فرصة عمل: مطلوب مدير مسؤول عن البحث والتعلم للعمل لدى Solidarités International Ngo

PRESENTATION OF THE ORGANIZATION

SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL (SI) is an international humanitarian NGO which, for more than 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts and natural disasters by meeting their vital needs for food, water and shelter. Particularly involved in the fight against diseases linked to unsafe water, the first cause of death in the world, SI's interventions provide expertise in the field of access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene promotion, but also in the essential area of food security and livelihoods. Present in around twenty countries, SI's teams – 2000 people in total made up of expatriates, national staff, permanent staff at headquarters, and a few volunteers – work with professionalism and commitment while respecting cultures.

DESCRIPTION OF THE POSITION

General objective:

Under the supervision of the MEAL Coordinator, the Research and Learning Manager supports the MEAL and technical coordinators in the development and implementation of an evidence-based demonstration strategy and learning activities. He/she:

• Develops, manages and facilitates research initiatives, evaluations. assessments and studies;
• Fosters knowledge creation and sharing;
• Provides tools and methodologies to facilitate evaluation and learning events;
• Disseminates findings and lessons learned to teams and other stakeholders;
• Ensures that lessons learned are integrated into programmes;
• Is responsible for the archiving of programme documents, tools and lessons learned.

The main challenges:

• Establish the learning plan for the regional.
• Revitalize the role of research and learning manager which has been absent for almost two years.
• Lead on developing a learning plan for the Lebanon mission, and be the first among 25 missions across the world to do so.

Priorities for the 2/3 first months:

• Cooperate with the MEAL Coordinator and the Programmes Department to elaborate research and learning strategy for the Country Programme
• Cooperate with the MEAL Coordinator and the Programmes Department on the undertaking of a capitalization study for a four-year Disaster Risk Reduction, development programme funded by the AFD
• Cooperate with MEAL Coordinator and Information Management Department on the evaluation and capitalization studies related to the use of a WhatsApp Bot in humanitarian interventions, and its potential scale-up and expansion

Responsibilities and main activities:

Develop, manage and coordinate organisational and programme learning opportunities

At programme level:

• Develop and keep updated a learning plan at country level tracking learning initiatives and research opportunities, in line with the country and sectoral strategies;
• Develop articles, case studies and success stories, based on identified needs for demonstration with the coordination team;
• Train programme teams on the importance of learning to serve programme quality, and on the tools and facilitation techniques that help foster a culture of learning, adaptive management and collaboration;

At project level:

• Contribute to the design of activity, output and outcome indicators that can serve demonstration and evaluation purposes;
• Instil learning and reflection events within projects (Before Action Reviews, periodic project reviews, After Action Reviews / lessons learned workshops…), and facilitate the capture of tacit knowledge;
• Support project learning by analysing secondary data literature, research and/or evaluation outputs, project data and programme team feedbacks;
• Support Project Managers and Technical Coordinators in the documentation of innovations, activities and approaches (“capitalization”);
• Plan, devise, manage and facilitate project surveys, evaluations and studies (ex-ante and ex post), ensuring that they are the most learning-oriented as possible, in collaboration with technical coordinators;
• Source external consultants as needed for project evaluations, assessments, surveys and studies.

Learning utilisation and dissemination

• Develop a recommendations and/or lessons learned repository for the country teams;
• Support internal communication to share good practices, recurrent challenges, and lessons learned;
• Leverage opportunities to disseminate research, evaluation and learning findings to all programme teams and ensure that they are integrated into aspects of design, implementation and reporting;
• Share valuable learning with the HQ Desk and DOAP counterparts in order to contribute to the institutional knowledge management.

Reporting/Communication

Strategic orientation

• Participate in the development of a learning strategy and action plan, in line with the association's technical framework, the country strategy and demonstration priorities;
• Participate in the programming / country strategy exercise;
• Contribute to the development of partnerships with research actors and universities when relevant;
• Keep up to date with research and learning initiatives with respect to the country’s sectors of intervention and areas of concern.

Proposal development, Reporting, Communication & Representation

• Immediately report any problems or information impacting on the activities or safety of the teams to the MEAL Coordinator;
• Contribute to the parts of proposals and reports to donors related to cross-cutting themes and MEAL, in particular on evaluation, learning, assessments and research;
• Share and disseminate to field teams and other stakeholders results from learning and research activities once they are validated by the MEAL coordinator;
• Upon request, represent SI and work closely with counterparts in other partner organisations;
• Communicate and promote the use of learning outside the organization to partners and the humanitarian sphere more generally;

Project management and coordination with other teams

• Ensure the consolidation/validation of the chronogram of activities and the follow-up of the field visits of various stakeholders;
• Participate actively in coordination meetings;
• Participate in monthly programme monitoring;
• Plan and monitor the budget related to his/her activities.

ORG CHART POSITION (reporting and functional relationships)

Line manager: MEAL Coordinator

Line Report(s) None

Functional Manager: None

Functional Report(s): None.

PROFILE NEEDED

Background & experience:

• Master’s degree in social sciences, International Development, Economics, Statistics, or any other related field
• At least 3 years of experience in a similar field related to monitoring, evaluation, research, learning (MERL) assessments and studies, preferably in an emergency or post-conflict setting.
• Demonstrable experience designing, leading, and participating in assessments, evaluation, and research studies for humanitarian and/or development work.
• Experience with and knowledge of principles and current approaches to MERL in humanitarian and development programs
• Direct experience with both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methods.
• Understanding of data and information needs for program management and decision making.

Technical Skills & Competencies:

• Ability to develop high-quality reports
• Ability to lead presentations and participatory workshops.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
• Proficient in MS Office Applications; including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access
• Experience using quantitative and qualitative data analysis tools, such as SPSS, STATA, Epi Info, R, NVivo etc. (desirable)
• Experience using PowerBi or other data visualization software such as Tableau (desirable)

 Soft Skills:

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Mobility to visit different locations (day trip) in Lebanon on a regular basis (weekly).
• Adaptability to changing work environment and possible volatile security situation
• Strong ethics
• Excellent coordination skills
• Attention to detail
• Results-oriented/pragmatic

Language:

•           Fluent English and Arabic: speaking, reading, and writing skills

•           French is an asset but is not required

Others: 

• Knowledge and understanding of data protection regulations.
• Abidance by PSEAH and safeguarding principles.
• Commitment to the fundamental principles of SI’s charter and ethics

SI WILL OFFER YOU

A salaried post :  2,300 USD as basic salary

Vacation : 1.75 paid leave per month

Social and medical cover

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