Organizational Profile

Tostan is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group headquartered in Dakar, Senegal and at the moment working in 5 West African international locations. At a strategic stage, the group is dedicated to persevering with to develop its core competencies of empowering schooling and documenting and measuring its sustainable impression on a spread of points. Tostan’s flagship mannequin, the three-year Group Capability Constructing Program (CCBP), has reached 1000’s of communities in West and East Africa since 1991. Outcomes in governance, schooling, well being, financial empowerment and the surroundings are at the moment being monitored, and Tostan is especially happy with having performed an necessary position within the large-scale empowerment of girls and women and communities abandoning dangerous practices comparable to feminine genital mutilation and youngster marriage . As a part of its strategic engagement plan for 2023-2030, Tostan is targeted on strategic growth. The group is growing new implementation methods to assist group leaders by way of attaining broader systemic change on the regional stage. It has additionally created new fashions for sharing and replicating its packages with different growth companions, and expanded its skill to share Tostan’s international strategy to assist and affect a spread of native and international audiences. For extra data, please go to: www.tostan.org

Roles and Duties

Beneath the supervision of the Venture Management Staff (PLT), the Director of Evaluation, Studying and Knowledge Analytics’ mission is to drive Tostan’s data-driven studying and evaluation system to ship strategic and programmatic success to the group and ecosystem companions by way of core actions :

technical

• Lead the event of the proof base required for organizational strategic choices;
• Lead the common evaluate and revision of the M/E technique to generate proof on the group’s skill to enhance its wellbeing, social change (together with modifications in gender-related social norms), wellbeing, modifications in particular dimensions of early childhood growth, peace and safety and Different areas of want, involving group the place acceptable;
• Lead the event and evaluate of methods to watch and consider Tostan’s contribution to group well-being by way of coaching, sharing and mutual studying actions with a community of NGOs and spiritual leaders and different growth companions, partaking them as acceptable;
• Plan and oversee the gathering, processing and evaluation of blended strategies information for evaluation (district and group diagnostics), exercise and progress monitoring and analysis (baseline, interim, closing) workouts;
• Oversee the institution and administration of databases, together with digital information assortment techniques and instruments;
• Develop visualizations and dashboards primarily based on generated proof for strategic dissemination internally and with exterior companions;
• Present technical steerage and assist to challenge management groups on adaptive studying and planning by way of common evaluate and revision of outcomes and logical frameworks and project-specific monitoring/analysis plans;
• Develop strategic exterior partnerships to conduct evaluations, together with impression assessments and analysis;
• Publish analysis in tutorial and non-academic journals to supply proof of Tostan’s findings and to realize additional understanding of Tostan’s growth strategies and why they’re efficient.

handle

• Usually evaluate Tostan MERL technique and imaginative and prescient and revise high-level objectives;
• Develop annual work plans and key efficiency indicators primarily based on Tostan’s strategic plan and monitor their progress;
• Develop visualizations and dashboards for core information evaluation processes:
• Set, monitor, handle and report on budgets and expenditures for work carried out by the Tostan Worldwide (TI) MERL workforce;
• Guarantee Tostan’s inner and exterior illustration inside the MERL workforce as requested (conferences, conferences);
• Supervise Tostan worldwide and nationwide MERL officers within the administration of multinational partnerships and program initiatives;
• Recruit and supervise worldwide and nationwide MERL employees, together with volunteers and distant employees, and handle consultants employed to assist MERL actions;
• Guarantee worker expertise growth and competency wants are met on the worldwide and nationwide ranges by way of efficiency critiques and the event and implementation of coaching plans when crucial;
• Turn into a pacesetter within the TI MERL division and encourage others. Be a task mannequin for efficiency and engagement with different workforce members. Resolve inner challenges by way of constructive, optimistic dialogue and teamwork.

This checklist isn’t exhaustive and the Director of Evaluation, Studying and Knowledge Evaluation will likely be required to carry out another duties which may be assigned to him/her which might be related to his/her abilities or place.

key relationship

Line supervisor: Senior Venture Officer/PLT Coordinator, Venture Management Staff

Supervision: All TI MERL staff, nationwide MERL focal factors (act as technical supervisors, not direct experiences), worldwide and nationwide MERL volunteers/consultants.

localization: Headquartered in Thie, Senegal – (25% of the time distant)

journey: As much as 25% of this job will likely be spent on journey, primarily to nation workplaces when essential to carry out area oversight duties and to interact with donors throughout area visits.

Key {qualifications} required:

educate:

• Grasp’s diploma in arithmetic, statistics, worldwide growth, human rights; Worldwide schooling or different associated social science disciplines;
• PhD/PhD is very fascinating.

language abilities:

• Glorious written and spoken French abilities required;
• Glorious written and spoken French abilities required;

Data and expertise:

• Not less than 10 years of monitoring, analysis or analysis expertise with expertise in a world and multicultural context, 7 years of expertise required for candidates with a PhD;
• Demonstrated technical skill to design and implement major information assortment and evaluation;
• Expertise writing high-quality evaluation experiences and sharing monitoring information with inner and exterior stakeholders;
• Expertise with information entry and evaluation packages comparable to SPSS (most well-liked), Stata, CS Professional, Epi Information, or related statistical software program package deal;
• Have expertise in qualitative information evaluation, ideally utilizing Nvivo, MaxQDA, Atlas.ti or related qualitative evaluation software program;
• Expertise partaking colleagues in deciphering and studying from analysis outcomes is required;
• Capability to successfully coordinate a number of tasks concurrently, work easily underneath tight time constraints, and full duties on time with consideration to element and high quality.
• Expertise in assessing group well-being and/or abandoning dangerous practices and/or multi-dimensional human growth is very fascinating;

Smooth abilities (traits)

• Get pleasure from working in a small, mission-driven NGO surroundings;
• Requires sturdy analytical abilities;
• Capability to prioritize completely different duties and simultaneous requests;
• Diplomatic and in a position to collaborate with different division heads and chief officers to make high-level strategic choices.

Contract sort: native contract

Our workforce is made up of people that consider in Tostan’s mission to assist communities develop and understand their imaginative and prescient for the long run and encourage large-scale actions to battle for dignity for all.

Imaginative and prescient, mission, values, downside definition

think about

dignity for all

mission

Empower communities to develop and understand their visions for the long run and encourage large-scale actions to attain dignity for all.

values

Love – Integrity, Respect and Humility – Studying and Innovation – Sustainability – Partnerships – and Dialogue

downside definition

An absence of success in empowerment and casual schooling, mixed with poverty and entrenched social norms, creates an surroundings that doesn’t adequately put together people and communities to appreciate their very own visions of well-being.sustainable group