Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
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We
believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often
suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s
girls who are most affected.Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
role PURPOSE
Plan International is an independent child right and humanitarian organization committed to children living a life free of poverty, violence, and injustice.
We actively unite children, communities, and other people who share our mission to make positive lasting changes in children’s and young people’s lives. We support children to gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence they need to claim their rights to a fulfilling life, today and in the future. We place a specific focus on girls and women, who are most often left behind.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 75 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
The position holder for the role of M&E Officer will be responsible for monitoring and evaluation of the Youth Economic Empowerment project “A Working Future” in Mwanza. S/he will be responsible to support and provide technical expertise in M&E to all Working Future project activities, particularly YSLAs and VSLAs health check to ensure all groups sustainable, including the provision of support to project staff, and staff of partner to implement monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
Under the guidance of the CO M&E Specialist and direct supervision of the Project Manager, the M&E
Officer will be responsible for the monitoring and ensuring high quality and timely inputs, and for ensuring that the
Working Future project maintains its strategic vision and that its activities result in the achievement of its intended
outputs and outcomes in a cost-effective and timely manner.
The M&E Officer will be responsible for designing and implementing the M&E activities of the project; assisting the Project Manager in preparing Quarterly/Annual reports on project progress and monitor the project activities regularly, developing and maintaining the MIS SAVIX of the project, updating project beneficiary information on YESME! Tool and will be responsible for the collection & analysis of different data in relation to the project activities.
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Dimensions of the Role
- Conduct monitoring and ensuring high quality and timely inputs, and for ensuring that the A Working Future project maintains its strategic vision and that its activities result in the achievement of its intended outputs in a cost-effective and timely manner.
- Regular follow-up and periodic audit, verification and health check of Village/Youths Loans Associations and groups, to assess their saving and financial performance, membership status, leadership capacity and capacity needs, and gender situations within the groups, this is to support the project manager and implementer ensure the functionality of the groups throughout the project duration.
- Design and implementing the M&E activities of the project; assisting the Project Manager in preparing Quarterly/Annual reports on project progress and monitor the project activities on a regular basis, developing and maintaining the MIS SAVIX of the project, updating project beneficiary information on YESME! Tool and will be responsible for the collection & analysis of different data, and overall data management in relation to the project activities.
- Ensures M&E ethical and technical assistance is available and provided at all times to the project team and partner NGO staff in project areas;
- Supports the design, development, and implementation of the M&E strategy in line with tools
- Supports in analyzing and writing of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual project performance reports and their submission in stipulated deadlines and support other project staff and partner NGOs in report writing skills.
- Under the supervision of CO M&E specialist support data auditing and verification to assure internal consistency and validity of project activity monitoring data reported by all partners, through quarterly data verification and auditing visits.
- Facilitates the interpretation and use of M&E data, through the quarterly district review meetings between the project, partner NGO, and other relevant stakeholders at the district level
- Supports review of progress on a quarterly basis; problem-solving and development of remedial actions ensuring any disparity between planned and actual outputs are addressed.
- Participates and contributes to the development of the Monitoring and Evaluation performance monitoring plan.
- Liaises with of CO M&E specialist to facilitate the implementation of capacity building workshops and on the job training on monitoring, evaluation, and reporting as required for partners.
- With support and supervision of CO M&E specialist provides guidance and support to field staff and partner NGO staff in the development and implementation of monitoring tools, which will include, but not be limited to, data collection, analysis and reporting on project indicators;
- Contributing to developing relevant monitoring tools to be used by Community Resource Person (CRP) and Youth CRP
- Training and providing monitoring tools to Community Resource Person (CRP), Youth CRPs
- Participating in supportive supervision for facilities trained on data quality and utilization in collaboration with M&E officers from partner organizations.
- Update project beneficiary information on YESME! Project tool.
- Performs other project related duties as assigned by the Project Manager of the A Working Future Project and M&E specialist
- Collect and document change or success stories from A Working Future Project intervention and share with Project Manager for reporting purposes.
- Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures
- Key relationships
- PU&CO
- Head of M&E
- Head of YEE
- Functional networks within Plan
Gained through education, training, & experience
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Required Experience and Qualifications
- Minimum of a basic degree in Project Management, Statistics, Social Sciences, Information Technology, or equivalent;
- Minimum of at least five (3) years of experience in design and implementation of monitoring, evaluation and research systems in economic empowerment projects;
- Minimum of 2 years of providing training, and in a supervisory and/or management role, in monitoring and evaluation, Youth empowerment is required capacity;
- Minimum 2 years of working in VSLA project and using MIS/SAVIX for VSLA online data management
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision;
- Ability and willingness to travel within the supported districts;
- Computer skills – MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Internet and statistical packages such as SPSS, STATA, Epi Info, and other related packages.
