Impact & Accountability Lead

About CIVICUS

CIVICUS exists to defend people power. As a growing global alliance of over 15,000 members in 188 countries, we work together to monitor violations of basic civic freedoms, call out the perpetrators of violations and strengthen the power of people to organise by supporting a more accountable, effective and innovative civil society. We strive to promote excluded voices, especially from the Global South.

About the Role

The Impact & Accountability Lead role is responsible for designing and implementing cross-organisational strategy processes and systems to understand, learn and adapt to increase our collective impact. This includes responsibility for strategy development and review processes, implementation of strategy results and accountability frameworks, including the oversight of core planning and reporting requirements, and accountability for the delivery of the I&A team mandate.

The role drives the organisational agenda towards being an accountable organisation, at all levels, to all stakeholders. The role contributes to sector-wide learning and innovation around organisational strategy development and review, monitoring, evaluation, and impact. It also creates mechanisms for a collective understanding of the overall effectiveness and performance of CIVICUS against its strategy, thereby providing key insight and feedback, keeping the organisation on track, and ensuring that key milestones are achieved, and final outcomes are reached.

Key Requirements                                                     

• A minimum of 6 years work experience in M&E, impact assessment, organisational planning, and reporting and management experience
• Demonstrated commitment to civil society strengthening.
• Commitment to Civicus’s vision, mission, values, and ways of working.
• Proven experience in designing, implementing, and operating M&E Systems with proven data management and analysis skills.
• Applied familiarity with developmental evaluation initiatives, modelling, and utility
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially English report writing.
• Excellent interpersonal communication capabilities in multicultural environments; as well as conflict management skills. Creative problem-solving skills and resourcefulness in facilitating progress.
• Ability to interact with a vast range of end-users (i.e.: peers, colleagues, members, donors, partners), and to represent CIVICUS at a high level.
• Multi-stakeholder project delivery (at least 2 years).
• Experience in management of 1-2 subordinates (includes staff, interns, volunteers, and consultants).
• Applied budget development and monitoring as well as expense control experience;
• Confident self-starter, requiring minimal supervision with a sharp focus on goals, with a similarly sharp understanding of her/his learning needs.

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How to Apply

The closing deadline for applications is Close of Business on the 01 December 2023.

Interested candidates should complete the application form by clicking the following link: Impact & Accountability Lead- Application Form then email their application documents (CV & Cover letter) to jobs@civicus.org

Your application should comprise of

• A full CV, including educational and professional qualifications, a full employment history showing the more significant positions, responsibilities held, and relevant achievements
• A covering note of not more than 1 page outlining your motivation for applying for the role.

Short listed candidates will be contacted two weeks aftter the closing date to schedule interviews.