Senior Fcas Consultant

We are recruiting for a Senior Consultant to join Itad’s Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings (FCAS) practice. We are a dynamic and growing team committed to improving the lives of people living in some of the harshest conditions in the world. The consultant will be responsible for leading and contributing to a number of complex and exciting monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) projects, and for pursuing new opportunities to support the continued growth of the portfolio.

**About Itad**

Itad is a consultancy that specialises in generating high-quality evidence and insights to improve impact. For nearly 40 years, our strategy, monitoring, evaluation and learning services have supported our clients and partners to make informed decisions to tackle global challenges and improve lives. We work with governments, international organisations and foundations across the globe, including a wide range of UK Government departments.

We bring a deep understanding of what works, how, and for whom across a range of important issues from global health security to climate resilience and serious and organised crime. Our approach to generating evidence and supporting learning is grounded in an understanding of context and the diverse perspectives and needs of decision-makers. We pride ourselves on being at the forefront of innovative approaches to measuring impact, whilst ensuring they balance rigour with pragmatism and accessibility.

Our knowledge and expertise are grouped around Practice areas including Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings (FCAS), Human Development, Inclusive Growth, Social Protection, Climate Change and Livelihoods, and Governance and Institutional Strengthening.

We are a values-based organisation. Our values include making a difference, delivering technical excellence and innovation, contributing through collaboration and learning, providing opportunities for personal development to our staff, promoting inclusion and diversity, taking action to improve our impact the environment and shared rewards for the people we work with.

**The Team**

By joining our FCAS team, you will be working alongside a dynamic group of 15 people who are driven by a commitment to improve the lives of people living in some of the harshest conditions in the world. The challenges of working in FCAS contexts means that we need to be innovative and creative, and our FCAS Team is recognised as a global leader in providing monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) advice and services to a diverse range of clients working in conflict and crisis contexts across the world. Our expertise encompasses a broad range of thematic areas including conflict prevention; peacebuilding; security and justice; stabilisation; serious and organised crime; women, peace and security; preventing violent extremism; migration; and humanitarian assistance. We work globally with a particular focus on East and West Africa, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), South Asia and the Indo-Pacific.

Our portfolio continues to grow and we are currently providing MEL support to the UK Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) across Africa, MENA, South Asia and the Indo-Pacific, and UK Overseas Territories; to the UK FCDO on its global support to mine action; to the UK Home Office on its global support to tackling serious and organised crime; and to USAID on its regional preventing violent extremism programming across West Africa. We are also conducting a number of evaluations of humanitarian assistance and support to refugees and internally displaced people for UNHCR, UNICEF and Hilton Foundation.

**The Role**

We are recruiting for a Senior Consultant to join the team to work on projects across the whole portfolio.

As a Senior Consultant, you will be responsible for providing substantive technical inputs on a number of MEL projects in the portfolio; manging complex FCAS MEL contracts for a variety of clients; contributing to business development activities and bid writing; sharing learning through knowledge products and external conferences and events; and being a part of maintaining our excellent reputation with our clients.

The core technical strengths of all our consultants are focused around four key areas:

- Evidence Advocate: generating robust evidence and using this to support clients and shape global debates;
- Change Agent: supporting clients in reflecting, learning and managing change;
- Project Manager: contributing to and building high-performing project teams that deliver quality and commercial targets;
- Trusted Advisor: building long term relationships with clients and partners that add value and deliver commercial success.

You will have a proven track record in managing and technically delivering MEL projects in FCAS contexts, and experience in at least one of the following: conflict prevention; peacebuilding; security and justice; stabilisation; serious and organised crime; women, peace and security; preventing violent extremism;