The Enhancing Community Resilience Programme (ECRP) aims to increase communities’ resilience to climate change in Malawi. This new programme aims to enable households to build resilient livelihoods that are sustainable and profitable, incorporating natural resource management and risk reduction, increasing adaptive capacity and enabling vulnerable households to have a voice in decisions affecting them. The programme is being implemented in seven districts in central and southern Malawi by a consortium led by Christian Aid. Consortium members include CARE, Action Aid, technical resource partners and a number of local implementing partners. ECRP is funded by the UK’s Department for International Development, Irish Aid and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Knowledge and Information Manager will work across the consortium to lead the effective and efficient monitoring and evaluation of programme activities, identify and share best practice and develop and implement a knowledge management system. This role leads on donor and inter-consortium reporting, which involves working closely with a range of partners. This role also ensures that case studies and programmatic evidence inform advocacy work.
Candidates for this job should have a degree in a relevant discipline and experience of compliance, monitoring and evaluation and project cycle management procedures and processes. Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation against log frames is essential, as are experience of data analysis and an understanding of the requirements of institutional donors. Candidates must also have highly effective organisational skills and the ability to quickly establish and work with complex systems and procedures. An ability to work to deadlines, under pressure and with multiple priorities is essential for this post. Candidates must also have hands-on experience of building the monitoring and evaluation skills and capacity of others, and of working with multiple stakeholders across different geographical locations.
Please show your suitability for this post by giving answers to the following questions in your application form. Using the guidance notes available on our website may help you formulate your answers.
Effectiveness and accountability
Please describe a project you supervised that required detailed planning and organisation and where you delegated parts or all of the tasks.
What was the project, what were the goals and deliverables, how did you decide who the tasks should be assigned to and what benchmarks did you use to monitor the progress of the project?
Project management
Please describe a time when you had to establish and/or manage a complex monitoring and evaluation system or framework involving multiple stakeholders.
What was the project, who were your stakeholders, what were your main challenges and how did you overcome these?
Communication and interaction
Please describe a time when you needed to share instructions, information and/or guidelines with a group of people who then needed to implement them.
What was the information you needed to convey, who did you need to share it with and how did you ensure that they understood it and were able to implement it?
Team work
Please describe a time when you needed to make multiple efforts to persuade or influence a group of people to support a particular project or task.
What was the project/task, why did you need to gain people’s support, what efforts did you make to gain their support and what was the outcome?
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To apply for this post, please download an application pack and email your completed international application form to: Malawi@christian-aid.org quoting the job reference number.
Please note that CVs will not be accepted.
Job reference: ECRP/KI/01/2011
Closing date: 5pm, Friday 24 October 2011
Interview date: 8 November 2011
Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
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