Innovation Manager & Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) - vacancy in UK

Job title:Innovation Manager & Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)
Project Start Date:Autumn 2013 Duration:5 years
 Application Deadline:31st May 2013
Location: London with travel to Asia, Africa and the Middle East
About the Programme
Investing significantly in scaling up its programme work in tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) CHASE and DFID's Research and Evidence Division (RED) have designed a joint five year, £18m Research and Innovation Fund (2013-2018) to address critical evidence gaps and improve the effectiveness of interventions to address VAWG (in stable and fragile contexts).

This fund will consist of two components: i) innovation grants; and ii) operational research and impact evaluations.

Under innovation grants, we will look to manage a set of between 10 - 14 grants to be given to organisations to implement innovative programmes or pilots to prevent VAWG that address a number of research questions.

Under the Operation Research and Impact Evaluations Sub-component we will develop an overarching research framework to guide the operational research and impact evaluation of existing and new prevention of VAWG programmes. This will include i) a selection of programmes funded independently, such as current DFID country programmes or programmes implemented by other donors, NGOs or national governments, as well as ii) a sample of the innovation programmes funded by the granting mechanism outlined in sub-component 1.

DAI is currently bidding for this opportunity and seeking an experienced, full time, London (UK) based Research, Learning & M&E Manager

Duties and Responsibilities

    Proven track record of translating research data and findings into policy and programme relevant analysis and recommendations
    Ability to develop conceptual frameworks for programme evaluation through the creation of logic models and definition of outcome measures
    Proven expertise in data collection, data modelling, statistical analysis, survey planning, and a range of evaluation methods
    Demonstrated ability to design and conduct studies of program effectiveness, using a range of methodologies
    Experience developing M&E frameworks
    Experience of DFID Programming preferable
    At least 7 years of M&E expertise

Requirements & Skills:

•     Manage relationships between research partners and Operational research programmes
•     Overall responsibility for the Fund's Research and Learning Strategy, ensuring applied and practical research to build evidence and test hypotheses
•     Manage objective research, analysis and evaluation through implementation of sophisticated analytical tools and utilising mixed methods approaches, integrating rigorous qualitative as well as quantitative methods
•     Conduct research to show and understand how and why certain interventions work and including how, why and when and will make a considerable and unique contribution to learning in the field
•     Develop and implement a comprehensive results based M&E system and strategy for the Fund, including the regular development of a framework document, outlining the approach of the programme to gathering, compiling and analysing data that responds to the project's indicators.
•     Ensure the integration of research evidence into the fund's ongoing strategy

Tel: +44 (0) 207 420 8600
Fax: +44 (0) 207 420 8601
how to apply: visit; http://unjobs.org/vacancies/1368390628462