Summary
Date Posted: Friday, October 27 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Summary:
You will lead strategy development for MEAL within SARO and take lessons from the SARO experience to global efforts. You will provide technical leadership and advice to SARO programs, platforms, projects and sectoral technical advisors in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to advance the delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable. Your expertise, leadership, and influence will be key in determining how effective, adaptive and innovative CRS’ programming is and its success at reaching impact at scale in SARO and across the globe.

Responsibilities
Roles and Key Responsibilities:
• Provides technical review and support across range of sectoral projects
• Lead design and implementation of SARO-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices for MEAL that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Ensure a cross-sectoral approach that integrates agriculture, youth, peacebuilding, gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction.
• Incorporate required and emerging good practices into regional MEAL efforts and ongoing technical support.
• Serve as champion/lead on CRS MEAL Policy and Procedures to improve program quality; work with CPs to ensure the implementation of MPPs
• Serve as SARO’s champion/lead on Global Results reporting working closely with PIQA MEAL colleagues and provide support to CPs in all aspects of GR reporting.
• Lead development and advancement of SARO and agency-wide standards, policies, innovative approaches and tools for MEAL including application of partnership principles, with particular emphasis on tracking impact at scale.
• Lead capacity strengthening initiatives for staff and partners through ensuring development of learning agendas/curriculums, organizing and/or facilitating trainings, workshops and conferences, leading a community of practice and mentoring and coaching staff in innovative CRS approaches and tools. Provide mentoring and coaching to TAs, as well as CP, platform and regional staff.
• Play a key role in the development and implementation of the agency’s approach to measuring influence and catalyzing scale, in coordination with the CASCADE Project.
• Provide technical assistance to research activities in SARO.
• Lead and provide support to the regional office and Country Programs in the use of appropriate ICT4D solutions, design of digital forms for data collection and the design of approaches for data visualization that facilitate the use of data and quality reporting
• Participate in the selection and onboarding of MEAL staff, ensuring the communication of an agency approach to MEAL.
• Manage an Accountability and Learning/KML (title to be confirmed) staff to be hired in FY2024
• Effectively manage talent and supervise the ____ (above position). Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, and complete performance assessment for direct reports. Ensure integration of direct-reports as well as matrixed team members, such as MEAL leads from country programs.
• Contribute to regional, platform and country program staff efforts to pre-position CRS for strategic growth opportunities through supporting consistent and meaningful data generation, storage, analysis and translation into evidence.
• Provide technical guidance in proposal development and project design with a focus on complex projects to ensure innovative MEAL solutions, technical excellence and sound MEAL plans.
• Lead and support CPs in SMILER+ and overall MEAL system development processes.
• Lead SARO knowledge management and learning agendas through setting conditions for collective learning that ensure the capturing, documenting, and sharing of key successes, promising practices, lessons learned, and evidence-based implementation research, internally and externally, including publications in peer reviewed journals.
• Participate in monthly meetings with MEAL advisors from other regions and headquarters to coordinate efforts, share learnings and guide priorities for the agency’s MEAL practice.
• Review scopes of work and proposals for project evaluations and research proposals, ensuring the highest quality standards are implemented in SARO.
• Prepare/support SARO Country Program staff as appropriate to represent CRS at regional and global forums, UN, and major donor forums to present CRS’ work and research to influence technical partner approaches, future funding opportunities, and policies. Network with relevant organizations to increase CRS’ profile in its priority areas, influence in the global agriculture, peacebuilding, community, and donor diversification.
• Consolidate the learning on MIRA (Monthly Interval Resilience Analysis) in SARO and work with CP leads to enhance and expand its use in SARO CPs.

Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
• Master’s Degree in field(s) related to International Development required. PhD or equivalent degree (e.g., MD, DrPH, EdD) a plus.
• Minimum of seven years of work experience in research, monitoring and evaluation, with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with three years overseas in multiple regions as a technical advisor and/or program manager of research, monitoring and evaluation.
• Strong understanding and application of technical principles and concepts for research, monitoring and evaluation.
• Good knowledge of related disciplines to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach.
• Track record of contributing significantly to successful business development activities capturing public and/or private donor funding.
• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation including development of indicators, data collection tools and methodologies, data analysis, and data presentation.
• Experience and skills to represent the organization at meetings with donors, government, international NGOs, local partners – faith-based and civil society. Understanding of partnership principles.
• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications and strong understanding of information and budget management systems and knowledge-sharing networks.
• Experience in the development and production of curricula, tools, and other products to support monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning.
• Demonstrated experience to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring, and other formal and informal methods.

Preferred Qualifications
• Technical and/or academic publications highly desirable
• Excellent relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings.

Required Languages – English fluency, French professional-level fluency highly recommended.

Travel – Must be willing and able to travel up to 50%. Telecommuter.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Excellent strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment and decisions
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including research publications
• Excellent presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills
• Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented

Supervisory Responsibilities SARO Accountability and Learning/KLM RTA (title to be confirmed, hiring pending)

Key Working Relationships:
Internal: Reports to the DRD/PQ; PIQA MEAL Advisors; SARO CP MEAL staff and managers; SARO and HQ Platform leads and technical staff; SARO HOPs; SARO BD Managers; SARO Communications staff; SARO RTAs; GKIM
External Partners (including but not limited to the Catholic Church), PVOs, PVO networks, academic institutions, national governments. Donors. Peer agencies. Academic and research institutions.

Agency REDI Competencies (for all CRS Staff):
Agency competencies clarify expected behaviors and attitudes for all staff. When demonstrated, they create an engaging workplace, help staff achieve their best, and help CRS achieve agency goals. These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.
• Personal Accountability – Consistently takes responsibility for one’s own actions.
• Acts with Integrity – Consistently models values aligned with CRS Guiding Principles and mission. Is considered honest.
• Builds and Maintains Trust – Shows consistency between words and actions.
• Collaborates with Others – Works effectively in intercultural and diverse teams.
• Open to Learn – Seeks out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.

Agency Leadership Competencies:
• Lead Change – Continually looks for ways to improve the agency through a culture of agility, openness, and innovation.
• Develops and Recognizes Others – Builds the capacity of staff to reach their full potential and enhance team and agency performance.
• Strategic Mindset – Understands role in translating, communicating, and implementing agency strategy and team priorities.

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education: Associate Degree

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