Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Manager

BACKGROUND

Adyan Vision: Adyan envisions a world where diversity between individuals and communities is lived as enrichment, generating mutual understanding, inclusive citizenship, creative development, sustainable peace, and spiritual solidarity.

Adyan Mission: Adyan works on valuing cultural and religious diversity in its conceptual and practical dimensions, and on promoting coexistence and diversity management among individuals and communities, on the social, political, educational and spiritual levels.

Adyan Strategy: Adyan serves its mission according to a Strategic Plan that includes the Foundation’s goals and their related targets. This strategy is set and reviewed by the Board of the Foundation. It responds, with a contextual approach, to the Foundation’s mission, and connects with other wider strategies as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), especially Goals 4, 5, 10, 11, 16 and 17.

Adyan implements projects across various areas, using a variety of methods. Each project, and potential project, requires a thorough development process, working closely with participants and partners, to design initiatives that are effective, efficient, relevant, achievable, and will safeguard all involved. This includes conducting analysis to understand the context and baseline, formulating clear goals and activities, and developing a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan.

A monitoring and evaluation plan enables Adyan, and partners, to ensure a project is on track, is achieving its aims, can be thoroughly assessed and reported on, and can provide lessons for adaptation and / or future initiatives. It also enables Adyan to be accountable to all project participants and donors.

At the strategic level, Adyan has an M&E framework that tracks the contribution of projects to the organization’s goals and targets. This is crucial in order to monitor progress towards achieving the overall strategic plan. A comprehensive online system for this framework is currently being developed.

Adyan also has a framework for communicating and learning from project lessons and results. This includes internal learning via regular workshops and M&E capacity building. It also includes external sharing of information with key stakeholders, including supporting other organisations working in a similar field.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As a member of the Development & International Relations (DIR) Department, the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager will support the Director of Development & International Relations with collecting, organizing and analyzing data, including via the online system; M&E project coordination; and facilitating organizational learning and sharing of projects lessons and results.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating M&E projects, including liaising with external organizations, managing project deliverables, budget and reporting;
• Managing M&E learning and sharing, including organizing and leading training workshops;
• Supporting project proposal development including sourcing baseline data, and developing M&E indicators
• Leading efforts to launch and strengthen an online data management system; including supporting the Adyan project team with adoption of the system;
• Collecting and organizing project and organizational data in the online system, and producing analysis; developing and managing assessment tools such as scorecards;
• Participating in relevant internal and external events and meeting
• Undertaking other activities as needed to further assist the DIR Department’s work

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Competencies:

• Demonstrates commitment to the three core values of Adyan Foundation, which are diversity, solidarity and human dignity
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
• A team player, who strives to support and be helpful to others, and to support the achievement of organizational goals
• Establishes, builds and maintains effective and respectful working relationships with all team members and external parties
• Demonstrated interest in NGO work in the areas of cultural diversity management and peacebuilding

Required skills and experience:

Education:

• University degree, preferably in social sciences, communications, information management, or a related field

Experience:

• At least five years of experience in information management and analysis;
• At least five years of project coordination experience (preferably with NGOs);
• Experience in online data management systems, including data input and cleaning;
• Experience in organizing and facilitating training workshops and developing learning materials;
• Ideally: experience in monitoring and evaluation of projects.

Skills:

• Excellent attention to detail, particularly regarding data collection and input, and in written communication;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to organize and accurately complete multiple tasks by establishing priorities;
• Ability to work independently;
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook Email.

Language requirements:

• Professional level written and spoken Arabic and English language. Proficiency in French would be an asset.