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The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

Dimensions of Role

Support the successful implementation of AROs influencing strategy

• Work with Country Offices and the Regional Office team to ensure high quality quantitative and qualitative information is available in AROs priority areas: ending CEFM, Youth Employment Solutions and gender transformative programs.

• Develop quality, concise and visually attractive reports, presentations, briefings for ARO team members to use in their influencing efforts

• Strengthen knowledge management processes in ARO to ensure improved access to information, consistent sharing of knowledge across the team and to promote a culture of learning 

   

  Lead the implementation of AROs research agenda

• Lead phase two and phase three of AROs research on accelerating efforts to eliminate child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) in Asia. This includes, but is not limited to, developing high quality terms of reference, recruiting and managing external researchers, ensuring compliance with Plan International’s Research Standards and ethical approval requirements, coordinating the field work of consultants, coordinating the review of draft reports, providing feedback to consultants in a clear and concise manner)

• Work with regional communications specialist to develop clear, concise and targeted reports, briefings, and presentations of the results of the research.

• Share the results of the research with country office teams and Plan International’s global networks.

   

  Provide technical M&E input to relevant regional office projects:

• Work with regional project managers to ensure high quality monitoring, evaluation and research (MER) components in all regional project proposals.

• Povide hands-on technical assistance to regional project managers in all aspects of design, monitoring and evaluation, including the development and implementation of M&E systems and tools.

• Ensure all regional office projects comply with Plan International’s global Evaluation Standards.

• Support regional project managers to develop high quality terms of reference reference for all regional office project baselines and evaluations.

• Control confidentiality, security, storage and destruction of data collected during regional office initiatives in line with Plan’s global standards

   

  Other

• Support efforts by Plan International’s global M&E team to strengthen M&E practice across the Asia region, including leading and rolling out any new initiatives

• Participate in RO team meetings as appropriate

• Other tasks as requested

   

  Dealing with Problems

  Application of knowledge required for the role, complexity of problems handled & the degree of investigation, analysis, & creative thinking required to solve them.

                                                                                               

Successful communication with people with a variety of first languages and varying ICT skills, in multiple locations, is required. It is necessary for the post holder to use communication and corporate system tools adaptively, to meet these demands. The post-holder will need to handle challenges with pragmatism and flexibility and have the ability to convince people to modify practices and procedures that they have grown accustomed to.

Communications and Working Relationships

Working contacts inside and outside the organization; include the purpose and level (high, medium, low) of the contact

High level contact: ARO team and Country Office MER Managers/Officers

Medium level contact: IH M&E team, Deputy Country Directors – Programs

Low level contact: Country Directors

Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours Required to Achieve Role’s Objectives

Knowledge

• Good knowledge of results based management and the design of M&E tools and systems

• Excellent knowledge of research methodologies and ethical considerations when conducting research with children and youth. 

• Knowledge of development issues, trends, challenges and opportunities

• Familiarity with Microsoft Office software, particularly Excel and Access.    

• Knowledge of analysing data and summarising findings. Knowledge of specialist software (SPSS, STATA, epi-info, CSPro or similar) an advantage

   

   

Qualifications

• Preferably a Master’s degree in a relevant area (demography, statistics, planning, development studies, social sciences or other relevant field).

• At least 3 years of experience in planning, monitoring and evaluation of social development programs.

Skills

• Strong analytical skills

• Good skills for data base management (design, entry, analysis)

• Ability to deliver to tight deadlines and budgets

• Good facilitation and coaching skills

• Strong attention to detail

• Ability to communicate findings effectively and clearly

• Good written and oral English communication

Behaviours

• Coaches and builds capacity of staff at different levels

• Promotes innovation and learning

• Demonstrates willingness to learn new systems

• Culturally-sensitive, respect diversity

• Shares information openly and communicates clearly and effectively

• Anticipates needs and plans accordingly

• Has a positive, proactive and professional attitude

Physical Environment and Demands:

May be “typical office environment”; note if heavy lifting, climbing, excess travel, etc.

• Office environment, located at the Regional Office in Bangkok, Thailand. The post holder may occasionally be asked to travel within the region.

Level of Contact with Children:

Low contact:     No contact or very low frequency of interaction

This is local hire which mean there is no internaional benefit offer

Location: Bangkok

Reports to: Head of Influencing and Policy

Closing Date: 25 February 2018

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