Programme Officer – Monitoring & Evaluation (Angola) - Christian Aid
£24,636 - £27,642 per annum + benefits
London, Waterloo
We’re working with our partners in Angola with the focus “Justice in the use of power”. Together we help communities and groups strengthen their livelihoods, adapt to climate change, reduce the suffering caused by HIV and improve human rights. Take responsibility for monitoring and evaluation, and you’ll be key in helping us achieve our aims.
About the role
Everyone from individuals, churches and businesses to Irish Aid, Comic Relief and others, donate funds to Christian Aid. With your help we can be sure we’re putting that money to the best use. Monitoring and evaluating all of our Angola Programme projects and processes, you’ll look at how we’re using our resources to identify areas of potential improvement. An enthusiastic team player, you will contribute towards the programme’s total quality ensuring you communicate effectively with partners and valuing their experience and knowledge. You’ll also take charge of administrative and finance systems making sure our processes meet with compliance standards. You will use this information to produce and update regular reports, budgets and other documents and create an informative bank of resources that we can use internally, as well as provide to external donors. You will also use your theoretical and practical expertise to help us learn from our partners’ realities and our day-to-day work to improve the programme. At the same time, it’s a huge learning opportunity for you.
About you
You’ll probably join us from an NGO, an association or research centre, a government agency or the UN and you might already be a Programme Officer, or alternatively a Compliance or Finance Officer interested in moving into a more general development role. But no matter what your background, you must have a proven interest in Monitoring and Evaluation, a good understanding of the difficulties faced in Angola, and the experience of supporting development programmes, preferably in Africa. Liaising effectively with colleagues and outside organisations, you’ll need to be confident in networking and your results-orientation skills and desire to learn will help you deliver excellent standards of administrative support, as well as act on your own initiative. And, as you will work daily with our partners in Angola and spend up to 30 days a year in Angola itself, you’ll need excellent written and spoken Portuguese as well as a flexible attitude towards travel.
About Christian Aid
More than half the world lives in poverty. We aim to put a stop to that. So we campaign against the inequalities that keep people poor and we work with local organisations to give people strength to find their own solutions to the problems they face, irrespective of their religion. If you’re as determined as we are to end poverty and injustice across the world, work with us to make change happen.
About the rewards
We value the input of everyone who works for us. That’s why you can expect a wide range of rewards including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan and the flexibility that helps you enjoy a good work/life balance. To find out more and apply, download an application pack at
Reference number: 008/EC
Closing date: 12 noon, Monday 10 May 2010
Interview date: 19 May 2010
This is a fixed term contract until December 2011