Handicap International is an independent and impartial international aid organization working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. Working alongside persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, our action and testimony are focused on responding to their essential needs, improving their living conditions and promoting respect for their dignity and their fundamental rights.
Handicap International is a not-for-profit organization with no religious or political affiliation. It operates as a federation made up of a network of associations that provide it with human and financial resources, manage its projects and implement its actions and social mission.
For more details on the association: http://www.handicap-international.org
Handicap International is composed of 2 operational divisions:
• Humanitarian Action Division (DAH)
• Development Action Division (DAD)
The expatriate will be recruited under the supervision of DAH for this mission.
Under the supervision of the Head of Mission, the Assessment, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Coordinator (AM&EL) will be responsible for setting up and managing an assessment, Monitoring and evaluation & learning unit within the mission.
While the position will be located in Amman, it will require regular contacts & likely movements within the HI response missions.
Within the mission, you will be in charge:
Responsibility 1: Lead the AM&EL unit: set up the unit in accordance with organisation and donors standards and regulations
• Strengthen AM&EL management systems (Database, reporting tools etc.) to help collect and analyse data on the humanitarian context & needs (this involves collection & analysis of primary & secondary data from a large range of stakeholders: HI, partners, media, social media, UN & international organization).
• Design or upgrade monitoring systems and tools
• Coordinate with HI coordinators and partners to put in place assessment, monitoring and reporting workflows
• Help develop and provide quality assurance of data collection systems with staff and partners.
• Oversees AM&EL tools administration including technical updating of database.
• Support Project teams to optimize project implementation;
• Coordinate internal and external project assessment, monitoring mission or project evaluation;
Responsibility 2: Ensure AM&E management products
• Produce information management products, including assessments reports, analytical reports, and maps.
• Lead internal assessments (design, implementation, reporting) and represent HI in humanitarian actors joint assessments.
• Oversees GIS activities: production of maps and quality assurance of other staff producing maps.
• Production of internal, donor and external reporting.
Responsibility 3: Guarantee that Learning and Institutional Knowledge Building is disseminated within HI network & externally
• Ensure lesson learning processes are included in the project management.
• Provide technical support to mission staff involved into lesson learning component.
• Ensure that innovative experience, lesson learning are shared within HI network and promoted in external reporting.
Responsibility 4: Human resources: managing the IM&E team and technical support
• Supervising and leading IM&E team, setting objectives and assessing direct reports;
• Provide training and technical support to the team and partners
• Support the overseeing of the team's career development: defining training needs and providing guidance on professional development, in relation with Programme Coordinator, Support Services Coordinator and Head of Mission
Responsibility 5: Representation / coordination: represent HI and promote AM&EL unit
• Promoting the organisation's mandate and positioning with his/her partners;
• Ensure coordination with other information management stakeholders (e.g. INGO, ACAPS, UN agencies, particularly UNMAS and OCHA) to ensure complementarities and where necessary data interoperability with other relevant systems.
• Upon request of HoM, represent HI in coordination forum related to Assessment & information management.
• Ensure coordination with existing data collection & M&E systems used by HI within the region and HQ.
• Participate to organisation of internal and external events
• Participate and support HQ/regional support mission
• Position based in Amman with regular visites to other HI missions in the regional area (50%)
• Living conditions: guesthouse shared with other expatriates (no charges)
• Security conditions: mid-level•
• Status: Salaried contract. Salary according to the position and experience of the candidate + 457€/month of expatriate indemnity + cost of living index according to the living base
• Starting date: 17/04/2016
• Length of the assignment : 5 months, renewable
• Insurance package: Ilness insurance, retirement pension, repatriation
