Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Officer to Civil Rights Defenders

Do you have experience of strategic planning and project design and a passion for human rights? Do you want to work in an international environment with colleagues all over the world? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
As Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) Officer your responsibilities will be to develop and ensure efficient, effective, uniformed and globally aligned working processes and procedures for planning, monitoring and evaluation of Civil Rights Defenders programming.

You will work in close collaboration with geographic and thematic Departments and function as a learning hub for all Departments on issues related to planning, monitoring and evaluation. The PME Officer will also work in close concert with Civil Rights Defenders thematic advisors.

For guidance in this new and exciting role, you will have Civil Rights Defenders' Vision and Mission and our Management System (CRD-W). The PME Officer reports to the Global Programme Director

Your key activities will be:

- Programme Performance Monitoring such as monitor follow-up actions based on management decisions
- Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation, for example ensure that the HQ Departments and partners use a uniform, well-prioritised and realistic plan of monitoring and evaluation activities
- Programme Performance Planning such as develop and maintain PME systems for project and core granting procedures
- Evaluation, including to establish a process for documenting and tracking PME processes, outcomes, evaluations and learnings
- M&E Capacity Building, for example contribute to partner collaboration of monitoring capacity building, and corresponding activities for implementation in the context of the IMEP or joint UN monitoring plan
- Communication and Partnerships, including to partner with Department Directors to ensure that current and accurate data and results are included in reports, analysis, and relevant internal communication
- Key end results


About you
As a person, you are solutions driven and you tackle challenges with enthusiasm and flexibility to fulfil our mission and vision.

You have the ability to analyse numerical data and other sources of information, to break them into component parts, patterns and relationships and you apply your expertise and knowledge to achieve best results possible in any given situation.

It’s easy for you to build wide and effective networks both within and outside the organisation and you relate well to people at all levels. You express opinions, information and key points in a well-structured and logical way.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this role you have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences or an equivalent education
- At least 3 years of relevant experience in strategic planning, or project design, monitoring and evaluation
- Experience with results-based management
- Solid understanding of and experience in knowledge management for the purpose or learning
- At least 3 years of relevant professional work experience, especially in project monitoring and evaluation, statistics and data management
- Good understanding of development cooperation in general and Sweden’s support to civil society in particular
- Good knowledge in rights-based approach to development, as well as gender, environment and conflict sensitivity
- Good understanding of the principles of aid and development effectiveness
- Basic skills in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word)


Experience in working in different geographic contexts is highly preferable as well as knowledge in international standards on human rights, in gender and development, environment and conflict.

About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment, starting in February 2021 or according to an agreement. As an organisation, we strive for diversity and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm.

Please apply as soon as possible as we recruit on an ongoing basis.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Gabrielle Gunneberg: gabrielle.gunneberg@crd.org.

Local union representative: lia.hen@crd.org. (Unionen)

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 200 organisations in 30 countries on four continents. Through advocacy, legal processes, and public campaigns, we advance people’s rights globally. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

At our headquarters, located on Södermalm in Stockholm, we are about 50 employees working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org).