Job Description

Our vision, our mission and our work are all defined by one goal \xe2\x80\x93 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\xe2\x80\x99s livelihood development and humanitarian assistance programmes and support Concern\xe2\x80\x99s 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 (\xe2\x82\xac51,402- \xe2\x82\xac60,472 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

Documentation and Presentation

• Ability to communicate complex information in an accessible format.
• Excellent presentation skills.

Capacity Building

• Experience of capacity building of both Concern and partner staff in MSD and CVA.
• Experience in developing practical guidance and templates for use with head office and country-based staff.

Team Work

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and ability to operate as part of a team as well as working independently.
• Excellent spoken and written English

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Desirable:

• Prior work experience with Concern
• Ability to work through French
• CALP CVA certification
• Experience of Durable Solutions to Protracted Displacement, and/or Climate Resilience approaches
• Knowledge and understanding of research methodologies

You will report to the Senior Adviser for Food and Nutrition Security and Lead of the Livelihoods Programming Support Team and work closely with SAL Technical Advisers, Desk Officers in the International Programmes Directorate and key overseas staff, as well as with the staff in Concern internal working groups.

We encourage all eligible candidates, irrespective of gender, ethnicity and origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organisation. Concern is against all forms of discrimination and unequal power relations, and is committed to promoting equality.

If this role sounds right for you, please apply with your CV and cover letter. We will respond to every applicant. Please be aware we may offer positions before the closing date.

If you have any concerns about our recruitment process and need particular assistance - for example if you have a visual impairment or are neuro-divergent - please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Important information:

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible . These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organization, and the standards of behavior expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organization to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern\xe2\x80\x99s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.

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