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 complimentary 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 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 organisations 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 organisations 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.

Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognise 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

1. Generating evidence

• Providing support in designing and delivering monitoring and evaluation research.
• 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.
• Ensure high quality data to Restless Development International (both on projects and for our global results framework)
• Identify new, innovative ways to measure the effectiveness of Restless Development Sierra Leone’s programmes.
• Ensure all tools and systems are user friendly and easily understood by both staff and young leaders, who are often our data collectors.

2. Communicating evidence

• Ability 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
• Ensure that donor reporting is accurate, insightful and on time.
• Ensure the organisation is using data to inform decision making,
• Contribute to our internal and external comms;
• Share evidence and best practice with other international Restless Development Hubs and our International teams.

3. Other duties as required

• Representing Restless Development to partners and donors at meetings and during field visits ● Managing people and activity budgets,
• Supporting business development, including for research consultancy work.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound judgment and decisions and offer innovative solutions
• Strong relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally. Strategic in how you approach each relationship.
• Good presentation and facilitation skills.
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented

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

• Work experience in research, monitoring and evaluation in a development organisation.
• Experience training young people on data collection and research design.
• Basic/intermediate data handling in Excel and data software (e.g. pivot tables, VLOOKUP, Kobo, ODK, PowerBI, DevResult and EPI collect), experience with more advanced systems is an advantage (R or SPSS).
• Basic Knowledge on qualitative data gathering and analysis
• Excellent research skills, including research design, questionnaire development, focus group design and project management.
• Excellent reporting in Word and PowerPoint, and ability to adapt written styles to different audiences.
• Good organisational skills, and ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Krio.
• Ability to lead on programme learning processes.
• Commitment to Restless Development’s values and strategy ( ​available on theRestless Development website​ ).

• Experience of working with and for young people.
• Proven success of distance management of field offices.
• Extensive experience working with Safeguarding/Child protection organization.
• Understanding of the lived experiences and challenges of rural adolescent girls.

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

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 into 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 has been recognised by staff, beneficiaries, donors and others who we work with. Beyond this, we have a culture of recognising 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 recognise the importance of helping staff to maintain a positive work-life balance by offering:

• 20 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 24 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 recognises 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 socialise.

Travel and medical benefits

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

Please send a completed application form to:

sierraleonejobs​​@restlessdevelopment.org​​

copy:

alhassanbj@restlessdevelopment.org

by Friday 13^th May 2021.

CVs will not be accepted.

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