Accountability & Learning Officer

Accountability & Learning Officer

London

Full-time, Permanent

Salary of circa £36,000 per annum

When humanitarian crises strike, our client stands poised to co-ordinate and deliver incredible responses around the world.

Learning and insight are essential to improving how they respond and they're now looking for an Accountability & Learning Officer to directly contribute to learning and growth for them.

They need someone with monitoring and evaluation experience and a strong understanding of humanitarian crises globally to play a vital role in our client's dedicated charity.

The Organisation

Our client is a unique membership organisation.

When large-scale catastrophes strike countries that lack the resources to respond, they bring members together to raise funds quickly and efficiently. In times of crisis, their mission is to save, protect, and rebuild lives through effective humanitarian action.

Working as one, they co-ordinate the UK public's response to overseas catastrophes. They raise the alarm with the UK public and make donating as easy as possible, with most funds raised within the first two weeks of an appeal.

At our client's organisation, accountability and learning are not just processes, they are a commitment to the people affected by catastrophes and will aid their growth and the development of their members. Your work will help ensure the funds they raise are used effectively and transparently, and that every appeal they launch is an opportunity to do better, together.

What You'll Do

This role enables our client and their members to effectively respond to humanitarian crises and provide timely, quality, community-focused assistance.

As an Accountability & Learning Officer, alongside your efforts to contribute to learning and growth, you will shape our client's work to influence key policy agendas. You'll be working across such areas as climate adaption, flexible funding for humanitarian action, and locally led humanitarian responses.

Overseeing monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning activities, you will support the set-up of projects, build relationships, and co-ordinate activities in all current operational theatres.

Specifically, your role will involve:

- Assessing humanitarian crises for appeal eligibility

- Maintaining and improving reporting templates

- Setting up and overseeing key learning activities over the appeal cycle

- Overseeing the Collective Initiatives and Shared Services portfolio

- Supporting a range of research and learning projects and reviews

- Helping members to achieve their climate and environment targets

- Leading the design and set up of regular learning events and workshops

- Acting as the key focal point for members' and partners' queries

- Acting as deputy for the Accountability & Learning Manager

What You'll Bring

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

- Experience with monitoring, evaluation, and research design and/or implementation

- Experience in the international humanitarian/development/charity sector for an NGO, UN Agency or similar

- A strong understanding of humanitarian crises globally

- Detailed knowledge of humanitarian principles, programming, and how the sector operates

- A good understanding of Monitoring & Evaluation frameworks and methodologies used to monitor programmes and measure outcomes

- An understanding of and interest in key policy areas within the humanitarian system

- The ability to thoroughly check and clean large datasets and analyse quantitative and qualitative data

- A degree-level qualification (ideally a post-graduate level qualification) in a relevant discipline

How Our Client Will Support You

- Flexible working hours (outside of an appeal)

- 25 days' annual leave, rising with length of service (3 years: 27 days. 5 years: 30 days)

- 3% employers' pension contribution, rising to 8% post probation

- HealthCare Cash Plan, providing an array of health services ( £1,660 cash value, per year)

- Wellbeing support

- Discounted access to various health club providers (via Gympass)

- Discount schemes for various retailers and businesses

- Discounted tickets for events, via Tickets for Good

- Season ticket loan (post probation)

- Financial hardship loan (post probation)

- Cycle-to-work & Car scheme (post probation)

Apply Now

If you want to use your analytical mindset and collaborative spirit to support more effective humanitarian action, this could be the perfect role for you.

Apply today to join our client as an Accountability & Learning Officer and be part of a team making a tangible difference in times of crisis.

Other organisations may have titles such as Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Analyst, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, or Planning, Engagement and Evaluation Officer.

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