Knowledge
- In-depth knowledge of the M&E and preferably a minimum of three years of experience in Non-profit making organization
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills appropriate to the audience
- Proficient computer skills and use of relevant accounting packages
- Ability to work under the multidisciplinary and multicultural environment
- Good English language skills (oral /written )
- Hardworking with the capacity to work independently with minimum supervision
- Honest, integrity, open, and transparent personality.
- Team player
- Working towards achieving a team goal
- Be able to Respect all groups of people in the community and culturally sensitive
- Persuasive and able to work with different cultural settings
- Motivated, energetic and strives to develop and support others
- Result oriented
- Working for the best interest of the organisation and children
- Appreciate of child rights and gender equality
- Working with the project team and ensure project results are achieved timely without compromising with quality
- Good command over conflict resolution while maintaining important relationships: Capability to resolve conflicts
- Plan and schedule own work, interpreting instructions, and selecting appropriate methods/tools for delivery.
- Operate in a high-pressure deadline-driven environment with professionalism
- Managing donor grants with strict reporting deadlines
We are open and accountable
- Promotes a culture of openness and transparency, including with sponsors and donors.
- Holds self and others accountable to achieve the highest standards of integrity.
- Consistent and fair in the treatment of people.
- Open about mistakes and keen to learn from them.
- Accountable for ensuring we are a safe organisation for all children, girls & young people
- Articulates a clear purpose for staff and sets high expectations.
- Creates a climate of continuous improvement, open to challenge and new ideas.
- Focuses resources to drive change and maximise long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises.
- Evidence-based and evaluates effectiveness.
- Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
- Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
- Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
- Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.
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We are inclusive and empowering
- Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
- Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
- Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
- Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.
- The working environment will include both typical office environment and field environment
- The position requires regular field travels
Mid contact: Occasional interaction with children
Location: Mwanza
Reports to: Project Manager
Closing Date: 19th July, 2020
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.
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Girls Learning Technical Lead
The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
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We
believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often
suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s
girls who are most affected.Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
ROLE PURPOSE
Plan International is an independent non-governmental organisation active in over 70 countries. We strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
We adopt rights-based approaches – working with children and young people, communities, and institutions to contribute toward an environment where all children, particularly girls, are able to realise their rights.
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We place a specific focus on the needs and rights of adolescent girls and young women because we recognise the distinct barriers they face. We strive to adopt gender transformative approaches – working with girls and women, as well as boys and men, to promote positive change in gender norms and power relations.
We have been implementing projects, carrying out research and influencing policy and practice for over 75 years and have developed strong relationships – from community to national level – in the countries where we work.
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
Plan International UK is currently preparing for a forthcoming DFID funded multi-million education programme in Tanzania, which has the overall aim of improving the quality of pre-primary and primary education for girls and boys in Tanzania.
The Business Case released by DFID sets out an ambition to reach all 11.5 million girls and boys in government pre-primary and primary schools in Tanzania through Payment for Results (PforR) financing to the Government of Tanzania (GoT), with additional focussed support to 4.4 million children[1] in government pre-primary and primary schools in 9 regions of Tanzania through testing, adapting and delivering interventions at scale, which will enable the achievement of education sector ‘Payment for Results’ targets. These nine regions will be agreed between DFID and GoT prior to the start of this contract. The provisional regions are: Singida, Katavi, Tanga, Kigoma, Rukwa, Mara, Simiyu, Mtwara, and Pwani.
The desired overarching outcome of the programme is: improved quality, inclusiveness, and safety of learning for boys and girls. There will be 3 specific parts to this project:
Part 1: Payment for Results (PforR) Financing to the GoT based on achievement of Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLIs);
Part 2: Services procured from a Managing Agent (MA);
Part 3: Services procured from a Learning and Evaluation provider (L&E).
These ToR relate to Part 2 – services procured from a MA only.
The 4 outcome areas for the MA component to focus on in achieving the overarching outcome are:
3.2.1 All children are learning in school
3.2.2 Children with disabilities access and learn in schools
3.2.3 Girls are learning, staying in school, and progressing to secondary education
3.2.4 Children are in a safe environment in and around schools
DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE
The Girls’ Learning Technical Lead will be responsible for overall technical support to the programme in the implementation of the interventions under the outcome: Girls are learning, staying in school, and progressing to secondary education (hereafter referred to as the Girls’ education outcome.)
