senior management, technical team
members and within the M&E team in GOAL.
·
Sharing relevant journal/publication articles
with technical team members on best practice or innovations that relate to
M&E in their sector (Health, WASH, HIV, Nutrition, Livelihoods)
Networking/Representation with Donors:
·
Attending and presenting at conferences and
creating networking opportunities for GOAL in the M&E sphere with a view to
learning and also demonstrating GOAL’s work
·
Preparing and presenting evidence based
presentations for donors, governments or other stakeholders to demonstrate
GOAL’s work
Research:
Identifying research
needs/ opportunities in conjunction with country programmes, coordinating a
very focused set of research priority topics per year
Linking to or
maintaining relationships with research institutes/ universities
Requirements:
·
A primary degree in Development or related field
with Masters level degree indicating experience in operational research, action
research or associated field.
·
Minimum 3 (three) years practical field
experience in emergency and development humanitarian programmes, with a
particular focus on planning, monitoring and evaluation.
·
Knowledge and experience in qualitative and
quantitative evaluation methodologies
·
Knowledge and experience of participatory
approaches to rural development
·
Experience in report writing and proposal
generation and familiarity with key donor monitoring and evaluation guidelines.
·
Experience and skills in staff training and
management.
·
Appreciation of the aims and objectives of GOAL.
·
Adept in use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SMART
and/or Epi Info, STATA, SPSS
·
Fluent in spoken and written English with strong
analytical skills
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Ireland at
the time of application
Job Ref:108 - TT
