Job Summary
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 14th Jan 2022
- Melbourne > Carlton
RedR Australia is an international humanitarian organisation that contributes to humanitarian responses in the Pacific, Asia and the Middle East, and Africa. With offices in Melbourne, Suva (Fiji), and Amman (Jordan), RedR recruits, trains, and deploys technical specialists to help communities, partners, and nations prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural hazards and conflict.
RedR Australia maintains a roster of more than 750 technical experts across a range of skill profiles including Information management, protection, humanitarian coordination, public and clinical health, logistics, WASH, and disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management.
Enjoy attractive benefits, a competitive salary package, and investment in your professional development. This is a highly visible and critical role with RedR.
Reporting to the Director of Operations, this key role manages the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) component of Australia Assists, the Australian Government’s humanitarian civilian deployment programme. You are directly responsible for the implementation of RedR Australia’s MEL and reporting capability.
Your team leadership role is integral in fostering a continuous improvement culture, ensuring high-quality evidence and learning is shared, utilised, and it informs activities across the organisation and the wider humanitarian sector.
You will liaise with external stakeholders, including DFAT, UN agencies, NGOs, INGOs, Government agencies, and corporate partners, often representing RedR Australia at the highest levels within these partner agencies, to deliver on MEL activities.
Other key responsibilities include:
You are qualified in a relevant discipline and are currently leading, managing, and delivering the MEL function for an international humanitarian or development organisation, an international NGO, or a programme with significant MEL-related responsibilities.
You have high-level and strategic experience leading programme evaluations or reviews in a range of humanitarian, emergency management, or international development settings.
You have a demonstrated understanding of contemporary qualitative and quantitative MEL methodologies and you engage sensitively with people from different cultural groups, as well as diplomatically with international partners and foreign governments to achieve programme objectives.
Additionally, you offer:
If you would like to leverage your strategic MEL leadership expertise to deliver the Australia Assists programme and other international humanitarian initiatives, please apply by addressing the key skills and experience required, submitting your cover letter and resume quoting reference # 840128, or call Lois Freeke in confidence on: +61 (0) 2 8243 0570.
Please note there is no formal closing date for this role, if you are interested we would encourage you to apply as soon as possible.