Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist – Technical Assistance and Fund Management of the Somalia Stability Fund

DAI is an employee-owned global development company. For 40 years, we have worked on the frontlines of international development, tackling fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governments, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering results that matter in some 60 countries. Our integrated development solutions turn ideas into impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and innovation across multiple disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability operations, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS and disease control, water and natural resources management, and energy and climate change. Our clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and national governments. About the Programme The UK Prime Minister’s London Conference on Somalia (February 2012) concluded that support for local stability should be in accordance with the New Deal for engagement in fragile states and build on the stabilisation strategies prepared by relevant authorities, including the Intergovernmental Authority and the Government of Somalia . Improved coordination of international support to build stability and a need to integrate political, security and development initiatives was recognised. To that end, the Conference announced the establishment of a multi-donor Somalia Stability Fund (SSF) and a set of principles to guide international support. The donors contributing to the SSF (Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom) reviewed existing funding mechanisms to Somalia and agreed that a new, multi-donor Fund was required. The SSF offers donors a means to respond rapidly and flexibly to the ebb and flow of opportunity that Somalia’s complex operating environment offers, to develop an approach that fully integrates political, security and development interventions, and to improve the coherence and impact of international support to promote stability. The Fund offers Somali stakeholders a source of multi-year funding that can respond to local, small-scale needs and opportunities, provide resources equitably across Somalia to take to scale existing programmes and establish new initiatives, and can link local interventions to regional and national political processes.
The SSF will incorporate innovative approaches to promote transparency, manage risk, and monitor results. Its governance structure is designed to promote coordination and cooperation with other programmes and to allow representation of core international and Somali stakeholders, while ensuring it is sufficiently agile to capitalise on opportunities and leverage greater impact from complementary programming. The aim of the fund is to provide sustained support over the longer term to local processes of building stability in Somalia, and to help areas become stable over the medium-term, whilst linking them to national processes. It seeks to be flexible, and to respond to an evolving context and lessons learnt, addressing priorities and approaches set out by local stakeholders. The Fund aims to provide sustained and graduated support to stability issues in the short, medium, and longer term as needed.

The Fund’s expected outcome is to provide more stability for poor Somalis by building peace and security, strengthening administrations, and improving infrastructure and services. It will fund development projects led and implemented by communities, support legitimate and representative local administrations, and increase the number of inclusive local, regional and national peace agreements. SSF outputs are: • A greater number of inclusive local, regional and national peace settlements. • A greater number of communities who are safe and more secure. • Target communities’ priority development needs met. • A greater number of legitimate and representative local administrations • International support to local areas of stability is better managed and coordinated. We are seeking applications from a highly experienced Monitoring & Evaluation Specialists who have demonstrated success in working on donor supported funding mechanisms such as challenge funds and multi-donor trust funds. Based in Kenya the Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist will be expected to travel regularly to the following regions in Somalia: Mogadishu/South Central Somalia, Puntland and Somaliland. As a minimum, expertise and experience for this position should cover: • At least 5 years of field experience in establishing, conducting, and overseeing M&E activities for donor-funded governance and/or conflict mitigation programmes in fragile states, including monitoring projects and local partners on the ground. • Prior work experience in Somalia, East Africa, or other Islamic countries, with ability to travel and work in Somalia, a proven contact base, and a strong understanding of Somali politics, culture and clan dynamics. • Experience working in conflict affected and fragile states, in politically complex environments. • Experience applying conflict sensitive approaches and do-no-harm principles on the ground. • Experience working cross-sector, bringing together political, security and development issues preferred. •
• Excellent communication skills, including strong presentation and facilitation skills • English and Somali language fluency

Project Start Date May 2013, Duration: 29 to 41 months

How to apply:

Please submit your application via the following link: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH13/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=DAINC&cws=1...