An exciting opportunity for an Evaluation & Learning lead role at VSO to support evidence and knowledge building in the area of social accountability, local governance, primary actor participation & voice, safeguarding across VSO’s global programmes in health, education, livelihoods and fragile space/emergencies. We are looking for an experienced person who will work closely with other Evaluation & Learning, Research, and Monitoring roles in the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning Team as well as with Practice Areas (Health, Education, Livelihoods) and Programme Development Teams in VSO to measure and demonstrate VSO’s volunteering for development methodology, evidence, and impact.

Evaluation Quality and Knowledge:

• Develop standards and guidelines, methods and tools related to social accountability and people’s participation vis a vis volunteering to be applied for their measurement and learning in VSO’s global programmes; strive for research and innovations in evaluation methods and tools related to social accountability and people’s participation, in particular.
• Lead measurement of and learning in VSO’s volunteering for development (VfD) pathway and outcome related to volunteering, social accountability and people’s participation across VSO’s global programmes.
• Plan and conduct annual synthesis exercises across VSO’s global programmes and produce global level analytically learning reports and knowledge products on contributions of social accountability and primary actors voices along with volunteering leading to programme and VfD outcomes; feed learning back to global programmes for improvement in programme design, evaluation quality; disseminate across global programmes for shared knowledge.
• Plan and generate high-quality evidence and lessons learnt related to volunteering vis a vis social accountability and people’s voice for VSO’s annual reporting and investment decision making across global programmes.
• Recruit and work with volunteer specialists related to social accountability and people’s participation & voice to strengthen evaluation quality, knowledge development, capacity and knowledge sharing across VSO’s global programmes.

Business Pursuit:

• Lead design of robust evidencing and learning plans in proposals across VSO’s global programmes from the perspective of social accountability and people’s participation in programme implementation.
• Participate in donor and other relevant forums strategic to evaluation for methodology, evidence and knowledge sharing, visibility, and organisational learning including in social accountability and people’s participation.
• Work with other colleagues in ‘Knowledge, Evidence, and Learning’, global programmes/Practice Areas for development of concept notes and pre-positioning papers from social accountability and people’s participation evidence perspective.

Capacity Building

• Build knowledge and skills of M&E colleagues in programmes/projects to apply evaluation standards/guidelines, methods and tools for consistent, coherent practice and high quality, sustainable capacity in project/programme evaluation.
• Work with M&E colleagues, volunteers and partners across VSO’s global programmes to build shared understanding, knowledge, systems, and practice in evaluation related to social accountability and people’s participation.
• Promote project/programme teams for cross programmatic knowledge sharing related to lessons learnt in social accountability and people’s voice in VSO programmes.

Team Building

• Work positively with others in the knowledge, evidence, and learning (KEL) function for shared knowledge and planning, collaborative action, and coherent representation of the function.
• Work positively with other programme functions and practice areas for wider organisational knowledge sharing, planning, learning and action as required.
• Undertake reasonable additional assignments as requested and important for the organisation.

• Experience of leading/conducting large-scale evaluations, measuring social accountability related work and participatory practices.
• Ability to develop, lead and deliver large scale evaluations on time.
• Proven experience of capacity building of frontline staff, volunteers, and partners in quality evaluation practices.
• Volunteering experience in a development organisation in Global South

• Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders within and outside VSO and initiative for cross-function collaboration for quality evidence and knowledge building, sharing, and utilisation.
• Ability to be open-minded and respectful.
• Ability to be resilient and adaptive to new situations.
• Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships.
• Ability to seek and share knowledge.
• Relevant IT skills; ability and experience in preparation and presentation of complex data in simple, user-friendly forms that are effective for learning and adaptation
• Ability to work outside usual working hours from time to time.

If you’re interested in applying for this role, please download the job description for more information.

To submit your application, click on the link https://www.vsointernational.org/about/careers/evaluation-and-learning-specialist-social-accountability-participation-a0m3z00000d7qzwaaj?source=myJobsinKenya and complete all relevant fields on the online application form before 10th August 2020