The Resilience Specialist will be responsible for providing technical assistance for the EU funded project titled ‘Strengthening integrated Peace, Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction for cross-border communities in the in the border region of South Omo/Ethiopia, Turkana/Kenya and Eastern Equatoria/South Sudan (SPREAD).
Role Purpose
- Providing technical capacity-building support for the design, planning, and implementation of the project's resilience components, in close collaboration with technical leads based with partners in Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan and DCA Country Offices. This includes identifying training needs and coordinating with relevant colleagues—such as those from DCA Country Offices (COs), implementing partners, DCA Headquarters, or, where necessary, engaging external consultants or trainers.
- Assessing technical experience and evidence from past interventions, as well as staying informed on regional initiatives and research related to resilience, to ensure integration of best practices, lessons learned, and emerging insights into project delivery. Ensuring alignment with DCA’s strategy and programmatic approaches and contributing to their refinement where evidence indicates the need for adjustment.
- Maintaining technical oversight, the Specialist will be expected to take part in relevant networking events and engage in stakeholder relationships, in alignment with the Consortium Project Manager.
- Convene and facilitate monthly meetings of the Consortium Resilience Working Group, ensuring effective coordination, follow-up on action points, and documentation of key discussions and decisions
- Identifying synergies and coordinating with other resilience actions carried out by DCA and partners as well as other initiatives and actors. Internally, this will include regular sparring and sharing learnings with resilience colleagues in HQ (Programme, Advocacy & Learning / PAL Unit) and with colleagues in relevant COs, thereby contributing to building organisational learning. Advising and supporting the Consortium Project Manager and country level resilience colleagues on strategic partnerships and stakeholder engagement.
- Producing and contributing to policy briefing papers and technical reports together with country level and partner technical leads to support decision making processes and knowledge sharing - regionally and in country.
Required Education and Experience
Education:
- Relevant educational background (BSc, MSc) within the field of international development, resilience, environmental, social science or similar fields of expertise.
Experience:
- At least five years' experience of working internationally in climate / resilience issues in humanitarian and development settings.
- Experience within the region, preferably from at least two of the countries in question - Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan. Experience from cross-border interventions is an added advantage.
- Strong technical skills and experience on resilience building programming. In the context of this project, resilience encompasses environmental and climate, social and economic dimensions and emphasizes communities’ leadership and involvement, market-based approaches, gender sensitive and transformative action, human rights-based and conflict sensitive approaches.
- Experience with agro-pastoral and pastoral food and livelihoods systems, integrated natural resources management (and conflict resolution related to natural resources), resilience design, agroecology and ecosystem-based adaptation approaches or similar is an advantage.
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The main responsibilities of the MEAL Officer are:
The MEAL Officer will be responsible for ensuring effective and routine monitoring of SPREAD project activities, with a strong emphasis on timely data collection, management, and analysis to support informed decision-making and enhance programme performance. Under the supervision of the Consortium Project Manager, the MEAL Officer will contribute to the development and implementation of project-specific MEAL plans, working collaboratively with implementing partners, project teams, and relevant government departments to track outputs and outcomes across target communities. Additionally, the MEAL Officer will lead the consortium-wide MEAL function, coordinating closely with Country Office MEAL Managers and partner MEAL focal points to ensure harmonized approaches to monitoring, reporting, and learning across all project components.
MEAL Tool Development and Data Management
- Ensure the integration of the already developed database of all project areas.
- Ensure accountability through regular data updates, data integrity and working in collaboration with the project and partner staff.
- Work with DCA and partner programme staff to ensure the collection of relevant and appropriate data needed for an effective MEAL system which will be utilized in monitoring progress, strengths, weaknesses and gaps in existing projects and services and for reporting on donor commitments.
- Review and update existing data collection tools
- Facilitate bi-annual outcome harvesting workshops and regular project reviews.
Monitoring and Reporting
- Maintain and update the master list SPREAD project.
- Ensure implementation of Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) plans for all consortium locations and partners.
- Carry out regular data quality assessments/audits for MEAL data based on agreed indicators to guide decision making.
- Provide alert to the respective staff on corrective actions required to avoid delays in implementation, including flagging operational issues and risks requiring timely actions.
- Review progress reports from DCA staff/partners and ensure they have evidence to back-up and provide feedback to the respective staff.
- Support donor reporting during interim and annual reporting periods.
- Ensure that cross-cutting issues such as participation, gender, age and disability are effectively addressed/ mainstreamed in all project data.
Assessments, Surveys, Research and Evaluation
- Adhere to accountability requirements by initiating surveys for SPREAD projects and conducting relevant evaluations for the project to meet DCA and donor standards.
- Lead the midterm review in collaboration with consultancy company.
- Ensure that DCA and partners learn from project implementation for decision making and improvement of future project designs.
- Coordinate all project assessments, evaluations, research, and performance evaluation tasks including planning and reporting on the same.
- Assist in the development of Terms of Reference (TOR) for external surveys and consultant recruitment and selection.
- Coordinate the review of all survey reports prepared to ensure quality and accurate reporting.
Learning, Accountability and Capacity Building
- Informed by monitoring, review and evaluation activities, provide relevant evidence for learning from projects to DCA staff, partners, and the donor.
- Share learning and provide constructive comments to colleagues in order to ensure programme quality. Ensure Sex, Age, Disaggregated data, Accountability and Gender standards are consistently adhered in programme delivery.
- Build capacity of DCA and partner staff through training to ensure adoption of new data monitoring tools and quality of data collected.
- Keep abreast of new approaches and tools on MEAL and provide training to DCA and partner staff as requested. Enable staff to monitor and evaluate their own efforts, gather relevant data and produce required progress reports.
- Ensure regular and effective partner communication and follow up on project cycle management related aspects.
- Engage with consortium partners to understand and support them in their own growth trajectory, tailoring the support DCA provides with the needs and request for support from partners.
- Facilitate, monitor and follow up on partner programmatic implementation.
- Analyse partner project data and reports to draw lessons learned and work with the partner to propose corrective measures where necessary.
Required Education and Experience
Education:
- A holder of a degree in Statistics, Social Sciences, ICT, Development Studies, Project Management or other relevant field. A master’s degree would be an added advantage.
Experience:
- A minimum of five years of professional experience in monitoring and evaluation, preferably with INGOs.
- Experience in the usage of Digital Data Collection software such as Kobo, etc.
- Strong skills in qualitative and quantitative data analysis and visualisation using at least three softwares: MS-Excel, STATA, SPSS, Power Bi, NVIVO and other data management software.
- Experience in various approaches to project monitoring and evaluation approaches such as Outcome Harvesting, etc.
- Familiarity with coordination mechanisms, reporting structures, and MEAL harmonization across consortium partners.
- Experience in setting up and maintaining a complex MEAL system that can be used by multiple organisations, across multiple countries.
- Experience with implementing EU funded projects.
- Knowledge of the rights-based approach & the international standards for working with humanitarian response such as SPHERE, Code of Conduct, & Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) is an added advantage.
- Good interpersonal skills and a proven team player. Self-driven and results orientated in challenging working environments.
- Experience in designing and managing logical frameworks, results frameworks, indicator performance tracking tools, and data quality assessments.
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