Note: This position is contingent on anticipated funding.
Program Background:
This role supports the anticipated 5-year USAID People-to-People (P2P) Reconciliation Project in Somalia. The program aims to transform inter-communal conflict in Somalia’s conflict recovered areas of Middle and Lower Shabelle. Further, P2P seeks to create opportunities for communities in conflict to build mutual understanding, trust, empathy, and resilient social ties by addressing divisions that may be rooted in group differences such as ethnicity, religion, status, gender, class, or political affiliation. This P2P project embraces a Developmental Evaluation (DE) approach to adaptive, agile, and responsive programming able to nimbly shift according to successes, challenges, and changes in the conflict context. DE ensures evidence generated from the activity informs decision-making and program adaptation in real time, by using evaluative thinking and feedback in continuous programmatic adaptations. “The essential purpose of DE is to support the development of interventions that are innovative in engaging highly complex systems, or that are changing in response to changing conditions around them. In conducting a DE, Developmental Evaluators explicitly support the use of evaluation tools, empirical data, and critical thinking in frequent cycles, working in close collaboration with program actors in a process of adaptive learning. Evaluators facilitate a process of conceptualizing, designing, and testing interventions that are new or are adapting to major change”
Job Summary:
As Deputy Chief of Party (DCoP)- Developmental Evaluator (Key Personnel), you will provide strategic leadership in overall implementation design and approach for the anticipated P2P project. As the developmental evaluator you will be embedded into the program team to pr oactively lead analysis and advise on the changes and adaptations required. Your leadership, management and technical knowledge will ensure the delivery of high-quality programming and advance the position of CRS as a leading agency in the field of peacebuilding. As a senior leader within the project, you will provide the technical guidance and leadership to ensure that the project builds on scalable innovations and learning, and develops local capacity. Through your commitment to local capacity development and mentorship, you will oversee a handover/transition in year three of the project to transition the DE post to a local staff role and to yourself shift into a project technical advisor role.
Required Languages – Fluency in English with excellent English writing skills. Somali an advantage.
Travel – Must be willing and able to travel within Somalia.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong strategic, analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills, with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment and decisions; comfortable navigating large amounts of data, ability to zoom in and out, moving back and forth between details /specifics and the broader trends or patterns.
• Comfortable operating in uncertain situations, where the external environment is constantly changing. Ability to plan and operationalize the “plan, act, reflect loop” in technical interventions.
• Strong communication and relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally.
• Demonstrated experience and expertise as an evaluation team lead for complex development activities, preferably within a crisis or conflict context; as well as previous experience with evaluations utilizing both qualitative and quantitative evaluation design, concepts, and approaches.
• Familiarity with Developmental Evaluation, including skills such as:
• Respect for local stakeholders and partners
• Ethical research (maintains confidentiality and anonymity when required)
• Flexibility, enthusiasm, humility, willingness to learn on the go, and conflict resolution
• Facilitation skills, particularly in the design and execution of stakeholder consultations.
• Active listening, proactive learning, and time management skills.
• Knowledge of and experience with USAID.
• Highly flexible, positive attitude, comfortable with uncertainty.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Project staff

Basic Qualifications

• Masters degree in International Development, International Relations or a relevant technical area.
• 7 or more years’ relevant management and technical experience in countries similar to Somalia on peacebuilding, reconciliation, and conflict mitigation programs.
• 5 years experience managing donor funds, including multi country grants. Strong knowledge and experience in budget management.
• 5 years of staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment. Experience coaching senior program staff.

Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff)
These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.
· Integrity
· Continuous Improvement & Innovation
· Builds Relationships
· Develops Talent
· Strategic Mindset
· Accountability & Stewardship
*Our Catholic identity is at the heart of our mission and operations. Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. We welcome as a part of our staff people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need.
Note: All positions requiring residence or frequent travel outside their home country must undergo and clear a pre-employment medical examinat ion.
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*CRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer*

Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. Our Catholic identity is at the heart of our mission and operations. We welcome as a part of our staff and as partners people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need.