This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) objectives in Ethiopia including the New Approach to Africa, and DFID Ethiopia's (DFID-E) new Business Plan. You will help to set strategic direction and drive performance and innovation in the UK's largest bilateral development programme in Africa. You will lead DFID Ethiopia’s strategy for results, evaluation and evidence, working closely with the Head of Office (HoO), Deputy Head of Office (DHoO) and Senior Management Team and HMG colleagues in Addis.
DFID Ethiopia’s portfolio covers some of the major challenges of our time including migration, climate change, economic growth and good governance. Your role will be to define DFID Ethiopia’s approach to evidence, evaluation and results in these critical areas, and to build M&E capability across the office. In addition, you will work closely with other HMG partners, the Ethiopian Government, donors and delivery partners.
The role will be based in DFID Ethiopia’s Operational Excellence (OpEx) Team, leading the programme delivery and results side of the team. OpEx provides support across the office on programme delivery, corporate priorities commercial work, finances, business support and communications.
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This role requires both strong technical skills to take forward an evaluation, evidence and results strategy for DFID Ethiopia, and also leadership and management skills to drive the approach across the office. You will have experience of representing DFID/HMG in external discussions and of building capability in evaluation and results in other contexts. You will need to be able to understand the bigger picture, understanding the political issues and HMG priorities in Ethiopia, seeing links across DFID-E's portfolio and with the wider Department. You will be a creative, well-networked, assured and influential self-starter, with an ability to conceptualise, form, challenge and lead debates on policy and practice and develop evidence products, with excellent writing and interpretive skills.
SUCCESS PROFILES - CIVIL SERVICE BEHAVIOURS
Success Profiles are the new recruitment framework used within the Civil Service.
Candidates should be able to clearly demonstrate in their application examples of the following behaviours:
Applicants will be assessed on their behaviours against the level/band or grade comparison indicated in the Civil Service Behaviours Framework (page 5.) for example:
LEVEL / BAND | Civil Service | DFID EQUIVALENT |
Level 3 | SEO | A2L |
Level 4 | Grade7 | A2 |
Details of the above HM Government Success Profiles (Civil Service Behaviours) are
available by clicking this link.
ADDITIONAL NOTES AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES REQUIRED
This post is available to both Statistics and Evaluation Advisers, ideally you will have a background in both.
Applicants should submit a technical competency assessment against the three Government Statistical Service competencies and DFID Evaluation competencies below:
Technical Competences - top 5 civil service competencies | In this job, this means… |
Acquiring data and understanding customer needs | Working with policy colleagues to understand their needs and identifying/ promoting use of appropriate data sources. |
Data analysis | Having strong analytical knowledge and the skills to carry forward descriptive and common statistical analyses of widely used data sets such as the Demographic and Health Survey, knowing the limitations of this work and promoting use and re-use across the department |
Best Practice in Evaluation Approaches and Methods | Advising on the most appropriate methodology to answer specific research questions. Awareness of limitations of specific data collection and evaluation techniques. Know who to approach for support in specific evidence topic areas. |
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