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Main purpose of the job
The postholder will be responsible for driving forward the results, monitoring, evaluation and learning agenda across British Embassy Mogadishu Somalia to help achieve the greatest impact in Somalia with UK resources. This includes supporting teams with logframes, Theories of Change and MEL systems (developing Terms Of References, reviewing bids, and quality assuring products throughout the programme cycle), as well as capacity building across the network. The postholder will lead the portfolio wide results, evidence and evaluation agendas that will feed into monitoring and evaluating progress against the Country Plan.
The postholder will be the Senior Responsible Officer for the Somalia Monitoring Programme 3 (SMP3). This programme covers Somalia’s Third-Party Monitoring and Learning (TPML). FCDO staff are unable to access the field in Somalia and thus we rely on third-party monitors to be our eyes and ears on the ground, to verify that out activities are being implemented as intended, and to ensure that they are appropriate, relevant, and set us on the right course to achieving our outcomes. The programme also delivers on the Statistical Capacity-Building work, which involves close working with the Somali Administration and the UNFPA to plan for the first Census since 1975.
Technical competencies:
- At least 5 years experience in leading, managing and/or commissioning evaluations.
- Masters degree in economics, evaluation, social sciences, political sciences, statistics or a related field.
- Strong technical proficiency in a range of evaluation methods, both qualitative and quantitative.
- Experience of applying evaluation methods and approaches in international contexts.
- An understanding of the challenges of working in a fragile and conflict affected setting, and ability to adapt to this quickly is essential although it is not essential that the postholder has already done a posting in this setting.
- Experience providing technical assistance, capacity development and/or enhancing learning for evaluation or other types of research.
