The Nal’ibali Trust Current Job Position

The Nal’ibali Trust is a national reading-for-enjoyment campaign that seeks to spark and sustain a culture of reading, via advocacy, training, partnerships, and high-quality reading material.
 
Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Manager

Job Location: Cape Town
 
Responsibilities: 

• Monitoring and evaluation: Manage implementation and strengthening of Nal’ibali monitoring and evaluation system, develop and roll out monitoring and evaluation frameworks/tools/processes for new projects, and ensure quality and integrity of monitoring and evaluation data
• Reporting: Manage reporting to funders, ensure reporting deadlines are met, and ensure reports are of a high standard
• Research: Plan and implement internal evaluation and quality assurance processes, support external evaluations, and contribute to research agenda
• Leadership and management: Manage a geographically-dispersed team of junior monitoring and evaluation staff
• Capacity building: Train staff members on monitoring and evaluation tools and processes
• Collaboration: Work with other departments to ensure monitoring and evaluation and research processes and findings are integrated into all projects, and used to nurture a culture of high performance and evidence-based decision-making 

Requirements: 

• Honours or Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. Monitoring and Evaluation, Economics, Statistics, Social Sciences, Business or Public Administration, Social Development), or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of five years’ relevant work experience
• Experience working in the education, literacy development, and/or community development sectors, and experience working on behaviour change campaigns, is advantageous
• Experience developing, implementing and strengthening large-scale monitoring and evaluation systems
• English writing and communication skills, with significant experience reporting to funders
• Proven track record of managing projects
• Proven track record of managing people, and of building capacity via mentoring and training, strong facilitation skills desirable
• Proven track record of quantitative data analysis and interpretation
• Significant experience using Salesforce CRM platform strongly preferred, including building reports and dashboards
• Research design and implementation experience desirable, including quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Competency in at least one South African language in addition to English is strongly preferred 
• An independent and driven self-starter, able to work proactively and independently with minimal supervision, and turn ideas into realistic plans and processes
• A focused, efficient person, able to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment and multi-task without compromising quality of delivery
• A collaborative, developmental team player, with well-developed interpersonal and communication skills, able to manage and mentor a geographically-dispersed, diverse team and work well across departments
• A versatile, detail-orientated data nerd, who is experienced at collecting, cleaning, analysing and interpreting both quantitative and qualitative data
• A clear and compelling communicator, who can produce well-structured, high-quality reports, communicate data to a variety of audiences and effectively train people on monitoring and evaluation tools and processes
• A strategic and analytical person, who can both see the big picture and wrestle with detail
• A person who is passionate about literacy development and social justice 

To apply

ubmit your motivational letter and CV to [email protected] with your name and surname, position title on the subject line, (e.g. Asanda Dlamini: Monitoring and Evaluation  Manager)

Application Deadline: Friday, 26 April, 2019