Programme advisor, Results

Does development work? Is it good value for money? How can we make it better? At Christian Aid, we believe these questions are central to improving our impact on poverty. And we need you to help us answer them.

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to contribute to Christian Aid’s impact on poverty, by improving our ability to understand, demonstrate, learn from and improve the performance of our international programme work.

You’ll be part of a global team of Performance Advisors, working with programme teams across Africa, Asia and Latin America to enhance their performance and impact. You’ll provide practical guidance and hands-on support to help programme staff put Christian Aid’s approach to programme cycle management into practice in their context. You’ll work with them to gather information from partners and poor women and men, to understand what this evidence tells them about progress and results and to use what they learn to strengthen their performance and cost effectiveness. Above all, you’ll support them to focus on impact for the people who matter most to us – women and men living in poverty.

You’ll enable programme teams to learn from their own experience, from other Christian Aid programmes and partners and from wider good practice. With the rest of the advisory team and other colleagues, you’ll feed programme learning into a deeper organisational understanding and public position, articulating and strengthening Christian Aid’s distinctive approach.

You’ll have the technical knowledge and practical experience of programme cycle management, monitoring and evaluation that you need to provide credible, relevant and useful support to fellow practitioners. In addition, you’ll bring excellent facilitation skills and experience of providing effective technical support and advice. You’ll have the intellectual firepower to cut through complex information and spot what really matters.

But most important will be your ability to build strong relationships and light a spark in your colleagues – to foster ownership of the performance challenge, and to help them reflect and learn, make sharper decisions and achieve better results.

Please show your suitability for this post by giving answers to the following questions. Using the guidance notes may help you formulate your answers.

Strive for improvement

Describe a situation where you enabled others to identify opportunities to achieve better results, and how you helped them to develop new approaches in response.

Deliver results

Describe a situation where you analysed a large volume of management or performance information to identify opportunities to achieve better results and how you used the results of your analysis to inform strategic decision making.

Communicate effectively

Describe a situation where you provided support or advice to non-specialist colleagues on programme cycle or performance management. How did you ensure that your audience could engage with, understand and make use of your technical input?

We value the contribution each person makes to the success of our organisation. That’s why you can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, a season ticket loan and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.

If based at an international location, you will require current and valid permission to work in the country.

Download the role profile (119 KB pdf)

To apply for this post, please download an application pack and email your completed International application form to: recruitment@christian-aid.org (quoting the reference number. Alternatively, your completed application form, together with the equal opportunities form, can be printed out and posted to us at:

Christian Aid 
35 Lower Marsh 
Waterloo 
London 
SE1 7RT

Please note that CVs will not be accepted.

Job reference: 587/MA/International

Closing date: 9am, Wednesday 2 October 2013

Interview date: Thursday 10 October 2013

Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.