About the Organization:
Fairtrade Labelling Organizations (FLO) International is the global umbrella organization for Fairtrade and unites the producer-, market- and business-facing activities within the Fairtrade Labelling system. FLO International develops the Fairtrade standards; promotes the empowerment of Fairtrade-certified producers by supporting them in gaining and maintaining Fairtrade Certification and capitalizing on market opportunities; and facilitates global Fairtrade markets, to optimize benefits for producers.
About the Job:
FLO is looking a Monitoring Manager, s/he will be responsible for leading the management and strategic improvement of the Fairtrade producer monitoring system.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
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Manage and develop monitoring system:
- Manage the implementation of the Fairtrade monitoring strategy;
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In strong collaboration with the certifying entity of the Fairtrade system (in the following FLO-CERT), the business data analysis team, the producer service and relations unit as well as other key stakeholders in the system:
- Develop and foster a constant improvement process to enhance monitoring data quality, timeliness, and comprehensiveness;
- Design and implement approaches for producer self-reporting of performance data;
- Create the potential of other sources of data (for example, flow of goods data) to contribute to the monitoring analysis;
- Work collaboratively and supportively to achieve shared objectives with evaluation team members.
- Contributes technical expertise and management capacity to the development of new approaches to farm-level data collection;
- Represent the Fairtrade monitoring system and results in external and internal meetings, workshops, and conferences as required.
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Data analysis and reporting:
- Lead annual monitoring data analysis and publishing cycle in collaboration with the business data analysis team and FLO-CERT;
- Manage ongoing improvements to the analysis and reporting of monitoring data, reflected in the published annual monitoring report;
- Work with the communications team, bring a creative approach to the development of new communications and reporting approaches for monitoring data, in particular enhancing visual communication;
- Ensure timely response to system-wide stakeholder data queries;
- Manages research and analytical partnerships as required. Oversee external contractors carrying out monitoring-related deliverables to time and budget.
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Knowledge management:
- Lead and participates in system-wide processes to ensure greater efficiency, harmonization, and relevance of producer data collection throughout the Fairtrade system;
- Provide a timely and responsive service to system-wide and external queries about monitoring data, including generating bespoke analysis as required;
- Build system-wide capacity to understand and use monitoring data in appropriate ways to generate individual and credible reports.
Qualifications:
- Educated to masters level in a relevant numerate discipline such as economics or agricultural development. Specific training in statistics and in monitoring and evaluation an advantage;
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At least 3 to 5 years of proven experience with:
- Development of monitoring systems or in large scale research and data collection projects;
- Implementation of monitoring systems within the context of a development or humanitarian organization;
- Management of large-scale research and data collection processes, ideally within an agricultural development context;
- Analysis of large data sets and applying suitable models of evaluation.
- Expert knowledge of research methodologies and their practical application, particularly the generation of quantitative data, the development of indicators, sampling techniques, etc.;
- Knowledge of data protection regulations and monitoring principles;
- Understanding of agricultural development;
- Good knowledge of the Fairtrade context and of stakeholder data needs;
- Excellent analytical skills. Advanced computer skills, particularly the use of databases (Access), spreadsheets (Excel), and other analytical or visualization tools. Advanced project management skills;
- Understanding of monitoring, evaluation, and learning approaches within a development context;
- Ability to convey complex information in user-friendly and creative ways as well as strong presentation skills;
- Fluency in English, good Spanish, and the ability to read French and Portuguese;
- Experience using SPSS or other statistical analytical tools.
Closing Date: 31 Aug 2012
How to Apply:
Interested candidates can send their resume and cover letter to
applications@fairtrade.net
Please mention "Monitoring Manager" in the subject line.