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This position is contingent upon award.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
Technical delivery
- Lead the quality planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of the interventions under the Girls’ education outcome
- Provide technical support to Government of Tanzania staff working with the consortium in the implementation of programme activities
- Develop a framework for the design process of interventions under the Girls Learning outcome over the inception period, that draws on internationally recognised gender-transformative education planning and guidance. This will be done in collaboration with Government of Tanzania stakeholders.
- Provide technical support to Plan Tanzania field staff, consortium partners and local implementing partner organisations to ensure project activities are being delivered in accordance with agreed minimum standards related to gender equality and social inclusion[2]
- Ensure programme design directly aligns with/supports delivery of government strategies to address gender inequalities and girls’ education as outlined in the Government of Tanzania Education Sector Development Plan 2017
- Support and contribute to the writing of the inception report to the donor and other regular reports to be produced throughout the programme
- Support the development of costed annual workplans, as needed.
- Ensure that Plan International`s global policies for Child Protection (CPP), Safeguarding, and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded across all project activities and aligned with similar policies under other outcome areas focusing on disability and safety
- Ensure documentation of case studies, best practices and lessons learned.
- Support M&E colleagues in formulating indicators to measure the effectiveness of interventions to ensure girls are learning, staying in school and progressing to secondary education
- Support M&E colleagues in the development of the M&E Framework
- Based on M&E findings, support the process of adapting programming to ensure that interventions most effective/ relevant to context are applied across the programme
- Represent Plan International Tanzania at all project management committee meetings, consortium and government partner meetings at district, regional and national levels on behalf of the consortium
- Build strong relationships with national, regional and district level Ministry of Education (and other relevant line ministries) officials responsible for addressing gender inequalities in education and coordinate regularly to ensure close alignment and complementarity of Government activities with those of the programme
- Work with relevant Government representatives to ensure project activities are focused on sustainability post project implementation
- Engage with key national, regional, and community stakeholders, including government representatives, donor, civil society, and academic institutions as needed
- Present to various audiences on the technical aspects of gender-transformative programme design and implementation and support the process of dissemination of learning.
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Support and capacity building to delivery teams:
- Provide hands-on support to the Plan Tanzania project delivery team.
- Promote mutual understanding and the sharing of ideas, information and experience on girls’ education issues among team members
- Carry out capacity gap assessments and analysis with Plan International UK for Plan Tanzania project staff and coordinate training sessions based on gaps identified by the project.
- Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
General requirements
- Extensive technical knowledge in thematic area of girls’ education, including knowledge of current trends in gender norms in Tanzania
- Knowledge of various strategies and interventions to support girls’ retention, progression and learning is essential
- Experience of liaising with and supporting government to deliver education strategies at different levels of the education system
- Experience in implementing community-level interventions to promote positive gender norms and girls’ education and/ or acting as a technical advisor to such programmes
- Experience of working on large, complex, donor-funded programmes. Preferably DFID-funded contracts with results-based delivery on projects
- Experience working with/ through partners, including building technical capacity of implementing partner organisations and Government staff
- A minimum of 10 years’ experience of working in Tanzania and a strong understanding of context and contextual challenges faced by communities in the country
- Strong public presentation skills and ability to represent the programme to a variety of audiences ranging from government representatives, donor, academic institutions, civil society, community representatives, and other as required.
- Experience managing teams to deliver quality and meet deadlines
- Familiarity with girl-cantered, participatory approaches to data collection
- Experience in supporting the design of both qualitative and quantitative M&E tools to capture changes in girls’ perceptions and experience of education
- Advanced report writing skills.
- Strong passion and commitment to championing girls’ right to education and to challenging harmful gender and social norms and behaviours
- Advanced degree in a relevant field, for example, Gender Studies, Gender and Development, Gender and Education, Development Studies, or Sociology
- Fluency in English – both spoken and written
- Knowledge of Swahili and other local languages would be an advantage.
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PLAN INTERNATIONAL’S VALUES IN PRACTICE
We are open and accountable
- Promotes a culture of openness and transparency, including with sponsors and donors.
- Holds self and others accountable to achieve the highest standards of integrity.
- Consistent and fair in the treatment of people.
- Open about mistakes and keen to learn from them.
- Accountable for ensuring we are a safe organisation for all children, girls & young people
- Articulates a clear purpose for staff and sets high expectations.
- Creates a climate of continuous improvement, open to challenge and new ideas.
- Focuses resources to drive change and maximise long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises.
- Evidence-based and evaluates effectiveness.
- Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
- Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
- Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
- Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.
- Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
- Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
- Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
- Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.
