Recruitment Description/ Key Accountabilities

Qualifications and Skills

You will be responsible for developing the CO monitoring, evaluation and learning strategy, responding to contextual challenges but also ensuring alignment with the regional strategy and global M&E framework, policy and strategy. 

What you will do:

• Support HOP in setting up and implementing systems for tracking management responses;
• Contribute to fundraising through ensuring robust TOCs, M&E plans, logframes, M&E activities, budgets and staffing are incorporated into programme and project proposals;  
• Managing the beneficiary and complaints feedback mechanism;
• Provides technical support and advise to programme staff on methods and tools for needs assessments and other types of research;
• Provide technical M&E guidance for innovation and technology for M&E and database management; 
• Participate in country strategy development to ensure effective use of M&E data, and adequate M&E priorities;
• Develop CO specific M&E SOPs responding to contextual challenges, according to NRC’s M&E minimum standards ensuring necessary resources 
• Technical input to programme monitoring and evaluation plans, including methodological guidance and resource planning 
• Ensuring the roll out and use of global and regional M&E developments at the CO level.  Also leading new technical developments to respond to M&E needs in the context.
• Provide technical M&E support, guidelines and capacity building across the CO.  
• Line manage CO M&E staff and capacity building for area office M&E staff   
• Ensuring learning moments are institutionalised in the CO, with systems in place for analysing and using M&E data and supporting programme and CMG to interpret and use learning for strategic and programme decision making. This includes contributing to the development, learning and adaptation of a multi-year programme strategies. 

Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the position. 

 What you will bring:

• 5-7 years of demonstrated management experience in design, implementation, and oversight of monitoring, evaluation, and research for large to mid-scale international projects or programmes;
• Advanced degree in economics, research methods, social sciences or a related field;
• Technical competency and prior experience implementing various programme evaluation methodologies and approaches;
• Excellent analytic, communication, interpersonal, writing, collaboration, problem-solving, planning/organizing, and facilitation skills;
• Advanced experience in qualitative and quantitative data analysis and tools 
• Fluency in spoken and written English;
• Experience within supporting M&E for one of NRC’s core competencies is an asset;

Understanding of and commitment to:

• organizational learning, and the role of monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
• integrated programming approaches
• working collaboratively with technical and operational colleagues within a matrix structure, including experience in capacity building
• University degree in a relevant social science discipline
• Fluency in English, Knowledge of Portuguese or other relevant languages such as Swahili.

What we offer:

• Duty station: Pemba, Mozambique
• Contract: 12 months (Renewable based on funding, performance and need for position)
• Travel: up to 30% 
• Salary/benefits: grade 9 on NRC’s regional salary scale, with accompanying terms and conditions
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.