Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor, War Child

Position: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor Responsible to: Programmes Director Salary: £28,000 -31,000 p.a. (gross, dependent on experience) Start date: October 1st, 2011 Applications deadline: August 31st, 2011

War Child works to support and improve the care and protection of children and young people who live with a combination of insecurity, poverty and exclusion in some of the worse conflict-affected places. Over the next five years War Child will develop its organisational capability to increase its beneficiary reach from 5 to 10 conflict affected fragile states. Improving its monitoring and evaluation capacity and learning from its project implementation is a necessary step in this development. Information gleaned from Monitoring and Evaluation will be used to make us more accountable to donors and our beneficiaries as well as enable War Child to persuade decision makers to begin allocating the level of financial and political commitment needed to reduce the number of children dying and suffering from the effects of war.

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor‘s role will be to help us develop and implement our M&E1 & Learning strategy and to document learning from programme implementation. The M&E Learning Advisor will be based in UK but will be expected to travel regularly to our country programme to provide programme monitoring and evaluation support, carry out internal evaluations, organize external evaluations and build the capacity of our staff and partner organisations in monitoring, evaluation and learning.

Key Responsibilities Include 1.To lead in developing a consistent evaluation, monitoring and learning framework for War Child. 2.To systematically document lessons learned, best practices and ensure they are reflected in programme design and implementation 3.Build the capacity of War Child and our partners in the field of monitoring, evaluation and learning, 4.Act as one of the organisational Child Protection Officers (if needed).

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Application Process •Download the Application Pack and complete the Application Form and send it tovaswati@warchild.org.uk . (Please note that individual CVs will not be accepted) •All completed application forms must reach War Child by 5pm on August 31, 2011 (Wednesday) •Due to limited resources War Child, HR will contact only the shortlisted candidates •First round interviews will be held during week commencing September 5, 2011 (Monday) •Second round interviews for selected candidates will be held during week commencing September 12, 2011 (Monday) •At one of the interviews, candidates will meet with some of the wider War Child programmes team and will also be expected to complete a short written assessment test. •Any offer made post the second interview will be conditional on receipt of 3 favourable written references. (from your most recent employer, any other previous employer and a character reference). In case clarification is required post the receipt of complete reference forms, War Child reserves the right to call the referees. •The successful applicant will be expected to undergo a CRB check, a medical check for overseas travel purposes, be compliant and sign up to War Child’s Child Protection Policy prior to a final offer being made. •Start date: October 2011.