Deadline: 15 December, 2023

Location: Remote

Power Up is seeking to fill the position of Knowledge and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Specialist.

Power Up is an alliance of women’s rights organisations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that feminist analysis and intersectional lenses are effectively adopted/reflected in work plans, reports, research, and knowledge products and integrated throughout advocacy and communication activities
• Lead the documentation, analysis and dissemination/sharing of key findings from research and learning initiatives
• Coordinate quality assurance of the knowledge and communication products, ensuring alignment of messaging and its usefulness for programme and influencing decision-making, as well as robustly demonstrating the organisation’s impact
• Proactively harness knowledge from learning exchanges, research and evaluations to generate solid evidence for programme, influencing initiatives and programme design
• Promote cross-country/regional knowledge exchange and learning among members of the organisation, local partners and other relevant allies to support solidarity and alliance building
• Lead the MEL working group and coordinate all the monitoring, evaluation and learning
  activities
• Support consortium partners to adapt and improve their MEL systems to support their own and Power Up’s learning, planning and reporting
• Lead the consolidation of quantitative targets and results, as well as writing and consolidation of annual narrative plans and reports to demonstrate the scale and impact of work
• Organise and facilitate joint planning and sense-making sessions to learn from activities and results of  programme
• Provide the coordination committee, MEL and communications working groups with timely and accurate information to be able to steer the programme where necessary, support collaborative learning and decision-making and document the process for internal reference
• Ensure data integrity of evaluation work in database and manage the tools and systems needed for tracking and reporting Power Up’s performance
• Participate in MFA training sessions, meetings and webinars related to MEL to ensure relevant
  information shared with partners and identify areas where Power Up can influence/contribute to the MFA learning agenda
• Engage with other Power of Women consortia to cross-pollinate and collaborate
• Propose creative ways to improve MEL-related processes that are less burdensome and align
  with the feminist MEL principles adopted by the consortium

Requirements

• Commitment to feminist intersectional values
• Experience in social justice spaces, (e.g., community organising, advocacy, or feminist movement building)
• Experience in an area where the organisation operates (desirable)
• Five years, minimum, of demonstrable experience
• Demonstrable knowledge and skills in applying feminist, decolonial, and/or participatory forms of knowledge production, monitoring, evaluation and learning
• Ability to lead multicultural and multilingual teams in MEL co-design, implementation, and
  coordination across diverse contexts
• Experience with applying MEL to different needs, such as knowledge production and communications
• Ability to design/simplify/adapt complex processes and tools in shifting contexts, and problem-solving skills
• Experience with training and coaching teams on MEL knowledge and skills, particularly in diverse or cross-cultural settings with a range of skill levels
• Excellent analytical, writing and editing skills (in English) particularly for narrative reports,
  synthesis of data, generating compelling stories of change
• Comfortable working virtually, across time zones, with flexibility in working hours as needed
• Ability to travel internationally as needed
• Experience navigating donor-driven MEL requirements while holding feminist MEL principles
• English speaker and writer

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