This is a permanent full time position with Front Line Defenders based in Blackrock, Dublin, Monday to Friday (35 hours per week).

Salary range: From €52,015 to €66,229 per annum. Placement on scale will be commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Essential Experience, Knowledge and Skills:

• At least 7 years of MEL experience, preferably in the human rights or related sector.
• Excellent experience in analysis of research findings, reporting and presenting.
• Management experience in a relevant field that includes financial management, people management, staff well-being, strategic planning and evaluation.
• Experience engaging with donors.
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Familiarity with global human rights issues.
• A third level qualification ideally in the area of human rights, law, politics, international relations or other relevant discipline.

Responsibilities:

Learning:
• Developing an internal learning plan for the organisation, reflecting FLD’s needs.
• Leading FLD’s internal learning efforts, including the drafting of internal learning papers, in coordination with relevant programme staff, as well as external researchers.
• Ensuring that data brought together and findings from across programmes and regions form a coherent basis for analysis of impact which promotes learning and strategy development for the whole organisation.
• Developing learning papers and products for external audiences based on FLD’s internal learning data.

Monitoring
• Maintaining and updating FLD Organisational Implementation Plan and results framework.
• Overseeing the roll-out and ongoing improvement of M&E tools and mechanisms, including FLD’s internal database.
• Supporting the development of project-specific monitoring tools.
• Engaging with various FLD teams to ensure the collection of timely and quality data on all areas of work, and cultivating an organisational culture which prioritises quality programming, including regular training for relevant colleagues.
• Representing FLD at relevant inter-NGO and government-level meetings related to MEL to enhance best practices related to sharing and learning.

Evaluation
• Developing an evaluation plan for the organisation, reflecting FLD’s needs and donors’ requirements.
• Commissioning and overseeing internal and external evaluations, including specific evaluations requested by donors.

Other
• Supporting strategic decision-making by supporting review of strategic plan implementation, strategic plan adaptations and strategic development.