Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor within Youth for ActionAid Myanmar
Do you have profound monitoring and evaluation skills and do you have solid experience working with youth and know how to engage youth activity, then you may be the Advisor that ActionAid Myanmar is looking for!
The Youth Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor is primarily going to support ActionAid Myanmar in establishing a solid, accurate and participatory monitoring and evaluation system around youth, which is a new focal area of the ActionAid Federation. The Advisor will also support ActionAid Bangladesh in similar efforts, although on a smaller scale. The Advisor will further feed into the federation’s global learning sites to ensure lessons learned are shared broadly within countries working specifically on youth.
The Youth Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor is placed through the People4Change program; which is a people-to-people support programme providing capacity development support to ActionAid and her partner organisations.
Listed below are a few of the Advisor’s tasks, but a more detailed job description can be found on the job site at: www.actionaid.org.
Job tasks include:• Train partners in Myanmar and Bangladesh on basic M&E concepts and skills, including how to select baseline data and work with logical frameworks.
• Ensure that the M&E systems developed are able to capture the various forms of youth work and groups that ActionAod Myanmar and Bangladesh work with.
• Ensure that participatory methods are included in the M&E framework and approaches used.
• Share documents and provide stories of change for the ActionAid International oversight group on youth
• Ensure that the M&E systems developed are able to capture the various forms of youth work and groups that ActionAod Myanmar and Bangladesh work with.
• Ensure that participatory methods are included in the M&E framework and approaches used.
• Share documents and provide stories of change for the ActionAid International oversight group on youth
Required qualification• Post graduate degree within relevant field (governance, development studies)
• At least 5 years of postgraduate experience in monitoring & evaluation and youth programming/campaigning. This includes experience with designing systems and tools for monitoring and evaluation purposes.
• Comprehensive understanding of rights-based program practice
• A clear understanding of contemporary development issues, particularly affecting youth in Asia
• Facilitation and training skills
• Work experience from developing countries is an added advantage
• Ability to facilitate and guide processes without taking the lead
• Cultural sensitivity
• English proficiency
Application deadline and procedures
All applications must include a letter of motivation and an updated CV addressed to ActionAid Myanmar. All applications should be forwarded by email to Advisor4@ms.dk. Please also indicate where you have seen this advertisement in your application.
As People4Change is a cross-national programme, which aims at building tolerance, respect and expertise across cultures and borders, this position is not available for permanent residents of Myanmar. If you are a permanent resident of Myanmar and find this job interesting, please note that similar Advisor placements in other countries are regularly advertised at www.actionaid.org.
Application deadline is July 25th 2013
July 31st: Shortlisted candidates are contacted
August 1-4th: First round of phone/SKYPE interviews with shortlisted candidates.
August 16-19th: Personality Assessment feedback via phone/SKYPE
August 21-23rd: Face-to-Face interviews of the final two candidates at in Yangon
Due to the large number of applications received for these positions, it is not possible to provide feedback for all applications. Therefore, only shortlisted candidates will be notified. If you have not received any reply to your application by August 1st, then you have unfortunately not been taken into consideration for this position.
Starting date: October 1st, 2013
Contract start is subject to approval of work and residence permit. The assignment is for 24 months, with the possibility for renewal. The Advisor is expected to participate in a face-to-face Human Rights Based Approach training in Tanzania in November; therefore the starting date is non-negotiable beyond November 1st.
More Information
A comprehensive job description is available at www.actionaid.org. The job description includes thorough information about the job content, salary, and background for the placement. All interested candidates are strongly recommended to go through the detailed job description before applying. For more information on the People4Change programme, please visit the ActionAid Denmark website:www.actionaid.dk, where terms and conditions can be downloaded. For further information on ActionAid International Myanmar, please visit: http://www.actionaid.org/myanmar
For any additional questions, please contact: HROD coordinator, Thet Thet Min,Thet.Min@actionaid.org
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