ABOUT RESTLESS DEVELOPMENT

In 2016, Restless Development launched a new vision and strategy designed by young people.  Having championed the engagement and influence of young people at every stage of the development of the United Nations’ new Global Goals, Restless Development is developing a complementary strategy that will:

• Convene, advocate and empower young people and youth agencies to lead change, and

• Collaborate with partners and governments who share our vision for young people to be at the forefront of achieving a just and sustainable world for all.

Building on Restless Development’s proven the model of youth engagement, over the next five years ten thousand volunteers will deliver the new strategy through a reinvigorated ‘Restless Model’ for youth-led development that will give youth-led organizations around the world a recipe for lasting, transformative change led by people and their communities. In addition, Restless Development will engage hundreds of partners and thousands of young people working for youth-led change through:

• A platform that young people can access to lead change through their own ideas and innovation;

• A coalition of technical youth-led development agencies that partner organizations can join;

• A youth ‘lab’ where knowledge, insight, research, and experience is shared.

Restless Development Sierra Leone has and will continue to be a flagship programme within the context of this new strategy. The agency’s role at the forefront of the social mobilization and behavior change data collection efforts in the country has led the agency to become an international leader in community engagement.

OUR APPROACH TO SAFEGUARDING

Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people, and vulnerable adults to be an organizational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognize that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we expect all of our staff, volunteers, and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Job title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer X2

Location: Kabala and Pujehun

Annual Salary: SLL 40,458,201

Preferred start date: As Soon As Possible

Length of contract: 12 Month (With extension pending funding and performance)

Visa requirements: Must have the right to work in Sierra Leone

Reports to: MEL Manager

Direct reports: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator

Expected travel: National travel to chiefdoms/communities of operations.

1. Generating evidence

• Support in the design and delivery of MEL across our projects.

• Support the MEL Team to generate credible evidence for donors around what their investment achieves using a range of research methodologies.

• Help donors and programmes teams understand what works, what doesn’t and why.

• Provide high quality data to Restless Development International (both on projects and for our global results framework)

• Help make all tools and systems user friendly and easily understood by both staff and young leaders, who are often our data collectors, support Field Officers to use data collection systems.

• Compiling, coding, verifying of information or data and proper archiving on Google cloud and system given.

• Support the creating and deployment of tool on e-data collection platforms (Kobo, Google form, CTO etc.)

2. Communicating evidence

• Support the team to analyse data in a way that brings out the big picture; tells a story and identifies meaningful exceptions;

• Provide actionable insights and answers to the ‘so what?’ question

• Contribute to donor reporting that is accurate, insightful and on time.

• Contribute to our internal and external comms;

• Help provide evidence and best practice to be shared with other international Restless Development Hubs and our International teams.

3. Other duties as required

• You will be supported to conduct field work including leading focus groups and conducting interviews

• Accurate and detailed translation and transcription

• You will be trained and supported to analyse data using thematic coding (qualitative) and statistical techniques (quantitative).

• Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.

We are looking for people with the right competencies and skills for the role, and who demonstrate the personal qualities consistent with our Values.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Commitment to Restless Development’s values and mission (available on Restless Development International website).

• Diploma or University degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field of study (for example: development, social science, Business Administration or statistics);

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in MEL and within an NGO/INGO at the community level.

• Highly proficient at qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

• Demonstrable ability to train staff and volunteers on M&E concepts, tools, and processes.

• Ability to present data, for example through graphs, briefs, reports, case studies and presentations.

• Proficient with Microsoft suite (e.g. word, excel power point access etc.)

• Excellent organisational skills, and ability to work to tight deadlines;

• Ability to work on own initiative, and follow instructions.

• Must be willing to travel 10-20% of the time, including to remote areas.

• Be results oriented, forward-thinking, with demonstrated analytical skills.

• Strong report writing skills.

Desirable

• Working knowledge of spoken Krio and any other local dialect appropriate to the region.

• Experience of working with and for young people.

• Knowledge of relevant national and international strategies and framework in the area of Youth Sexual Reproductive health and empowerment.

• Proven success of distance management of young people.

Restless Development is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from young people, women, those living with HIV, disabled people, and other marginalized groups.

WHAT WE DO FOR YOU

Remuneration

We are proud to commit to a transparent global salary scale, ensuring a fair and comparable system of pay across all global locations, taking in to account statutory benefits.  In addition to salary, we offer End of Service Benefit and NASSIT (10% employer contribution) for all staff.

Values and Culture

At Restless Development, we’re proud that the strength and integrity of our values have been recognized by staff, beneficiaries, donors and others who we work with.  Beyond this, we have a culture of recognizing and celebrating both our values and our global achievements with monthly Values Champions and an annual Values Day.

Work-life balance

It goes without saying that we work hard at Restless Development.  We also recognize the importance of helping staff to maintain a positive work-life balance by offering:

• 24 days annual leave (in addition to public holidays and with an extra day of annual leave given for each full year of service, up to a maximum of 28 days).

• Access to flexible working.

• Study leave, maternity, paternity or adoption leave, and other leave allowances.

• A day’s leave on your birthday.

Professional development

Restless Development is proud to be an employer who recognizes potential and invests in the development of its staff.  We are committed to the professional development of our staff through:

• Empowering opportunities to work on significant projects which stretch and inspire staff – allowing them to develop on-the-job.

• Training and development opportunities, including supporting our staff to identify mentors both within and outside of the agency.

• Quarterly Staff Workshops for all staff to give and receive agency updates, receive training, and socialize.

Travel and medical benefits

A contribution is made towards staff medical of up to 2,500,000 Le.  When traveling with work, staff will be covered by Restless Development’s travel insurance.

HOW TO APPLY

• Please send a completed application form to:

sierraleonejobs@restlessdevelopments.org

and copy

alhassanbj@restlessdevelopment.org

before midnight on 19th August 2021.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Please note that we do not accept CVs, resumes or covering letters.