Adviser Research and Organisational Learning – maternity cover

Job title:

Adviser Research and Organisational Learning – maternity cover

Company

Concern Worldwide

Job description

Job Title: Adviser Research and Organisational Learning – maternity coverReports to: Head of Technical Assistance, Strategy, Advocacy and Learning (SAL) DirectorateLiaises with: Other units in the SAL Directorate, Country Offices, International Programmes and Emergency Directorates, Researchers and Academic Institutions, Finance Directorate and Corporate Services.Job location: This position is based in Dublin HQ applying a hybrid working model (working from the Concern Dublin office at least two days per week).Substantial (30%) overseas travel is a part of this role.Pay Band: Band 5 (54,500 – 62,286 EUR)Contract: One year, fixed termJob Purpose:Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and the elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s most fragile and vulnerable countries. Concern is headquartered in Dublin with other support offices in London, New York, Belfast, Seoul and in each of the 27 countries of operation.Concern Worldwide works to develop and scale up effective, evidence-based interventions to promote livelihood security, access to services and wellbeing for extremely poor people and those affected by disaster in some of the most fragile and vulnerable contexts in the world. The organisation actively supports programmes in 27 countries in Livelihoods (including Agriculture, Food Security, Social Protection, Markets and Cash, Climate Change Adaptation and Environment), Health (including Maternal and Newborn Health, Nutrition and WASH) and Education. Programmes address issues of inequality, reduce vulnerabilities to disasters and other risks, are climate and conflict sensitive and include protection actions as needed.The Programme Support Adviser will play a pivotal role in the management of Concern’s substantial research portfolio, including working closely with external researchers and institutions. They will coordinate the production of key reports for Concern’s Board, the production of literature reviews on “emerging” subjects and produce synopsised versions of the final research report for internal use and external dissemination and advocacy. They will also be requested to assist Concern’s country teams with undertaking operational research to improve programming in the specific contexts in which they are operating.Some international travel is anticipated for this position.Key Responsibilities:

• In coordination with the Head of Technical Support, key Technical Advisors and the International Programmes team, oversee the development, coordination and day to day management of Concern’s research portfolio, including:

• contributing to the identification of research partners,
• negotiation of contracts with research institutions,
• support to country teams in establishing research projects
• review of research reports and outputs
• planning for and supporting the dissemination of the research findings.
• Produce the Annual Programme Progress Report (APPR) to optimise internal learning and for submission to Concern’s Senior Management and Board, and support the Country Annual Programme Review process.
• Support the production of Meta Reports for submission to Concern’s Board.
• Undertake regular pieces of research for country teams – including desk based pieces such as external analyses as part of the Country Strategic Planning process, and the production of Concern’s internal Poor Vulnerable Index (PVI), and in country, as part of the support process to contextual analyses
• Support the Senior Management Team in the production of technical background papers on topical subjects (recent examples of such reports in include ‘resilience’ and ‘localisation’), to allow the SMT make informed decisions on the future direction of the organisation.
• Potentially be deployed to support emergency responses for up to six weeks.
• Any other tasks as agreed with the Head of the Technical Assistance Team in SAL.

Skills and Experience Required:Essential:

• A postgraduate research based degree in a multi-disciplinary field, such as Development Studies or in a specific technical area that Concern work in (food security, health, education).
• Experience working in an NGO or development agency ideally with demonstrable experience working in emergency, conflict settings, or fragile states.

• Practical understanding of community driven research approaches, methodologies and tools.
• Strong written skills (an example of which may be requested as part of the interview process).

• Strong analytical and research skills, essential experience in mixed methods research. Experience commissioning and managing research projects is desirable.
• Excellent inter-personal skills with demonstrable experience in supporting processes of coordination and collaboration.
• Ability to work both as part of a team and independently. Adaptable to evolving work priorities and schedules.

• Ability to travel internationally in fragile and conflict affected contexts, sometimes on short notice.

Desirable:

• Functional French language skills.
• Experience working with research institutions, coordination fora and other relevant international livelihoods institutions.

To apply: CVs should be submitted through our website atCandidates must be legally entitled to work in Ireland at the time of application.Concern is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all section of the community.C3 2021Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible . These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.Your Personal DataDuring this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on ensuring that the name of any employee or volunteer (existing or new), does not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List).Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will only be made following a successful clearance check being conducted on the applicant and such checks may be updated periodically during the course of the period of employment.By submitting a formal application for paid or voluntary employment to Concern, you agree to Concern carrying out a clearance check as outlined above and that Concern will not proceed to recruit you should your name appear on any of the aforementioned listsIn certain circumstances, donors may request that personal data relating to employees to work on the activities that they fund be provided directly to them – so that they can perform their own counter terrorism checks. This may involve transferring some basic personal data outside the EEA. It will be a condition of your employment contract that Concern be allowed to share this information with institutional donors for these purposes.For additional information please consult our web site or contact the Human Resource Division in our Head Office.You have certain rights under data protection legislation. For more information on how to exercise those rights please visitPlease only apply for this position if you are satisfied with the proposed processing of your personal data as outlined above.Documents

Expected salary

€54500 – 62286 per year

Location

Dublin

Job date

Thu, 16 May 2024 23:17:07 GMT

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