Information about the Role:

Job Title: Regional Head of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)

Location: Flexible, but spending at least 25% time in the Regional Office in Cameroon, with regular visits travelling across CAR, Cameroon and Chad

Reporting to: Regional Director, based in the Regional Office

Supervising: Up to seven MEAL Managers based in hubs across the region

Salary: €55,000 to €67,500 gross of tax. 33 days of annual leave (plus R&R, accommodation and food allowance when in-country)

Role Duties and Responsibilities:

Developing and Implementing the programme’s monitoring and evaluation systems:

• Develop and oversee the systems to monitor and evaluate activities and their impact
• Evaluate and enhance existing data collection tools used during previous monitoring exercises
• Evaluate and enhance existing metrics to measure attitudinal and behavioural change resulting from programme activities.
• Contribute to the development of Concordis’ peacebuilding methodology, policy, strategy and monitoring and evaluation

Responsible for programme monitoring and evaluation

• Ensure the programme adapts and evolves to meet the needs identified, remaining accountable to communities affected by conflict
• Monitoring against the Theory of Change and ensuring that the programme is achieving the intended impact. If not, identifying what needs to change to achieve the intended impact
• Monitoring against performance indicators to check that the project is delivering against these indicators. Identify issues and agree action plans to address these
• Capture learning and identifying what works, what didn’t work, what we’d do differently next time.

Responsible for Producing Timely Internal and External Reports

• Produce monthly and bi-annual donor reports on all regional programme activities in collaboration with Regional Director
• Generate clear, professional and visually attractive reports that explain the impact of our work and the recommendations from our dialogues
• Work with the Communications team producing informal news items, telling the story of the impact of our work and publicising the recommendations that come from dialogues that we facilitate

Responsible for Being an Active Leader of the MEAL Function and Manager within the Regional Team

• Lead on ensuring staff across the programme understand the role of MEAL in their work and have the skills to operate the required systems and capture the data
• Deliver training and coaching in MEAL techniques to the wider team
• As part of the regional Senior Leadership Team oversee the work and staff teams in the regional hubs in CAR, Cameroon and Chad

Person Specification:

Essential:

• At least 2 years’ peacebuilding experience in complex environments
• At least 2 years’ experience working in the Sahel region
• At least 2 years’ senior management experience
• At least 5 years of reporting to institutional donors on programmes worth over $1m per year
• Demonstrable experience in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning of peace processes
• Demonstrable excellent IT skills, including KOBO Collect, MS Office and tools to analyse large datasets
• Professional level French
• Exceptional writing skills in either French or English
• Willing to spend at least 25% time in country, travelling throughout the countries
• Masters degree in international relations, development studies, conflict resolution or a related discipline
• Personal efficiency, resourcefulness, organisational ability and the ability to be flexible and maintain good humour in challenging circumstances
• Awareness of cultural diversity and political sensitivities and ability to address such issues with tact, diplomacy and sensitivity
• Commitment to Concordis’ mission, principles, values (available at http://concordis.international/our-mission-and-values/

Desirable:

• Significant time spent working in CAR, Chad, Cameroon or Sudan
• Fluent in Sango and / or Arabic
• Video editing experience.
• Practical experience and/or training in NGO Security Management.

For full details of this position please visit our website.

https://concordis.international/vacancies

How to Apply:

Applications will only be considered if they are submitted as follows:

Submit your CV and a covering letter as two separate documents.

The cover letter should be no more than two pages long and must explain:

• Why you are interested in the post and why you’d like to work for Concordis.
• How your skills and experience make you a good fit for the person specification. Consider using the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result).
• What languages you can use to a professional level, including verbally and in writing. What languages have you prepared donor reports in, or other reports for an external audience?
• Your experience in senior management.
• Your experience of evaluating the impact of peacebuilding work.
• Your IT skills.

Please also answer the following two questions within your cover letter, (failure to do so will result in your application not being processed):

1. How would you go about evaluating the impact of a peacebuilding process? (300 words max).
2. Explain how you have used KOBO Toolbox or similar in a MEAL Context (100 words max).

The document should be saved in PDF in the following format:

Your First Name-Your Last Name–Document Name–Date(mmyy) eg, John-Smith-CV-0524

Please send both documents to hr@concordis.international with the reference HofM in the subject line.

Timeline:

Closing Date: Sunday 18th May 2025 at 23.59 hours

Selection Process:

All submitted applications should receive an automatic response acknowledging receipt but we regret that we will not be able to enter into individual correspondence with unsuccessful applicants.

Interviews are expected to take place online.

Equality Statement:

Concordis International is committed to treating all people equally and with respect irrespective of their age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We actively encourage equality and diversity and we look to recruit across age, gender, ethnicity and background as we believe this supports our peacebuilding mission.

Queries:

If you have any queries or you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact the HR team by email on hr@concordis.international and we’d be happy to help.