Senior Officer, Evidence and Learning

Fòs Feminista

Candidate placed
The deadline for applications is Sunday March 31st 2024.

Location:  Flexible location in Latin America, ideally in Colombia, strongly encourage applications from candidates based in the Global South.
Location type: Remote
Reporting to: Business Intelligence, Evaluation, and Research Associate Director
Annual salary: The annual salary is USD $38,192.40. While salary is calculated in USD, payment may be made in local currency.
Contract type:  Permanent
Working hours: Full-time
Candidate level: Experienced non manager

Background

Fòs Feminista is an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the Global South, Fòs Feminista works as an alliance of organizations in 40+ countries worldwide to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. Fòs Feminista is both the connective tissue that links these diverse partners in an alliance and an active participant in the broader ecosystem of actors working on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ). Fòs Feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action by connecting partners throughout the SRHRJ ecosystem, amplifying innovative partner-led solutions to SRHRJ issues, and catalyzing funding and political will for an intersectional feminist agenda on SRHRJ.

We recognize that the ability of women, girls, and gender-diverse people to make free and informed choices about their sexual and reproductive lives, including to access safe and legal abortion, is central to their life plans and to achieving gender and reproductive justice. Together with partners in the Alliance, we provide access to sexual and reproductive health care and services, including contraception, abortion, and care for victims of gender-based violence, and we reach young people with comprehensive sexuality education. We are at the forefront of advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) from an intersectional lens in national, regional, and global spaces, coordinating with our partners to ensure that diverse experiences, priorities, and voices of the Global South are represented in these spaces. We strengthen intersectional feminist movements and organizations by creating and holding space for partners to participate in an international community built on feminist values of sharing power, diversity, mutual learning, and solidarity and to access resources to strengthen their work.

Purpose of role

The Senior Evidence and Learning Officer will be responsible for using intersectional feminist approaches to cultivate evidence and learning across the Fòs Feminista Alliance. This position will work with the Business Intelligence, Evaluation & Research Associate Director to provide support for both Fòs Feminista’s overall strategy as well as restricted projects.

With a strong ability to think creatively and apply an intersectional feminist lens, the Senior Evidence and Learning Officer will help to inform strategy with evidence and learning by implementing evaluation, research, knowledge management, and learning processes and tools for the Fòs Feminista Accountability and Learning Framework. They will have a particular focus on developing and applying the Framework’s learning agenda. This position will also strengthen Fòs Feminista's capacity to achieve its overall mission by promoting a "learning organization" culture in which processes are continuously improved based on evidence and knowledge. The Senior Evidence and Learning Officer will work closely with various teams to develop and implement a comprehensive knowledge-sharing strategy for the Fòs Feminista Alliance to ensure that evidence-based learnings are systematically generated in a participatory manner, collated, shared, and retained across Fòs Feminista teams, partners, as well as the wider ecosystem.

The incumbent will also be responsible for providing day-to-day monitoring, evaluation, and learning support for restricted projects, particularly those focused on reducing sexual and gender-based violence as well as those that advance safe and legal abortion. The Senior Evidence and Learning Officer will develop, apply, and improve data management, monitoring, evaluation, and knowledge management approaches based on projects’ M&E frameworks, with a focus on streamlined approaches that reflect multiple ways of knowing. They will also be responsible for facilitating participatory sensemaking sessions, systematically compiling insights, and sharing knowledge to advance cross-disciplinary learning across restricted projects.

Accordingly, the position requires working across multiple content areas and effectively collaborating with programmatic, information systems, institutional development, resource mobilization, and clinical, research, and evaluation professionals. The Senior Evidence and Learning Officer must be highly familiar with sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice issues.

Supervisory relationship:

The Senior Evidence and Learning Officer will be a member of the Business Intelligence, Evaluation and Research (BIER) cluster, working under the direct supervision of the Business Intelligence, Evaluation, and Research Associate Director.

