Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 19 Jun 2018
Fixed term contract until 2024
£41,340 per annum
Plan International UK strives to advance children’s rights and equality for girls all over the world. Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
The Policy and Programmes Directorate supports our aims by ensuring that we deliver the highest quality policy and programmes. We constantly enhance programme quality and effectiveness, raise income from institutional donors (like the British Government), and drive change through setting and influencing policy agendas. Sitting within the Directorate, the Development Programmes Unit (DPU) supports Country Offices by helping them to design high quality programmes, and by raising the funds from institutional donors needed to implement them.
We are recruiting a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Specialist to be part of a DFID-funded Girls Education Challenge (GEC) Leave No Girl Behind (LNGB) project. The project vision is for marginalised adolescent out-of-school girls in 11 districts in Zimbabwe to be able to reach their learning potential through accessing accelerated learning programmes and gaining support to transition to formal, non-formal or employment opportunities.
In the role you will provide monitoring and evaluation support, advice and guidance throughout the project. You will support the Plan International Zimbabwe team and consortium members in the establishment and use of efficient systems and tools and the successful monitoring and evaluation of the project. This will include effective management and analysis of all programme monitoring data, in collaboration with in-country teams and partners; coordinating the provision of quality reports, creative materials and other documentation for programme planning, M&E and learning. The role will also lead the analysis and dissemination of learning from project monitoring and evaluations to ensure adaptive programming and M&E processes, as well as dissemination of findings externally as well as internally.
You will have experience of establishing and implementing monitoring, evaluation, verification and learning frameworks, systems and tools within complex multi-country, multi-year development programmes, preferably focused on education and/or girls’ empowerment programmes. You will also have previously developed and participated in monitoring processes, at least in part in a developing country setting, and ideally based in PBR/results-based programming. You will bring exceptional quantitative and qualitative data processing and analysis skills to the role, including adapting/developing monitoring tools and surveys, and be able to communicate technical M&E issues and results effectively.
Although the role is based in London, overseas travel will be required for field visits.
The deadline for applications is 9:00am on Tuesday 19 June 2018
Interviews will take place on Thursday 5 and Friday 6 July 2018
Due to the nature of our work with children, we follow rigorous child protection policies and procedures in our recruitment process. As a result, some of our roles are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure by the Disclosure and Barring Service. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from joining us as an employee or volunteer; this will depend on the circumstances of any offences.
How to apply:
To apply please visit https://plan-uk.org/jobs-and-volunteering