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Location

Jordan | India

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Job description

Overview
About the Van Leer Foundation
Founded in 1949, the Van Leer Foundation works worldwide to ensure that babies, toddlers and the people who care for them have a good start in life. Our mission is to improve opportunities for all young children, especially the millions of young children growing up in circumstances of social, economic and environmental disadvantage around the world.
We believe the major challenge is the transition to scale of support for babies, toddlers and those caring for them. By working together with governments, civil society, philanthropy, academia, international organisations and business, we find the best programmes and policies to improve children s lives. We partner with them by providing funding, expertise, networks and support to scale these up for maximum impact.
Geographically, our investments are made in focus countries, selected to reflect global diversity in economic, geographic and cultural terms, and a global programme through which we engage strategic replication partnerships that span multiple countries, in some cases extending beyond our core set of countries.

Responsibilities
Overview
The Van Leer Foundation is seeking a consultant to support our portfolio team in Jordan with Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning activities. The consultant would report to the Jordan Portfolio Representative and work in close collaboration with the Jordan Programme Coordinator and the VLF MEL Technical Lead.
Goals
• Support the implementation of the monitoring, evaluation and learning system for the Jordan portfolio ensuring alignment with the global VLF MEL strategy, approach and methodologies;
• Provide regular support for monitoring project indicators, while tracking cumulative and performance indicators, contributing to our learning objectives from a process and impact perspective;
• Promote evidence-based learning and support feedback loops by conducting desk reviews, developing results frameworks, indicator identification and refinement;
• Support the establishment of a data collection and reporting system as well as the development of baseline and endline studies for projects monitoring and evaluation;
• Support data collection exercises for all projects, providing initial support and guidance to the partners regarding best practices and techniques of data collection, in addition to supporting the reading of data and extracting learning to improve project (the implementation partners will be responsible for collecting data, conducting pilots, baseline assessments);
• Build capacity for technical partners and encourage institutionalization of a data collection culture within local partners and government;
• Support the dissemination of findings to relevant stakeholders;
• Work in close collaboration with the VLF MEL Technical Lead to ensure alignment to global MEL strategy, approach, and methodologies along with providing reporting updates as needed;
• Participate in regular meetings with VLF programme team for project updates, sharing of challenges and lessons learned, and to ensure that the monitoring framework remains effective and up-to-date.
• Participate and potentially present in meetings with government officials to support partnership and strategy alignment efforts.

Qualifications
Education and work experience
• Minimum of Master s degree in International Development, International Relations, Social Sciences, Humanities, Psychology, or other field requiring significant research, analysis and writing.
• Minimum 4-6 years of relevant work experience related to MEL/research and reporting on cross-sectoral programmes including demonstrated experience in developing and implementing MEL plans and/or research protocols, ideally in I/NGO or government contexts.
Core skills
• Good understanding of programme design, theory of change and/or logic frameworks.
• Knowledge of research methods with strong analytical abilities, including qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods and impact data collection and analysis.
• Advantage if demonstrated experience in participatory evaluation methodologies
• Fluent in English and Arabic, strong written and spoken skills
•Consultant must be based in Jordan, ideally Amman or able to be in Amman on a frequent basis (cost of travel will not be covered).

Desired Candidate Profile

Education:
Any Graduation()
Gender:
nm
Nationality:
Any Nationality

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