Plan International is a leading girls and children’s rights organization. Plan strives for a just world that advances children's rights and equality for girls. We motivate our people and partners to:
Plan operates in 77 countries around the world. It brings its support to millions of children, their families and communities, mainly in Africa, Asia, Middle East, and South America. It implements projects in the Health, Water and Sanitation, Education, Child Protection, Sustainable Livelihood, and cross-cultural communication. Child sponsorship forms the basis of our work with children. Worth to mention, Plan International global ambition is to support 100 million girls learn, lead, decide and thrive!
As part of its commitment to support Plan International Federation reach 100 million girls so to Learn, Lead, Decide and Thrive, Plan International Liberia has developed a new country strategy which will for the next five years (2019 to 2024) focus on reaching 600,000 marginalized girls and children all over the country, with a strong commitment to work with partners at various levels to put an end to violence against girls and young women including Child Early Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and other norms and practices that hinder their development and empowerment.
Plan International Liberia is committed to ensuring that Child Protection and Youth Safeguarding, Gender Transformative programming and Influencing are key and an integral part of all its work in the country.
Dimensions of Role
Typical Responsibilities - Key End Results of Position
1. Plan International Liberia can provide evidence on the results and effectiveness of their Country Strategy
2. High quality and evidence based programmes and projects through excellent planning, monitoring, evaluation and research practices and knowledge management
3. Plan programme staff and partners have increased MERL capacity
Dealing with Problems
Complexity of problems handled & the degree of investigation, analysis, & creative thinking required to solve them
Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) are crucial components for ensuring high quality outcomes and impact in rights based programming. Barriers that the MERL manager will have to deal with include:
The MER manager needs to be able to:
Communications and Working Relationships
High level contact: Internal: Country Office and PIIA/PU level programme team, in particular the other members of the MERL unit; External: Partners and consultants
Medium level contact: Country Office operations team, the Regional Hub MERL Network, children and young people.
Low level contact: Plan’s fundraising National Offices, Global Hub staff.
Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours Required to Achieve Role’s Objectives:
Knowledge
Qualifications
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