Position description
A key priority for Australia’s engagement in Cambodia is supporting Cambodia to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. As outlined by the World Bank’s Cambodia Country Climate and Development Report, climate change will exacerbate Cambodia’s existing vulnerabilities, with projected impacts including moderate temperature rise, more hot days, prolonged dry spells, and increased intensity of high rainfall events. In light of these projected impacts, there is a need to strengthen Cambodia’s adaptive capacity. Given the centrality of water to climate adaptation, the Program aims to bring Australia’s water expertise to strengthen planning, implementation, and management of water resources to reduce vulnerability and enhance climate resilience in Cambodia.
The Program will take a gender equality, disability and social inclusion and people-centred approach to reducing vulnerability to climate change and increasing resilient livelihoods and wellbeing. It will also work with local partners to support adaptation initiatives and build local leadership and capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change.
KEY RESPONSIBILITES
Mobilisation and Inception Phase
- Establish and maintain an overall work program for MEL in cooperation with the Team Leader and short-term international MEL Adviser;
- Develop MEL Framework and MEL strategy/plan/system, ensuring alignment with DFAT MEL policies and guidelines, international social protection standards and frameworks, and guidance from the CCRP design document. This will include:
- A strong focus on GEDSI throughout, including disaggregation of data for different excluded, marginalised or vulnerable groups, and ensuring principles do no harm are mainstreamed throughout MEL approaches;
- Consideration of how MEL will be undertaken of downstream partners to ensure standardisation across activities;
- An evaluability assessment;
- Identification and development of key CCRP indicators and basic minimum data sets through which the high-level objectives of CCRP will be measured and analysed, including disaggregated data (wherever possible) to maintain the ability to report on outcomes for women and girls, persons with disability and indigenous peoples;
- GEDSI-sensitive tools for data collection and performance tracking, including:
- Six-monthly program outcome and delivery monitoring, leveraging Philippine Government data sources where possible;
- Case studies, Stories of Significant Change/Significant Policy Change, and outcome harvesting;
- Annual Partnership Reviews/Health Checks (in collaboration with the international Partnerships Adviser);
- External analytics, evaluations and reviews;
- Steering Committee and TWG meetings and dialogues;
- Short, focused thematic reviews;
- Regular meetings with other development partners;
- Data required from multilateral partners who will contribute to CCRP overall objectives.
- Assist the international MEL Adviser to co-design a Performance Assessment Framework with DFAT that promotes a strong performance culture in CCRP;
- Assist with establishing the monitoring system and associated MIS;
- Support the drafting of the Inception Report;
- Ensure all MEL mobilisation and inception phase deliverables are delivered on time and to a high standard;
- Support development of the GEDSI and Communications Strategy, to cover both: 1) activities to ensure GEDSI within the broader Program, and 2) a specific strategic approach to EOPOs.
Delivery Phase
- Manage, maintain and review the implementation of the overarching CCRP MEL Framework and MEL Plan, including:
- Supporting the CCRP team to forecast, track and report against key indicators and targets identified within activities;
- Regularly reviewing the MELF from a GEDSI perspective and ensuring GEDSI responsiveness in how data is collected and reported on;
- Reviewing and providing feedback on MEL related deliverables from activities (including MEL frameworks, regular monitoring reports, evaluation reports and activity completion reports);
- Establish regular communication channels with provincial MEL staff and partners to ensure that data and information is continually channelled into the overarching CCRPMELF;
- Maintaining the CCRP Management Information System (MIS), including ensuring clear linkages between the MEL framework and the MIS, grievance system and processes for quality assurance (spot checks), day-to-day feedback, and change management;
- Annually updating the CCRP MEL Framework and MEL Plan.
- Build a strong MEL culture within the CCRP team, including:
- Act as the main point of contact for the CCRP team for all aspects of MEL design and implementation;
- Develop TORs and assist with recruitment of subnational Planning, Research, Data and MEL Officers, and ensure a capacity building plan for these staff is implemented and documented;
- Conduct ongoing MEL related training and capacity building with the broader CCRP team to ensure that they can effectively monitor, reflect on and report on impact;
- Provide MEL-related advice and support to the CCRP implementation team (including subnational teams) and program partners, as required.
- Implement a quality learning, reflection and adaptation cycle, to ensure that Program implementation is informed by a regular process of learning and adaptation. This will include:
- At least six-monthly review and reflection meetings for CCRP implementing teams and partners, with a particular focus on shared learning and on GEDSI-related lessons;
- An annual learning workshop to bring together partners and other stakeholders to share their work and reflect on their collective impact (including representation from LGUs).
- Support evaluation of CCRP, including:
- Procuring independent assessments, evaluations and studies as required, including annual procurement and management of an independent Technical Advisory Group;
- Supporting the design, implementation, and/or management of activity-specific evaluations or reviews.
- Support strategic communications and knowledge management activities, including:
- Collation of program MEL data, reporting and communications products;
- Supporting team members to translate MEL findings to easily digestible reports, communicating findings back to CCRP partners, and providing strategic advice to the Team Leader;
- Development of feature reports and significant changes stories, which would feed into CCRP’s knowledge products and dissemination;
- Identification and development of strategic communication and knowledge products.
- Reporting progress on MEL related work to the Team Leader;
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as reasonably requested by the Team Leader;
- Support GEDSI integration in implementation to ensure inclusive development approach (including technical input, knowledge studies, advice, review of activity-plans, stakeholder management, partnership brokering with women-led/PwD/IP organisations, reviews, GEDSI-related capacity building activities).
Qualifications
- Postgraduate qualifications in social sciences, evaluation, management, public policy, or other relevant discipline (research and methodological experience encouraged);
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in experience in the field of monitoring and evaluation or social research in the international development sector;
- Demonstrated experience in DFAT MEL implementation and reporting requirements;
- Demonstrated understanding of and experience of ensuring MEL frameworks and systems support program GEDSI objectives;
- Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with program teams or other stakeholders to develop and/or refine program theory, theories of change, and/or program logics;
- Demonstrated experience in developing, modifying, or contextualising M&E tools or approaches for use within specific programmatic contexts;
- Understanding of DFAT’s good practice on gender equality, disability, and social inclusion (GEDSI) approaches in targeted reforms (Gender equality/Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), Do No Harm and gender and social inclusion mainstreaming which will also be applied in all partnerships;
- Advisory experience in disability inclusion, gender equality and social inclusion including working with Indigenous People;
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders from diverse backgrounds;
- Demonstrated ability to design and facilitate organisational learning processes and to quality assure learning processes designed and facilitated by sub-contractors;
- Knowledge and awareness of the different needs of traditionally disadvantaged population groups, such as women, the elderly, ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, and people with disabilities or special mobility needs;
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
DESIRED ATTRIBUTES
- Demonstrated expertise in the implementation and operations management of a large scale DFAT Program working in areas related to government partnership, climate adaptation, GEDSI, local governance, indigenous development and disability inclusion;
- Have the requisite cultural knowledge and ability to work respectfully and effectively in the context;
- Demonstrated success working with the government partners in Southeast Asia;
- Experience managing a team of national consultants to deliver on program objectives and achieve results;
- Experience in ensuring program objectives align with Australia international development priorities;
- Experience in adaptive management of international aid programs;
- High level policy and analytical skills;
- High level interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to convey concepts clearly and concisely;
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of constituencies and cultures;
- Proven track record fostering inclusive and collaborative learning, adaptive management, and data-driven decision making;
- A demonstrated history of success investing in relationships with government representatives and other key partners.
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