🇸🇱 Job Vacancy @ Restless Development – MEL Coordinator, Financial Inclusion Project

ABOUT RESTLESS DEVELOPMENT 

Restless Development is a global non-profit agency. We support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. We are independently registered and governed in nine countries (India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe) bound together by our vision for youth power. We run youth-led programmes to tackle the issues that young people care about the most –  We also run the Youth Collective – a growing network of over 4000 local youth civil society groups and organizations in 185 countries. We are committed to creating an agency that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally.

• 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.

2. ABOUT THE ROLE

KEY PRIORITIES 

Generating evidence 

• Develop the overall framework for the project’s M&E systems, in collaboration with project staff, including partner MEL requirements and reporting.
• Work with the Programme Manager and the MEL manager to systematically document project performance against the work plan, providing regular updates to project technical leads and the project leadership team.
• Work with the MEL Manager to develop learning cycles – including processes for outcome mapping and monitoring, youth-led test-learn-adapt and review cycles, and reporting.
• Develop and implement effective youth-led monitoring tools and approaches to demonstrate the effectiveness of project interventions – including dynamic accountability processes, youth-led reviews, and aggregation of evidence for influencing activities.

• Providing support in the design and delivery of monitoring and evaluation research across multiple diverse projects.
• 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.

Implement Systems

• Ensure the alignment of M&E activities with program goals and contribute to the development of annual work plans for the project and its partners to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities.
• Conduct field visits for data validation, to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets, and to provide targeted support to partner teams. Capture and document lessons learned; champion the scaling-up of best practices.

• Work closely with other Restless Development Hubs to ensure learning and best practice from the different projects and findings are shared internally in line with the agency’s learning agenda.

Communicating evidence 

• Ability to analyze 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 organization 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.

Partner Support

• Provide technical leadership and support to project and partner staff in planning and implementing M&E systems and activities, data-based program decision-making, and results reporting.
• Supervise, mentor, and build the capacity of project MEAL team staff
• Support partners to monitor project activities and track these activities in the aggregate against the results framework

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 research consultancy work.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound judgments 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

3. ABOUT YOU

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

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

4. 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 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 have been recognized by staff, beneficiaries, donors, and others whom 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 recognise 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 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 socialize.

Travel and medical benefits 

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

5. KEY DATES

Please send a completed application form to

[email protected]

and copy

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by 25^th January 2023. Female candidates and People with Disability are strongly encouraged to apply. 50% Of the Shortlisted candidates for this interview will be female.