Concern Worldwide
Our vision, our mission and our work are all defined by one goal – ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes. We believe that no-one should have to live in fear that they won’t have a home to sleep in or enough food to feed their children. For over 50 years, we have been working with the world’s poorest people to transform their lives.
Today we are a team of over 4,400 highly skilled and dedicated professionals from 50 countries who share an exceptional depth and diversity of experience. We want committed, values driven staff to join our HQ team and are currently looking for a Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser to be part of our Strategy, Advocacy and Learning (SAL) department.
Concern offers in-house management and leadership courses and tailored organisation-wide learning opportunities both in-person and online. We are committed to providing our staff with the skills needed to excel in their jobs. All employees are required to undertake training in equality, diversity and inclusion; the Code of Conduct; and safeguarding, along with any other training required for the role.
Our culture is values driven and friendly. A global engagement survey conducted in 2022, responded to by 3,577 of our staff, showed that 89% of our staff would happily recommend Concern as a great place to work and 94% are proud to tell people that they work for Concern.
Our office is located in Dublin 2 and we are currently working a hybrid model (50% remote working) and offer flexi time.
The job: You will provide support on planning, monitoring and evaluation to Concern’s Irish Aid funded programmes (under both the Long Term Development (LTD) Stream (18 countries) and Chronic Humanitarian Crisis (CHC) Stream (10 countries)) and support Concern’s wider global monitoring and evaluation activities as part of the work of our Strategy, Advocacy and Learning (SAL) Directorate. You will report to Senior Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser in SAL, while coordinating closely with the Irish Aid LTD Coordinator in the International Programme Department and the Humanitarian Adviser in the Emergency Directorate.
Job location: Dublin (candidates must be legally entitled to work in Ireland at the time of application).
If you join us, this is what you will be doing:
Supporting the monitoring of the Irish Aid funded Long Term Development and Chronic Humanitarian Crisis programmes in Concern. This includes
- Working with country teams to develop comprehensive M&E plans, conduct baselines and set targets for five years.
- In coordination with other M&E advisers in SAL and Concern’s Digital Data Gathering (DDG) team, support the development of data collection tools at all levels (activity, output, outcome) for all participating countries, ensuring standardisation where possible.
- Assisting country teams to develop appropriate targeting strategies; including clearly defining the use of cohorts and how these will be tracked throughout the programme.
- Conducting annual reviews of M&E plans and indicator tracking tables.
- In coordination with country teams, support the annual survey process in each country, ensuring standard processes are followed, that meet donor requirements, with regard to sampling, indicator collection, cohort monitoring, use of standard data collection tools, training of enumerators.
- Ensure that any agreed changes to Results frameworks with the donor are reflected in updated M&E plans, data collection tools and data collection strategies.
- Develop and manage annual country level M&E Support Plan for the programme, including identifying teams with higher support needs and coordinating M&E support missions with other SAL advisers.
Improving on the data management, visualisation and analysis of data. This includes:
- Undertaking further analysis of the data collected through the monitoring system, including identifying (and addressing) data quality issues.
- Providing support to countries on the use of data for documentation of learning, including supporting the reporting process to Irish Aid.
- Work with the SAL DDG team to develop programme dashboards for each country on the Concern data visualisation system (Zoho reports), updating these dashboards as required throughout the programme cycle.
- Develop global dashboards, to bring together key data from different countries on common themes for comparison and learning, identifying trends and issues that may need to be addressed, and subsequently raise support needs with SAL.
- Contribute to overall improvements to monitoring in Concern, developing guidance on key issues to be shared on Concern’s Programme Quality Guide.
Support the Mid Term and Final Evaluations of the funded programmes. This includes:
- Taking the technical lead on the Mid Term Review of the LTD and CHC programme streams, in coordination with the relevant programme coordinators.
- Taking the technical lead on the final evaluation of both programmes.
- Contributing to improving evaluations and learning in Concern.
Other Tasks will include:
- Participating in and contributing to monthly MEAL Cafés hosted by SAL on various planning, monitoring and evaluation issues.
- Sharing any new indicators, data collection tools, and lessons learned developed within the framework of this Programme for use globally by Concern.
- Supporting the Programme Knowledge and Learning Officer to maintain the Irish Aid programme page on Concern’s knowledge hub.
Skills you will bring:
In addition to having a post-graduate qualification in a relevant discipline, you will have the following essential skills
- Three to five years working in developing countries or supporting developing country programmes in PM&E.
- Specific experience working on M&E in at least one of the following areas: Livelihoods, Disaster Risk Reduction, Resilience, Health, Nutrition, WASH programmes, or cash based programmes.
- Practical experience of putting in place robust monitoring systems and conducting or managing evaluations.
- High level of analytical capacity and use of data analysis tools for project/programme management.
- Experience of capacity building of both internal and partner staff in Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation processes and data collection (both quantitative and qualitative).
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to operate as part of a team as well as working independently.
- Excellent spoken and written English
Desirable:
- Ability to work through French
- Previous experience with IForm Builder and/or use of JavaScript
- Previous experience with Zoho Reports
You will report to Senior Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser and work closely with SAL Technical Advisers, Desk Officers in the International Programmes Directorate and key overseas staff, as well as with the Alliance partners’ staff.
The salary is from €51,402 to €60,472 (band 5) and this is a fixed term (two years) contract, with the possibility of extension.
How to apply
*Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Ireland at the time of application.*
If this role sounds right for you, please apply with your CV and cover letter here: Concern Careers | Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser We will respond to every applicant. Please be aware we may offer positions before the closing date.
We encourage all eligible candidates, irrespective of gender, ethnicity and origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organisation. Concern is against all forms of discrimination and unequal power relations, and is committed to promoting equality.
If you have any concerns about our recruitment process and need particular assistance – for example if you have a visual impairment or are neuro-divergent – please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible here. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.
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During this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.
Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on ensuring that the name of any employee or volunteer (existing or new), does not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List).
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