Primary responsibilities

Strategic evaluation & research
  • Apply equity-focused intersectional feminist principles to monitoring, evaluation, and research practices and tools utilized across the Fòs Feminista Alliance.
  • Guide organizational strategy using best practices and evidence from monitoring, evaluation, and research.
  • Collaborate with programmatic teams from planning to engagement, reflection, and adjustment of programmatic strategies; advise their assessment needs at the planning stage.
  • Support the development of evaluation frameworks for emerging priority areas.
  • Review evidence, including what has been successful within Fòs Feminista, and consult with other organizations to ensure that evaluation and research designs are informed by the field's salient literature and tools.
  • Identify innovative, effective approaches for elevating the voices of women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programming.
  • Collaborate with the Business Intelligence & Research (BIER) team to ensure the systematic application of best practices in monitoring, evaluation, and research approaches across program areas.
  • Develop and sustain working relationships with key stakeholders, building diverse internal and external networks to strengthen the BIER cluster.
Knowledge management & learning
  • Together with the BIER team, support the implementation of the Accountability & Learning Framework and lead the design and implementation of its learning agenda.
  • Identify internal learning needs within Fòs Feminista and Partners. Develop and implement a comprehensive knowledge management strategy that responds to those needs.
  • Drive the creation, maintenance, and use of high-impact knowledge and learning assets across all programmatic areas for internal and external stakeholders.
  • Systematically embed up-to-date, leading knowledge-sharing best practices into organizational operations and spearhead continuous improvement of Fòs Feminista’s knowledge management practices.
  • Work closely with the Sustainable Ecosystem Unit, Global Advocacy for Change Unit, Resource Mobilization, and Digital Communications unit to ensure consistent and coherent knowledge transfer and learning across the organization.
  • Lead the development, management, and support of knowledge management systems, such as Fòs Feminista's Learning Management System, intranet, and surveys.
  • Coordinate the creation and management of courses that support effective knowledge management and learning across the Fòs Feminista Alliance.
  • As needed, offer innovative approaches to enhance the organization's existing strategic and program development processes.
Restricted project support
  • Provide day-to-day data management, monitoring, and evaluation support to assigned restricted projects.
  • Principally responsible for leading periodic review, cleaning, analysis, and reporting of restricted project results, collaborating closely with project technical co-leads to inform technical and programmatic decisions.
  • Prepare analyses of project data in DHIS2 and provide written interpretation based on baselines, targets, and narrative programmatic information in advance of project reporting deadlines.
  • Facilitate participatory sensemaking and learning sessions with project stakeholders, interpreting, compiling, and sharing insights with various audiences for continuous improvement.
  • Develop training materials and provide planned or ad hoc training to project partners to support project data collection, review, cleaning, analysis, and reporting.
  • Drive the development, validation, application, and iteration of a suite of monitoring and evaluation tools planned as part of projects, which follow each project’s monitoring and evaluation framework.
  • Support the continual improvement of data collection tools in DHIS2 and other information systems, identifying ways to align them with intersectional feminist principles and collaborating closely with team members responsible for back-end development of systems.
  • Capture lessons learned, successes, and challenges to inform the development of a knowledge management plan for projects.
Profile
Minimum qualifications:
  • Master's degree in a related field.
  • Minimum of five (5) years of experience in related fields.
  • Fluency in Spanish and English is required.
 Required knowledge, skills, and abilities
  • Demonstrated experience designing, planning, and implementing intersectional feminist evaluation and learning approaches in the Global South, with a preference for direct experience related to sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice.
  • Expertise in quantitative and qualitative evaluation methodologies.
  • Extensive understanding of knowledge management and learning approaches, with solid professional networks within global knowledge management communities.
  • Knowledge of feminist evaluation, equity evaluation, and/or gender-transformative evaluation.
  • High capacity for organization and coordination. Proven ability to work in a team and establish effective work relationships with people of diverse backgrounds.
  • Strong analytical skills, resourcefulness, initiative, and proven ability to develop information and knowledge products.
  • Proficiency in various software tools for data and knowledge management (for example, Excel, DHIS2, learning management systems, or others).
  • Solid understanding of and commitment to sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice in the Global South.
  • Excellent writing skills with proven ability to write with clarity and succinctness.
  • Ability to adapt to emerging evaluation or learning challenges and opportunities, as well as the capacity to be a self-starter capable of troubleshooting and seeking swift solutions to potential setbacks.
  • Ability to work well with multidisciplinary teams and independently.
  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to listen and communicate with different stakeholders at varying levels and varying technical knowledge.
  • Excellent planning skills and the ability to work under tight deadlines.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and cultural competence to respectfully interact with diverse audiences.
  • Knowledge of communications technologies used by and useful to international organizations is a plus.
Safeguarding commitments 

Fòs Feminista is committed to ensuring that the health, rights, and well-being of all children, young people, and vulnerable populations who work and engage with F Fòs Feminista's Team Members and Associated Persons are respected and protected in their interactions with them and requires all its Team Members and Associated Persons to share this commitment. 
 
The successful candidate must: 

•   Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in the United States, in the country of residence, and in the international context. 
•   Sign and adhere to Fòs Feminista's International Safeguarding Policy and Safeguarding Code of Conduct, including the minimum operating standards for protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA). 
•  Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in the United States, in the country of residence, and in the international context. 

Equal opportunity employer statement 
Fòs Feminista is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive rights and health and dismantling inequities from a feminist intersectional lens. Reproductive justice, racial justice, and diversity are driving forces for us. 
 
Fòs Feminista provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, national origin, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital and partnership status, genetic information, veteran status or any other protected category under federal, state and local law. 
 
At Fòs Feminista, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from all kinds of backgrounds to build a diverse workforce in which all social and minority groups are represented. 

To apply for the post
To apply for this role, please submit a copy of your CV/resume and a cover letter outlining your interest in the role and how you fulfil the requirements set out in the job announcement by clicking on the link.

Please contact Karem Armstrong at Karem@darylupsall.com for any queries you may have.

The deadline for application is Sunday March 31st 2024

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