The overall purpose of the job is to implementation MEAL actives of a 5-year Leave No Girl Behind (LNGB) project, funded by DFID. Technical support is to be provided to all other sectors in relation to education activities, safeguarding policies and improving the livelihoods of project beneficiaries.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

 General Responsibilities

• Ensure and contribute to the establishment of strong Monitoring & Evaluation and learning system is in placed
• Promote accountability and ensure compliance with Concern’s Programme Participants Protection Policy, Anti- Fraud Policy and Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) standards, including the complaint and response mechanism (CRM), to ensure maximum protection of programme participants and the efficient and transparent use of Concern’s resources.
• Promote equality, especially gender, within the organization and across project, in line with Concern’s Equality Policy and, ensure targeting and project implementation is informed by how Concern Understands Extreme Poverty (HCUEP).
• Promote and protect the reputation of Concern in external settings, ensuring that the organization’s experience and expertise is well communicated and consistently presented, and that we are looked upon as a professional organization, guided by organizational policies and Concern’s Code of Conduct.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Strengthen the monitoring and evaluation systems for the Education & other Project; ensuring the project M&E plans are implemented and revised as necessary, all staff and partners understand their roles related to M&E, and all programme documentation is based on robust data;
• Ensure that M&E systems are being implemented to plan at the field level and communicate any issues or inefficiencies that arise to the MEAL Manager in a timely and proactive manner.
• Monitor the implementation of different safeguarding standards and commitments (strict policies in support of children) with collaboration of stakeholders.
• Support the MEAL Coordinator, Technical officer and Education project manager in the management and implementation of field-level M&E data collection, analysis and reporting activities
• Support programme field staff in the collection of activity- and output-level monitoring data during activity implementation
• Carry out data collection where it is an M&E responsibility in M&E plans
• Support training for external enumerators or partner staff that conduct baseline, midterm, and end line surveys (including ethics and safety, sampling and respondent selection, device use, as well as survey contents)
• Provide technical support in the teaching and learning to facilitators/teachers
• Field manage external enumerators or partner staff in conducting baseline, midterm, and end line surveys

Safeguarding

• Raise awareness on the Code of Conduct and associated policies (namely the Programme Participant Protection Policy, Child Safeguarding Policy and Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy) within the LNGB team and downstream partners (through trainings, one to one coaching, field visits)
• Increase compliance to the Code of Conduct and associated policies and in light of any issue ensure ‘duty to report’ modalities are clear for all staff (through spot checks in field offices, classroom and IFAL trainings)
• Ensuring that safeguarding risks are identified and mitigated during the project (eg when we are running a training where we bring women together in a town areas/dormitories which may open them up to risk from GBV- what do we do to ensure children and women are safe, or if a male teachers is exploiting a girl child in class etc – we need to be on top of the risks in advance and put in place strategies to address the issues)
• Ensuring that Concern meets Safeguarding check list commitments as set out by Consortia lead PIN
• Ensure a robust Complaints Response Mechanism (which meets CHS standards) is in place at school, IFAL and community level

Digital Data Gathering

• Support the MEAL Technical officers, Coordinator and education project manager in administrating the country's DDG system
• Provide field-level support to programme staff in device management and utilization of the Concern DDG application

Accountability and Learning

• Support the team on the implementation, dissemination and reporting system of safeguarding policies with in the wider communities and stakeholders.
• Support Progress Review and Results-Based Review for projects
• Support MEAL coordinator to support external evaluators and consultants
• Support MEAL coordinator to promote documentation and sharing of programme impact and learning
• Actively promote sharing of learnings from baselines, end-lines, reviews and evaluations internally and externally.
• Support project learning reviews and donor reports, as required.

Emergency response

Concern is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike and the Ethiopia Programme is to respond, all staff are required to actively participate in the response, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objective of the organization.

Accountability 

In line with Concern’s commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS): 

• Actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle (planning, implementation, M&E);
• Work with relevant colleagues  to ensure that the Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) is functional and accessible, that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed;
• Work with relevant colleagues  to ensure that information about CRM, safeguarding and expected staff behaviour is disseminated among programme participants and communities. 

Gender Equity

• Demonstrate understanding of Concern Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy
• Contribute to ensuring that Concern Ethiopia is a place where men and women are treated equally and with dignity and respect
• Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities.
• The duties and responsibilities of the job holder not limited to the above activities but includes other duties assigned by the line manager.
• Support the filed team in promoting Gender equality through trainings, community awareness & mobilization approaches

Job Requirements

Person Specification:

Essential

• Bachelor's Degree in economics, social science, education and other related discipline with a combination of at least three years of relevant experiences in MEAL
• Experience in the implementation of different safeguarding policy in project beneficiaries and actors
• Has strong understanding of basic education & girls education challenges
• Clear understanding and experience in directly implementing primary qualitative data collection (key informant interviews, focus group discussion, participatory qualitative methods, etc.)
• Knowledge and experience words, excel and different statistical software packages
• Ability to translate monitoring and evaluation into practical evidence that can be used to inform lobbying and advocacy messages
• Clear understanding and experience of quality assurance in data collection
• Ability to provide technical advice and support
• Clear understanding and experience in directly implementing primary quantitative data collection (surveys, etc.)
• Experience of providing training and capacity building to programme and M & E staff
• Initiative and ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to work both as part of a team and independently.
• Strong report-writing skills in English
• Willingness to travel frequently to rural field locations and experiences
• Flexible and adaptable approach to working in a changing environment.
•  Ability to work under pressure with numerous deadlines, and priorities.

Desirable

• Experience in the implementation of different safeguarding policy in project beneficiaries and actors
• Experience with girls’ education and needs
• Experience working in large consortia
• Knowledge of Amhara Region
• Excellent communication skills; able to work as part of a team and establish relationships with field offices

What we offer

• A competitive salary and benefit package
• Excellent medical benefits (100% cover including dependents)
• 20 days annual leave
• 26 weeks (paid) maternity leave, 18weeks(unpaid) parental leave

How to Apply

Interested applicants should send non-returnable C.V., application letter outlining how their experience and education fit with this vacancy via: CLICK HERE

• Please note that no need to submit your supporting documents at this stage
• Only short listed candidates will be contacted

 Safeguarding at Concern: Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies

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. 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.

Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.