Typical Office environment with travel to the field (different regions)
LEVEL OF CONTACT WITH CHILDREN
Medium contact: Medium contact with Children
[1] [NB: The figure of 4.4 million children represents the total pre-primary and primary school population for
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Government schools in the original 9 focus regions in the Business Case. It may change depending on the 9regions finally agreed between DFID and GoT]
[2] This could be DFID’s gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) minimum standards, Plan’s gender equality programme criteria, and/or any gender-related minimum standards set by the government of Tanzania
Location: Dodoma
Reports to: Director of Program
Closing Date: 14th July, 2020
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Girls Learning Key Advisor - Shule Bora programme Tanzania
Location: Dodoma, 03, TZ
Company: Plan International
The Organisation Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
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We
believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often
suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination and it’s
girls who are most affected. Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children
We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
The Opportunity
Plan International seeks an outstanding Girls Learning Key Advisor [**Contingent on proposal award ** ] for the anticipated DFID funded Shule Bora programme to provide technical advice and support on girls’ education and learning (the outcome: Girls are learning, staying in school, and progressing to secondary education) during the 6 month design/inception period. There is scope for extension depending on the programme design that emerges during the design/inception period. The expected budget of the Shula Bora Programme will be approximately £80 million over five years.
The Girls’ Learning Key Advisor will be a part-time role, initially for a 6-month period. This role is open to both national and international candidates. The Key Advisor will report to the Team Leader and will support the Girls Learning Technical Lead.
The project will focus on improving the quality of pre-primary and primary education for girls and boys in Tanzania. The desired overarching outcome of the programme is improved quality, inclusiveness, and safety of learning for boys and girls.
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Responsibilities
Technical delivery
- Provide technical advice on gender-transformative approaches to girls’ education programming to the Girls Learning Technical Lead and across the consortium during programme design/co-creation phase
- Support the Girls Learning Technical Lead to develop a framework for the design process of interventions under the Girls Learning outcome over the inception period, that draws on internationally recognised gender-transformative education planning and guidance. This will be done in collaboration with Government of Tanzania stakeholders.
- Mentor and support the Girls’ Learning Technical Lead through the programme design process, providing guidance and input on a regular basis
- Provide technical support to the Girls’ Learning Technical Lead, consortium partners to ensure the project design is in line with agreed minimum standards around gender equality and social inclusion.
- Support the Girls’ Learning technical Lead to ensure the programme design directly aligns with government strategies to address gender inequalities and girls’ education as outlined in the Government of Tanzania Education Sector Development Plan 2017
- Support Shule Bora in the development of the Theory of Change, Logframe and indicators and input into the development of M&E Framework as required
- Support and contribute to the writing of sections of the inception report to the donor as required
- Ensure the project design draws on global evidence and research as to what makes a difference in girls’ retention, progression and learning; clearly reference this evidence and research in the inception report
- Present to various audiences on the technical aspects of gender-transformative programme design and implementation as required
- Provide technical support to/build capacity of consortium partners/implementing partner organisations across other outcome areas on gender transformative programming and girls’ education as needs arise
- Support the Girls’ Learning Technical Lead in coordinating and liaising with other key regional and national stakeholders, consortiums, other relevant donor-funded projects as required
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The Person
In order to succeed in the challenging and varied role, you will have extensive experience in the following areas:
- Extensive technical knowledge in the thematic area of girls’ education and learning, including knowledge of recent global evidence and best practice as to what impacts girls’ learning
- Extensive knowledge of various strategies and interventions to support girls’ retention, progression and learning is essential
- Experience of liaising with and supporting government to deliver education strategies at different levels of the education system as part of an education ‘systems strengthening’ approach
- Expertise in coaching and guiding national teams as part of a programme design processes or throughout a project inception period
- Ability to build supportive, respectful, collaborative relationships at a distance
- Extensive experience of leading and/or advising on gender-transformative programmes at different stages of the project process including design, implementation, monitoring and learning
Type of Role: Part-time role, initially for a 6-month period (with scope for extension depending on the programme design that emerges during the design/inception period)
Anticipated start date: March 2021 if awarded
Location: Dodoma, Tanzania with field travel within Tanzania
Salary: Competitive salary available
Reports to: Director of Programmes
Closing Date: 14th July 2020
Anticipated 1st round interview: 22nd/23rd July
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Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.
A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy.
As an international child centred community development organisation, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realisation of children's rights including their right to protection from violence and abuse. That means we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with.
Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. We must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for. Our organisation is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.
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We will provide equality of opportunity and will not tolerate discrimination on any grounds. We foster an organisational culture that embraces and exemplifies our commitment to gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion while supporting staff to adopt good practice, positive attitudes and principles of gender equality and inclusion.
