Girl Child Rights-GCR is a National NGO founded in 2007and registered in July 2008 in Chimoio town of Manica province in central Mozambique. GCR’s mission is to empower girls with information, knowledge, life and soft skills required to reach their fully potential. GCR’s development work focuses on Child Protection, Girl Education, HIV and TB prevention, care and treatment, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR), Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) prevention, response.
Girl Child Rights is recruiting an experienced Program Manager for an aniticipated USAID project providing support to increase civil society engagement in the long-term sustainability of early grade reading activities in Nampula and Zambezia Provinces.
USAID’s Community Engagement in Bilingual Education Project’s overall purpose is to
increase civil society engagement in the long-term sustainability of Early Grade Reading (EGR) activities. Strengthening civic engagement on improving reading outcomes will act as a driver to push the educational system to perform better and deliver higher quality services to students. In order to achieve this objective, the activity will ensure:
The Program Goal is to raise parent and community awareness of the importance of bilingual education and to strengthen school council’s role in holding teachers and school managers accountable for improved service delivery as measured by improvements in reading instruction, rates of teacher and student absenteeism, drop-out rates, and girls’ attendance and learning outcomes.
GCR will serve as the project’s implementation lead in Mozambique, and the project will be known as ‘Projecto Bilingue’.
The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer shall be responsible for developing and oversee project monitoring, evaluation, research, learning, and reporting, including appropriate indicators, tracking against targets, assessing performance, conducting surveys and assessments, documenting lessons learned and producing timely, accurate, and complete reports. The MEL Officer will effectively integrate the overall learning agenda for this Activity into the MEL Plan, including a focus on implementation research, so that learning is incorporated into every aspect of the bilingual education programming—from activity design to service delivery, to utilization/uptake, and adherence. S/he will develop efficient processes and systems for translating lessons learned into practice, to allow timely resolution of implementation challenges and scaling up of effective bilingual education and gender interventions.
The position will work under the direct line management of the Program Manager, and is expected to work closely and coordinate with the implementing partners’ operations staff.
Management of all MEL activities including data collection and knowledge management, progress reporting, evaluations and setting the research agenda.
Support project accountability to communities, including engagement with community stakeholders and regular collection of feedback.
Employment is contingent upon USAID award.
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the GCR Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with GCR Health and Safety policies and procedures