Overview
This position will lead system design, research, evaluations, program monitoring, partnership management, capacity strengthening, budgeting, recruitment, and support proposal writing for Development and Humanitarian/Resilience programs. As a senior member of the country REALM team, the post holder is expected to mentor and build the capacity of both existing and new REALM staff.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development, institutionalization and roll-out of an organisational REALM strategy and approaches.
- Provide strategic leadership in embedding evidence-driven programming, adaptive management, and learning approaches.
- Lead the design and strengthening of organizational Evidence and Learning frameworks.
- Contribute to project and program development and planning processes.
- Support the REALM team and partners to bring together data and findings from projects.
- Provide strategic oversight and quality assurance of Baseline, assessment, midline review, Endline, Final Evaluation and research initiatives.
- Lead and oversee national level strategic research and evaluation initiatives.
- Ensure research and evaluation findings are synthesized, disseminated, and translated into actionable recommendations.
- Manage MEAL resources to ensure assessment, evaluation or research can be conducted in a timely manner.
- Coordinate with internal business units, technical specialists, academic institutions, external partners.
- Ensure that project activities are designed to promote feedback and response mechanisms.
- Ensure the utilization of feedback and response mechanism (FRM) data and children participation.
- Lead the institutionalization of a strong organizational learning culture.
- Lead the development and implementation of National and Project Learning Agendas.
- Provide technical oversight for studies, assessments, evaluations, and independent project reviews.
- Strengthen programmatic analysis, learning, and knowledge dissemination.
- Contribute to strengthen organizational knowledge management systems.
- Contribute to effective advocacy for children.
- Actively engaged in strategic discussion on program design, Donor engagement and proposal development.
- Support the capacity development of our strategic/implementing partners in research and MEAL.
- Establish and maintain strong working relationship with other technical leads, regional REALM team, Save the Children Members, and Academia.
- Ensure appropriate staffing within the REALM team and provide leadership, motivation, guidance, and technical support.
- Provide technical supervision of the field-based REALM staff.
- Contribute to performance management of staff within the REALM team.
- Lead and work closely with other departments’ representatives and project MEAL staffs.
- Building strong linkages with external resources to support MEAL activities.
- Coordinates and manages REALM-related issues between SC and partners.
- Lend support to activities beyond the scope of this job description.
Required Experience
- 10 + years working experiences in the NGO, university or government, private with significant experience in knowledge management and learning.
- 6+ years of experiences in monitoring, evaluation, research, learning, and reporting.
- Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills, including experience using analytical software packages such as SPSS, NVivo etc.
- Strong understanding of data management systems, information management system, including web-based content management technologies and communication channel.
- Knowledgeable in project management cycle and experience in project design and proposal development.
- Solid experience monitoring and producing high quality report of development projects.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree social science, international development, or other related areas.
