🇸🇱 Job Vacancy @ Restless Development – Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator
ROLE TITLE: Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Coordinator
Apply by: Before close of office Wednesday 15th October 2025. 5:00 pm
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, the UK, the 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 organisations 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 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
The program aims to improve food security and climate resilience among vulnerable smallholder farmers by promoting climate-smart agricultural practices, strengthening natural resource management, and promoting sustainable food and nutrition systems. Key outcomes include increased access to nutritious, diverse, and affordable food, reduced malnutrition, improved health and nutrition services, and increased income. The program also promotes sustainable resource utilization, fisheries development, nutrition screening, and WASH services. Collaboration with government, NGOs, and microfinance partners fosters equitable, climate-adaptive development and long-term stability in targeted regions.
Key Responsibilities
Design Systems for Learning
Develop the overall framework for the project's MEL systems, with the supervision of the MEL Manager. Work with the programme's Senior 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.
- Providing support in the design and delivering monitoring evaluation learning and research across the project.
- Work with the MEL Manager to develop learning cycles, including processes for outcome mapping and monitoring.
- 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.
- Help donors and programmes teams understand what works, what doesn't, and why.
- Ensure all tools and systems are user-friendly and easily understood by both the youth collective and partners
Implement Systems
- Ensure the alignment of MEL activities with program goals and contribute to the development of annual work plans for the project to identify project targets and ensure the inclusion of MEL activities.
- Conduct field visits for data validation, monitor the quality and completeness of data sets, and provide targeted support to programme teams. Capture and document lessons learned; champion the scaling-up of best practices.
Other duties as required
- Representing Restless Development to partners and donors at meetings and during field visits
- Managing people and activity budgets,
- Supporting with business development, including for 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. Be strategic in how you approach each relationship.
- Good presentation and facilitation skills.
- Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented, and results-oriented
People and Performance
- Provide regular meetings (at least fortnightly); monitoring work schedules and work plans - providing tasks as well as personnel management for field officers and ensuring that this is cascaded to the volunteers.
- Keep notes of all Line Management meetings with clear actions and follow-up points.
- Assist in providing the staff members with effective Performance Management.
- Seek learning opportunities for staff.
- Be approachable, supportive, and helpful to all staff, volunteers, and adolescents on an equal basis.
- Support the staff you manage to respond to the targeted change makers, volunteer's welfare and basic discipline situations.
- Work in line with Restless Development guidelines for discipline, care, and counseling.
- Support the People and Safeguarding Unit in ensuring that all staff adhere to all security protocols, safeguarding policies and procedures and report incidents in a timely and accurate manner.
Others (5%)
- Other duties as required, as agreed with the Line Manager.
Job title: Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Coordinator X1
Location: Freetown
Stipend: (Band 0) Le 203,912
Preferred start date: October 2025
Length of contract: 30th September with possibility of extension
Reports to: Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Manager
Direct Reports: Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Officers
Expected travel : Occasional domestic travels may be required
About you
We are looking for people with the right competencies and skills for the role and who demonstrate the personal qualities consistent with our values .
Our value: HEART - We are who we serve. We are brave.
Behaviour: Supports managers to embed a values-led culture within their team. Uses values to guide decision-making and group actions.
Is driven to generate ideas which continually improve ways of working, involving others in problem solving. Adapts style to cope with and support others through change.
Our value: HEAD - Delivers Quality. We are 100% professional.
Behaviour: Strives for continual improvement against individual goals, seeking opportunities to maximise their contribution to team priorities. Supports others to deliver quality and improve their work. Takes ownership for ensuring value-for-money in the areas for which they take partial ownership.
With guidance, takes ownership of programme elements and/or internal processes. Considers underlying issues and Restless Values when making operational decisions.
Our value: VOICE - We generate leaders. We are proud to carry the banner for youth-led development.
Behaviour: Confidently leads programme elements and/or internal processes. Will typically manage one or more junior staff members and is seen as a leader amongst their peers.
Regularly seeks feedback and evaluates own performance, creating opportunities for personal development. Develops others through proactive sharing of knowledge, skills, and opportunities.
Our value: HANDS - We are in it together. We listen and learn.
Behaviour: Confidently adapts their communication style to suit their audience. Is able to influence others to build shared understanding.
Seeks opportunities to collaboratively deliver quality against team goals by building strong relationships with colleagues from across the organisation. Works with external partners to maximise mutual benefits.
Skills and experience
Essential
- Commitment to Restless Development's values and mission (available on Restless Development International website).
- Bachelor's degree in a related field with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience in successfully leading and strengthening program teams in a dynamic, challenging, and changing context, including experience with remote management.
- Demonstrated leadership skills with strong coordination and networking skills.
- Demonstrated experience in staff capacity building and mentoring.
- Knowledge, skills, and experience in participatory methods, community development, and partnership.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, positive and professional attitude, and ability to lead and work well in a team setting and with multiple partners.
- Excellent written and oral English skills are mandatory.
- Excellent computer skills in programs such as MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Desirable
- Ability to multi-task and independently organise work and prioritise tasks.
- Flexible and creative
- Ability to work calmly under pressure and efficiently manage heavy workloads
- Self-motivated, honest, highly responsible, and punctual.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Willingness and availability to work from Restless Development regional offices from time to time.
Restless Development is an Equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. Restless Development will ensure that no applicant or staff member receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital status, social status, caste, race, ethnic origin, religious belief, age, HIV status, disability, or any other factor that cannot be shown to be relevant to performance.
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. In addition to salary, we offer pension contributions and other benefits following the local Hub.
Values and Culture
At Restless Development, we're proud that the strength and integrity of our Values have been recognised by staff, young people, donors, and others 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:
- 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).
- Birthday Leave
- Access to flexible working.
- Generous study leave, maternity, paternity or adoption leave, and other leave allowances.
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 that stretch and inspire staff, allowing them to develop on the job.
- Regular performance management.
- 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 Insurance
When travelling abroad for work, all staff will be covered by Restless Development's travel and medical insurance.
To Apply
Please submit your CV and a cover letter that provides tangible examples of how your skills, knowledge, and experience will support your ability to perform the key priorities outlined in the above job description (using no more than 750 words). Women are strongly encouraged to apply.
