United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Advisor

Organization: CARE International UK
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 17 Nov 2014

CARE International is a global confederation of 14 member organisations working together to end povertywith a particular emphasis on working with women and girls, through core strategies of gender equality and women’s voice, promoting inclusive governance and increasing resilience. In 2013 CARE International (CI) worked in 86 countries supporting 927 poverty-fighting development and humanitarian aid projects, to reach some 97 million people. CARE International UK (CIUK) works in support of CARE’s country offices (COs) through support in areas of programme quality; policy influencing; raising new funds and resources; strengthening connectivity across CI, and promoting organizational effectiveness. CIUK also provides technical fundraising support to emergencies in line with CI’s global response.

Strengthening monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems is a critical component of CIUK’s strategic commitment to invest in programme quality. As such CIUK is seeking to recruit a Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Advisorto join the programme department’s MEL team. This role requires a self-starting dynamic individual with the ability to quickly grasp complex conceptual issues on a range of sectoral areas and communicate these accessibly to staff with varying levels of MEL experience. The role offers excellent opportunities to engage in MEL practice for a range of sectoral areas, which may include private sector engagement, inclusive governance, climate change adaptation and emergency work. The advisor will play a critical role in providing direct support and technical assistance on the full range of issues relating to monitoring, evaluation and learning systems and practices. This will involve engaging with CARE staff at all levels at HQ and in field locations. The advisor will actively contribute to design and implementation of MEL systems and evaluations, establishment of good practice and quality in these areas, with corresponding development of guidance and capacity-building support as required.

You will have a postgraduate qualification in development studies or similar. You will have extensive experience of working on monitoring and evaluation in development and/or humanitarian contexts, including comprehensive understanding of institutional donor requirements and experience of developing, setting up and reviewing programme/project design, monitoring and evaluation systems. You will have strong skills in both participatory and qualitative methods and analysis and demonstrated abilities in the design and application of a range of M&E tools, such as surveys and focus group research. You will also have knowledge and experience of applying quantitative/statistical techniques for MEL purposes, including impact evaluation design, survey design and related sampling techniques. You will have excellent communication skills in both written and spoken English, and have highly developed multitasking skills. You are able to work flexibly and a team player, able to network and build relationships across teams in a complex working environment. A second language in French or Spanish is highly desirable.

How to apply:

A full job description and details on how to apply can be found on the jobs page of our website:www.careinternational.org.uk/jobs