AIPJ Monitoring and Learning Manager

Job Reference Number: EMR/AIPJ/MLC

Job Type: International Development Assistance/Emerging Markets

Schedule: Full Time

Job Location: Indonesia; Jakarta

Job Summary

General:

1. The Monitoring and Learning Manager will carry out all duties for AIPJ in a manner which is fully consistent with the AusAID Monitoring and Evaluation Standards and will understand M&L to be essentially the same as M&E as described in the Standards
2. The AIPJ Monitoring and Learning Manager will establish and maintain harmonious and effective relationships with all colleagues and partners and undertake his or her duties to a high professional standard. 
3. The AIPJ M&L Manager will represent the best interests of AusAID, Cardno, and AIPJ in all matters when dealing with counterparts, team members and beneficiaries. 
4. In addition to working with all AIPJ staff and advisors, the AIPJ Monitoring and Learning Manager will work with, and be guided by, the Senior Monitoring and Learning Advisor primarily, and also by the Senior Gender Advisor, and the Team Leader. 
5. The Monitoring and Learning Manager will prepare reports and document progress towards achieving End of Program Outcomes (EOPOs) including making presentations to Indonesian agencies and other agencies on matters related to M&L.

Specific Background:

The fundamental purpose of Australian aid is to help people overcome poverty.  Poverty is not just economic incapacity, but also the denial of basic rights and the unequal ability to live with dignity.  Empowering the poor in realising fundamental rights can become a means of reducing and overcoming poverty.  

Australia’s aid program is guided by five strategic goals, one of which is effective governance. This includes delivering better services and enhancing justice and human rights for poor and marginalised people.  Effective governance places individuals at the centre, and therefore provides a voice for the marginalised, instils real transparency and protects rights. 
The Australia Indonesia Partnership for Justice (AIPJ) focuses on realising the rights of Indonesians, in particular poor women and people with disabilities.  AIPJ approaches realising rights by working in partnership with key government institutions (the supply side) as well as civil society and local communities (the demand side).  Building on successes of previous Australian law and justice programs, AIPJ focuses on the following rights: 

• Legal identity (birth, marriage and divorce certificates) as one precondition to realising basic economic and social rights, such as education and health care. 
• The right to fair proceedings which are:
• Independent, impartial
• Fast, consistent, affordable, accessible.
• The right to (legal) information.

Having a clear legal identity, such as a birth certificate, marriage certificate, or a divorce certificate, is an important precondition to realising basic economic and social rights. Without such an identity, Indonesians, in particular women and children, may be denied basic rights and therefore the equal ability to live with dignity.  Establishing legal identity contributes to realising the Millennium Development Goals, for example ensuring children can complete primary schooling.  It also assists the government to provide basic services on the basis of more comprehensive understanding of actual demographics. 

At the same time, a framework in which people are empowered to claim their rights and demand effective remedies is essential.  An independent and impartial judiciary, as well as proceedings that are fast, consistent, affordable and accessible, are key.  This includes working with government institutions to implement and deliver legal aid, and strengthening civil society organisations.

The right to (legal) information serves two purposes – it enables citizens to protect their rights, and it provides the basis for accountability.  This right also reinforces other AIPJ interventions, either by promoting awareness of how to access targeted services, or by promoting accountability for performance in relation to specific reforms.

In working to realise these rights, AIPJ focuses on both the national and sub-national levels, where central decision-making is taken, and where lessons from the field can inform this decision making.  Support is targeted at areas Indonesia has identified as being of critical importance to the sector, and for which assistance is likely to bring about sustainable and meaningful impacts. These priority areas are: Judicial dispute resolution mechanisms; the Prosecution Office; Anti-corruption; and Legal Aid.

AIPJ will also work with oversight commissions, recognising the role of commissions in strengthening accountability of the custodians of justice systems, and through that accountability, driving strengthened performance.
AIPJ will work to develop the capacity of civil society including disability focused organisations to support law and justice sector reform.  This entails both organisational capacity strengthening, as well as technical support in areas related to realising rights, the priority areas identified above and areas that emerge as the partners’ core mandate.   It is envisioned that the network of organisations supported through this component would assist AIPJ to learn more about Indonesia’s efforts to reform the justice sector, as well as carry out research, inquiry and learning that will support the development and testing of innovative new approaches to implementing reform going forward.  

AIPJ’s approach to realising rights will be supported through partnerships and promoting policy dialogue between Indonesian and Australian law and justice institutions. This is in recognition of the growing Australian whole-of-government interest in building partnerships with counterparts in Indonesia, and the fact that some of the most successful activities under previous Australian assistance to the sector involved peer-to-peer linkages. 

Through the Realising Rights framework, it is hoped that by the end of AIPJ, thousands more Indonesians have established legal identities, and are therefore able to access basic services, that the Australian government has made a notable contribution towards realising the right to fair proceedings, and that access to legal information is increasingly available to all Indonesians, including people with disabilities. Further details on the framework are available from AIPJ.  

