Deadline: 06 November, 2020
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Plan International is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Accountability Advisor.
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
Responsibilities
- Map out existing accountability practices and procedures across consortium partners, including existing protocols for reporting escalation and response mechanisms for serious feedback
- Develop an accountability framework for the PlayMatters project, utilising existing practices and procedures
- Develop a consortium-wide escalation and response system for serious feedback
- Deliver training to programme teams on accountability practices, procedures, and tools
- Support programme teams to set up and maintain child-friendly and gender-sensitive feedback mechanisms, including training staff on the Plan International Child-Friendly Feedback Mechanisms Toolkit and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA)
- Drive forward new ways for programme staff to utilise feedback for learning and programme improvement/iteration
- Regularly receive, analyse, compile, and report on feedback to consortium members through the PlayMatters MEL working group
- Report on serious issues, such as protection, GBV, PSEA, as they arise through feedback mechanisms or other means to appropriate focal points
- Liaise with the research working group to ensure that accountability and feedback mechanisms and practices are mainstreamed through all research initiatives across the consortium, including control communities not specifically targeted by the PlayMatters project
- Support external non-consortium partners who take up PlayMatters approaches during the path to scale to ensure that accountability and feedback mechanisms and practices are mainstreamed through related programming
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Social Sciences, International Development, Education, Humanitarian Response, Monitoring and Evaluation, Accountability, or a related field
- Seven years, minimum, of experience working in emergency or development Contexts
- Five years, minimum, of experience working on monitoring and evaluation and accountability design and implementation
- Experience in providing technical support and guidance in monitoring and evaluation and accountability
- Proficiency in English
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to communicate and work well with others across countries, cultures, and contexts
- Strong computer skills (i.e. good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Outlook)
- Strong data analysis and critical thinking skills
To apply and for more information, click here.
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