Our vision, our mission and our work are all defined by one goal – ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes. We believe that no-one should have to live in fear that they won’t have a home to sleep in or enough food to feed their children. For over 50 years, we have been working with the world’s poorest people to transform their lives.
Today we are a team of over 4,400 highly skilled and dedicated professionals from 50 countries who share an exceptional depth and diversity of experience. We want committed, values driven staff to join our HQ team and are currently looking for a Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser to be part of our Strategy, Advocacy and Learning (SAL) department.
Concern offers in-house management and leadership courses and tailored organisation-wide learning opportunities both in-person and online. We are committed to providing our staff with the skills needed to excel in their jobs. All employees are required to undertake training in equality, diversity and inclusion; the Code of Conduct; and safeguarding, along with any other training required for the role.
Our culture is values driven and friendly. A global engagement survey conducted in 2022, responded to by 3,577 of our staff, showed that 89% of our staff would happily recommend Concern as a great place to work and 94% are proud to tell people that they work for Concern.
Our office is located in Dublin 2 and we are currently working a hybrid model (50% remote working) and offer flexi time.
The job: You will provide support to Concern’s livelihood development and humanitarian assistance programmes and support Concern’s wider global livelihood programming as part of the work of our Strategy, Advocacy and Learning (SAL) Directorate. You will report to the Senior Adviser for Food and Nutrition Security in SAL, while coordinating closely with the other SAL Advisers (Livelihoods; Health; Education; Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) and liaising with other departments such as Finance and the International Programmes Directorate.
Job location: Dublin or locations where Concern has an office (except UK). If applying from another Concern operational country, pay scale will be benchmarked for that country. For Dublin, the salary belongs to [grade 5 (€51,402- €60,472 per annum)]. Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Ireland or any other Concern operational country at the time of application.
Duration: this is a fixed term (one year) contract (maternity cover).
If you join us, this is what you will be doing:
Provide timely and effective support to country programmes, per priority needs and in line with the Livelihoods Strategy and Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) quality requirements. This includes:
- Conducting country visits to Concern’s countries of operation; up to 30% international travel is anticipated for this position.
- Providing remote technical support and responding to advice requests received by country teams.
- Supporting country teams with the development of concept notes and proposals.
- Supporting with the recruitment of technical staff for Concern’s country programmes and inducting new staff once deployed.
Continually improve programme quality and inform best practice related to market-based livelihoods approaches (specifically market systems development (MSD) and cash & voucher assistance (CVA). This includes:
- Producing technical guidance notes, tools and templates for roll out.
- Assessing and working to strengthen organisational capacity on CVA, through engagement and collaboration with colleagues across relevant departments.
- Supporting identification, documentation and dissemination of learning and best practice emerging from country programmes.
- Writing sections for annual report illustrating Concern’s CVA portfolio and progress made against the livelihood strategy.
- Sharing with relevant HO and country-based staff technical resources and sectoral up-dates using webinars and Concern’s internal social media platform.
Representing Concern at relevant internal and external working groups and fora to increase Concern’s profile and capacity on CVA. This includes:
- Engaging in internal cross-departmental collaboration on CVA e.g. enhancing Concern’s capacity on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for CVA and private sector engagement, the use of Crisis Modifiers and the role out of a Beneficiary Transfer Management System (BTMS).
- Attending meetings as focal point to the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) Network and the CALP-led global Cash Working Group.
- Backstopping colleagues representing Concern at the global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) and the Global Nutrition Cluster (GNC) Cash & Markets working group.
Other Tasks will include:
- Participating in and contributing to monthly Livelihood Team meetings.
- Rolling out new indicator tools recently developed for monitoring Concern’s programming in market-based approaches.
- Identifying and (where relevant) providing some accompaniment/follow up support to colleagues enrolled on external training courses (CVA and/or MBA)
Skills you will bring:
In addition to having a post-graduate qualification in a relevant discipline, you will have the following essential skills
Experience Working on Market-based Approaches
- At least five years working in developing countries or supporting developing country programmes in market-based livelihoods approaches (MBA, including CVA).
- Ability to travel internationally up to 30% in fragile and conflict affected contexts, sometimes on short notice.
- Specific experience working on MBA in at least one of the following areas: Cash and Voucher Assistance, Market Systems Development, Private Sector Engagement.
- Practical experience of developing and adhering to robust Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for CVA.
- Practical experience in leading market assessments and familiarity with value chain analysis.
- Strong understanding of programmes aiming for economic inclusion of people living in extreme poverty in fragile and resource poor settings; especially the barriers they face when interacting with markets.
- Strong understanding of gender issues in relation to MBAs and practical ways to promote gender equality within them.
Closing Date : 31st July 2023