ABOUT RESTLESS DEVELOPMENT:
Young people share a restless determination to address the problems that affect them the most. That’s where we come in. At Restless Development, we’re proud to be the leading youth-led development agency working in Africa and South Asia – demonstrating from the grassroots to the global policy levels that young people can and must play a lead role in development.
This role is a key member of the programmes management unit and Restless Development Management team. A key challenge and performance requirement of this role is to ensure that, at all levels, Restless Development is gathering evidence and lessons learned and is communicating our results and impacts to key stakeholder, to better serve young people and to inform the youth agenda in Tanzania.
We are currently seeking a skilled and motivated Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Manager who will ensure the smooth running of all M&E systems across the organisation and lead the organisation’s research, evaluation and learning activities – ensuring quality and accuracy in the way information is packaged and disseminated to internal and external audiences. You will ensure youth, volunteers, teams, and our partners learn from our work. Additionally, you will provide a helicopter view of our internal performance in programmes by consolidating monthly and quarterly data sets from across the agency to support organisational decision making, as well as donor reporting.
ABOUT OUR WORK IN TANZANIA:
With 66% of the population under 25 coupled with high fertility rates, Tanzania will soon be experiencing the youth bulge.
We’ve been in Tanzania for the last twenty years, growing, changing and responding to the most urgent issues facing young Tanzanians. Our work in Tanzania has been cited best practice for our unrivalled methodologies by theWorld Bank[1] and UNICEFand we are this year winners of the 2014 Resolve Awardfrom the Global Leaders Council for Health. Directly reaching over 110,000 young people across 14 regions each year, it is our young volunteers and youth led networks that lead and deliver transformative change.
Today, we address some of the biggest issues on the table including: the role of young people in the constitution and election process, unemployment, adolescent girls, and development beyond 2015.
Over the last 12 months our work has contributed on the ground to:
- 53,785 young people accessing sexual reproductive health programmes and services
- 11,701 young people accessing civic education and advocacy training, with 6,966 of them engaged in the constitutional review process
- 5,100 young people trained on how to set up their own business and as a result 2,431 micro-enterprises have been established.
[1] 2002, World Bank, www.ibe.unesco.org/AIDS/doc/Worldbank_Sourcebook.pdf
ABOUT THE ROLE:
Our next Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager will build on a strong legacy from the outgoing post holder. Your role will be to ensure that Restless Development is able to identify, capture, communicate and learn from our efforts and results to ensure we demonstrate the impact and value of youth-led methodologies, improve the quality of our work, and can measure our performance in programmes. You will be a core member of the Programmes Management Unit, and will work closely with Programme Managers to ensure appropriate systems, tools, and processes are in place in all our programmes, and that in practice our reporting, research and case study collection enables us to demonstrate our impact - continous learning and learning from our mistakes is core to our Values.
Working under the leadership of the Head, you will drive standards in programme design, monitoring, research and learning through the management team, programmes, and business units. You will with the Programmes Management Unit ensure we are able to validate our achievements through high quality internal and external reporting, evidence gathering, outcome measurement and impact assessment.
The successful candidate will demonstrate experience and passion for research and learning, but have an eye for systems development and project monitoring. You must be analytical but have the ability to coach and support our staff and young people to participate in monitoring, evaluation and learning. The individual must demonstrate the leadership behaviours we expect to see in our Manager and be able to instil a culture of reflection and learning across the whole team.
We are looking for candidates with the following essential qualifications, attributes and experience:
- Graduate-level degree in relevant field of study, or equivalent work experience.
- Be personally committed to Restless Development’s mission and values.
- Experience in programme design and monitoring and evaluation, including design of systems and tools.
- Experienced in creating and implementing a vision for the strategic contribution of MEL across an entire organisation.
- Proven success in designing and leading research projects, ideally in a multi-site context.
- Excellent data analysis and report writing skills.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills and ability to be a team player at management level
- Ability to drive agency performance and Values as a member of the management team
- Written and spoken fluency in English and Swahili.
- Excellent IT skills, ideally with experience of using SPSS, Atlas TI and other packages
How to apply:
Please send a completed application form to jobs@restlessdevelopment.org by Thursday 13 November. Please note that we do not accept CVs, resumes or covering letters. Application forms available at:
For more details and a full application pack, download from www.restlessdevelopment.org or contactjobs@restlessdevelopment.org
- First round interviews are scheduled to take place on w/c 17 November.
- Final round interviews are scheduled to take place on w/c 24 November.
