Kenya: Research and Learning Manager

Organization: FilmAid International

Country: Kenya

Closing date: 02 Sep 2016

About FilmAid:

FilmAid is an international development and humanitarian communications organization that harnesses the power and influence of media and the arts to respond to emergencies as well as promote social change through dialogue in order to protect the wellbeing of displaced and vulnerable populations by building stronger, healthier, and more informed communities around the world.

Over the past 16 years, FilmAid has served displaced populations and their host communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Macedonia, Afghanistan, US Gulf Coast, Haiti and the Thai/Myanmar border.

FilmAid designs and implements communications initiatives on critical health, protection and environmental issues. FilmAid’s Theory-Of-Change is based on the integration of access, creativity and participation, which drive individual and community change, contributing to positive social impact. Underpinning this approach is collaboration; working together is fundamental to achieving change. FilmAid partners with communities, creators, NGOs, Governments, and the private sector to ensure a collaborative approach to this end.

GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:

The Research and Learning Manager is tasked to deliver monitoring and evaluation for its Communicating with Communities (CwC) and livelihoods programmes in Kenya. The position also requires exemplary research, program design and interpersonal communication skills to be used in communicating impact and promoting learning within the organization and externally with donor, government and other key stakeholders.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Summary of key functions

● Implementation of monitoring and evaluation policies and strategies;

● Management and implementation of the evaluation process, including quality assurance and effective management of audits;

● Monitoring and evaluation support towards Communicating with Communities (CwC) and livelihood interventions;

● Knowledge building and knowledge sharing on monitoring and evaluation.

Fiscal, Compliance Management

● Direct responsibility and accountability for planning management and oversight of CwC outreach, livelihood and media arts programmes and projects and any other evaluations relating to the Kenya Country office;

● Establishes mechanisms to assure all mandatory M&E requirements are met and the intended results are produced;

● Provides support at the design stage of programmes/projects for setting up a framework with defined indicators to facilitate the evaluation at the later stages;

● Provides evaluation feedback into policy/project/programme design, including comments on various documents and regularly monitors risk logs of projects;

● Follows up on implementation of evaluation recommendations; ensuring the optimal use of evaluations by providing guidance in preparation of timely management response to all mandatory evaluations and by developing a communication plan;

● Provides support to the Senior Management on the programme of work, including identification of topics, and projects/programme to be evaluated;

● Leadership and coordination of evaluation missions for projects, sectoral and thematic evaluations, including desk evaluations/studies on selected sectors/themes;

● Provides support to the team and stakeholders on ways and means to improve M&E related components and activities;

● Supports the development of project proposals – particularly performance monitoring plans and M&E sections;

● Any other functions/activities as requested by the Senior Management.

Quality Assurance

● Develop standards for measuring quality of activities implemented;

● Lead in the assessing the quality of programmes on a routine basis;

● Communicate challenges, lessons learned, opportunities and best practice resulting from quality assurance activities;

● Ensures compliance of activities and methodologies to CHS, CwC and C4D standards.

Reporting, knowledge building and sharing

● Ensures timely submission of good quality M&E report, including any other reports requiring M&E inputs. The reports should enlighten, inspire and record compliance for internal and external use, and contain data of sufficient quality to be valid for evaluation;

● In collaboration with HQ support in the preparation of organizations annual reports;

● Contribute to global research and learning on Communicating with Communities (CwC) methodologies;

● Manage programmatic learning structures to ensure that best practices and challenges are incorporated into continued activities.

Supervisory responsibility

All project team members under the funded grant.

Accountability:

Reports directly to: Programme Director

Works directly with: Senor Management Team (SMT: Country Director, Creative and Content Director, Operations Director) Management team (MT: Finance Manager, Programmes Manager, Field/Site Managers)

Qualifications and Requirements:

● A master’s degree or equivalent in Media for Development or related field, Programme Monitoring and Evaluation, and strong data analysis training;

● At least 5 years experience operational M&E experience at the national and international level in development and humanitarian issues;

● Expertise and familiarity with cutting-edge M&E methods, designing results frameworks and evaluating development results, including experience in practical implementation of impact evaluations, experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations, particularly in public and private enterprises;

● Demonstrated experience in applying qualitative/participatory research methods; linking planning to M&E; results based approaches;

● Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages, experience in handling of web based management systems; proficiency in using statistical analysis software, such as SPSS, STATA, Excel); qualitative data analysis software (such as QSR) will be an asset;

● Experienced in rendering M&E results using different media; CwC, C4D/E approaches;

● Experience with principles and practice of humanitarian aid and/or development.

● Ready to work for long hours, and able to travel to hardship areas;

● Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills;

● Ability to work with a widespread cross-cultural team.

How to apply:

Interested and qualified persons with the required experience are invited to submit their applications with only Cover Letter, CV and 3 references to Email address: jobskenya@filmaid.org on or before 2nd Sep, 2016 and clearly indicate on the subject line as ‘Research and Learning Manager ’ and stating your expected remuneration for this role.

Note that applicants who send letters of references, testimonials or any other documents apart from those requested will be automatically disqualified.

Position is open to Kenya Nationals only.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

FilmAid is an Equal Opportunity Employer.