​

Key Responsibilities

The M&L Manager is responsible for: 

• Overseeing finalisation, implementation and reporting against the AIPJ Monitoring and Learning Plan which follows AusAID Monitoring and Evaluation Standards (2013);
• Assisting with the design of AIPJ activities to ensure alignment with the Realising Rights strategy and measurability of progress towards EOPOs with particular attention to the needs, interests, and involvement of AIPJ’s priority target populations (women who are poor and people with disabilities);
• Designing and facilitating the implementation, or improvement, of monitoring and learning approaches within the organisational systems of AIPJ partners; and,
• Ensuring adequate measurement of progress towards EOPOs with particular emphasis on ensuring that the cross cutting themes of gender and disabilities are fully integrated. 

Key tasks of the Monitoring and Learning Manager are:

1. Monitoring and Learning Plan and Capacity Building:

• With the support of the Senior Monitoring and Learning Advisor, complete development of the M&L Plan including facilitating stakeholder participation in the M&E plan and any needed updating to the Evaluability Assessment, Baseline data and Annual workplans,
• Ensure that targeted, appropriate and high quality monitoring and learning components, as outlined in the M&L Plan, are embedded in all program activities.
• Lead M&L processes across the program to ensure learning is captured and used to drive activities by instituting regular training workshops for staff, associates and partners.
• Revise and update the M&L Plan as necessary as part of the annual planning process.
• Ensure that collection, collation and reporting on M&L (using both qualitative and quantitative measures) is gender and disability sensitive, and is done within the parameters established in the M&L Plan and also within the required timelines and consistent with AusAID M&E Standards.
• Advise activity and contract staff on inclusion of M&L Plan requirements in procurement of services, grant agreements and records of understanding (proposals and designs, work plans, and terms of reference etc.).
• Ensure staff, associates, sub-contractors and other implementing agency personnel are trained in relevant tools and templates and are using them correctly to meet contract requirements.
• Provide input into other program strategies including the capacity development strategy with partners and the gender strategy as well as the annual action plans.
• Oversee capacity assessments of partner organisations including their understanding and ownership of M&L.
• Together with the relevant activity coordinator, and with the guidance of the senior technical advisor, work with partner organisations to improve and / or build their M&L systems and capacity.
• Ensure feedback from M&L activities is used to establish next steps and activities.
• Ensure that lessons learned and stories which demonstrate impact on the ground from AIPJ are shared with Communications in a form which can be used to publicise AIPJ.

2. Gender Plan and Capacity Building

• With the support of the Senior Gender Advisor, ensure that all work programs are designed in a gender sensitive manner with gender mainstreamed, so that AIPJ achieves quality outputs and realises its EOPOs.
• Support AIPJ staff and partners to collect, analyse, and use gender disaggregated M&L information in a way that builds overall commitment to gender sensitive programming. This may be through a combination of specific gender focused M&L activities and a mainstreaming approach.
• Assist the Senior Gender Advisor with her efforts to mentor and transfer knowledge on gender to partners and staff through capacity building and other means.

3. Contribute to achieving cross-cutting principles including, in particular, people living with disabilities  

• Facilitate positive working relations with cross cutting principles and particularly with issues related to people living with disabilities and their inclusion in all programming.
• Support AusAID, the Team Leader and Deputy Team Leader to deepen partnerships.
• Facilitate development of useful M&L frameworks which support the partnership between GoA and Gol institutions.
• Ensure that M&L captures information to understand and assess the impact of activities
  on cross-cutting issues including those related to human rights and partnerships.
• Ensure M&L information is captured on access to justice by marginalised groups including, in particular, people living with disabilities.
• Work together with the AlPJ team to build knowledge, learn from experience and evidence, develop and improve on disability sensitive approaches, tools, and frameworks, and produce synergies between the various initiatives which make up AIPJ.
  ​

Other Requirements

Selection Criteria

• Degree in social sciences or a relevant field.
• At least 10 years experience in designing and implementing M&L frameworks and plans.
• Skills and experience in collecting, analysing and reporting on a range of qualitative and quantitative data using a variety of methodologies and sources.
• Experience and working knowledge of monitoring and evaluation systems used in the Indonesian law and justice sector including an understanding of their strengths and weaknesses.
• Excellent inter-personal skills with a demonstrated ability to work in partnership with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate results and analysis of data in a meaningful way to a range of audiences to enhance learning
• Demonstrated ability to train, or otherwise develop the capacity, of others in M&L.
• Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and English (written and spoken).
• Excellent organisational skills.

​

Employee Benefits

Funding

Australian AID

How to Apply for This Position

1. Response against each of the duties and desirable selection criteria.
2. Curriculum vitae/resume.
3. Name and contact details (phone and email) of three referees.

Applications that do not address all the requirements stated above will not be considered.

Submitting Applications

1. By email: email your application with the reference “AIPJ – Monitoring & Learning Manager Reform” in the subject line to recruitment.emergingmarkets@cardno.com; or
2. On-line application. Go to www.cardno.com/careers and search for this position. Click “Apply for this job” located at the end of the job description.

For further information about this position

Email recruitment.emergingmarkets@cardno.com with the reference “AIPJ – Monitoring & Learning Manager” in the subject line.

Closing Date

5.00pm, 23 May 2013.

Late applications will not be considered.