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Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer (100%)
Location: Goma, DRC
Start date: March 2025
Type of contract: 12 months, with the intention to renew
Grade: Entry- to mid-level technical staff
Deadline: 27 January 2025 at 09:00 (Goma time)
Organisation
Impunity Watch (IW) is an international NGO contributing to processes for dealing with the past in countries emerging from violent conflict. We promote integrated and participatory approaches to transitional justice (TJ), working with affected communities and local actors to establish community-based initiatives and increase influence over policymaking. We work to transform gender inequalities and promote youth and women’s participation. Our holistic MHPSS approach links individual and group trauma support with community-focused social action.
Context
IW has recently secured funding for a new project (Pokea Ujuzi na Upone) supporting constructive dealing with the past and holistic MHPSS in the DRC. The project promotes social cohesion by supporting communities to constructively address multigenerational traumas, encouraging inclusive memory transmission, and increasing civil society capacities to promote holistic MHPSS. The project is coordinated by IW and implemented with partners in three provinces – Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu. In parallel, we are implementing two separate projects in the DRC. The first is coordinated by IW and facilitates victim participation in community-driven TJ; the second, coordinated by Cordaid, is the Just Future project, which is ensuring victim perspectives are part of national TJ policymaking.
Working on these three projects, we are seeking a MEL Officer to join our team in Goma.
The position is open to Congolese nationals only. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. We favour talent and personality more than experience. The position is targeted towards entry- to mid-level professionals with a passion for qualitative MEL and IW’s work.
Job description
Under the overall professional supervision of IW’s Country Director, the MEL Officer will support the new project start-up, in particular co-designing MEL tools and setting up the project’s MEL system to effectively monitor progress and impact. We work with classic quantitative indicators to monitor, evaluate, and learn, and we favour qualitative indicators and measures, reflecting the nature of our work and the social change we seek to encourage. The MEL Officer will also work with the MEL frameworks of the ongoing projects, overseeing data collection to evaluate impact as they enter their final phases. The successful candidate will be expected to support partners with all aspects of MEL, including providing bespoke trainings and coaching.
At the global level, IW is in the early stages of designing its organisational MEL framework. We are seeking an enthusiastic colleague to actively contribute to this process.
Our ideal new colleague will combine a passion for MEL with a strong interest and experience in TJ. They will bring creativity and positivity, and will possess keen self-awareness and emotional intelligence. To be successful in this role, we seek someone who delivers excellent quality work and who can effortlessly move between working independently and collaborating with teams and partners.
Responsibilities – Pokea Ujuzi na Upone (45%)
Co-design and set up an innovative MEL system for the project.
Co-develop MEL creative tools to assess and capture project impact, including training staff and partners.
Support processes for developing partner operational plans, providing MEL expertise.
Oversee external evaluation processes, including the project baseline, MTE, and final evaluation.
Organise periodic coaching and data collection actions, assisting partners and gathering data to evaluate impact, test project assumptions, and promote organisational learning.
Consolidate MEL data for donor reports and for online monitoring systems.
Contribute to day-to-day project implementation and activities.
Responsibilities – Victim Participation (45%)
Collect quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate project impact.
Support project partners to gather stories of change data and evaluate lessons learnt.
Consolidate MEL data for donor reports.
Support the writing and production of project reports.
Contribute to day-to-day project implementation, activities, and project closure including sustainability.
Responsibilities – General (10%)
Provide communications colleagues with regular qualitative case studies and stories of change.
Contribute to the design of a bespoke global MEL framework.
Support IW DRC’s other ongoing projects through MEL expertise.
Contribute to the overall implementation of IW’s mission in the DRC, providing MEL expertise in fundraising, strategic planning, and in the implementation of organisational approaches to gender transformation, youth participation, and MHPSS.
About You
Talents, skills & personality
Passionate about the role of MEL in understanding and improving impact in development work.
Creative and innovative.
Rigorous, detail-orientated, and highly organised.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, French, and Swahili.
Proactive, independent, and a team player.
Highly self-aware, emotionally intelligent, and with strong interpersonal skills.
Experience & knowledge
A university degree.
Minimum of 1-2 years working on MEL in a similar role.
Demonstrable knowledge of qualitative MEL.
Demonstrable experience and/or knowledge in a field relevant to IW’s work (e.g. TJ, social cohesion, peacebuilding, MHPSS).
Experience working on gender transformation, youth empowerment, and/or holistic MHPSS.
The following would be considered a plus:
A flair for design and communications.
Experience working with NGOs.
How to apply
If your talents, skills, personality, and experience match with what we’re looking for, please send us the following documents in English:
1.CV
Maximum 2 pages.
Contact details for three named references.
2.Motivation letter
Maximum 2 pages.
Please focus primarily on your talents, skills, and personality.
Applications should be sent to [email protected] with DRC MEL Officer in the description. The deadline for applications is Monday 27 January 2025 at 09:00 Goma time.
Incomplete applications or those sent after the deadline will not be considered. Please note that we are only able to contact shortlisted candidates. IW is dedicated to ensuring an inclusive work environment and is committed to transparency in all recruitment processes.
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