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.
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