The GIZ Jordan Project " Civil Peace Service” is seeking to hire a “Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor” for full-time based employment.

The Civil Peace Service (CPS) is a programme for violence prevention, civil conflict transformation, and peacebuilding. In cooperation with civil society partners, CPS Jordan works to strengthen social cohesion, foster trust, and promote inclusive participation, with a strong focus on dialogue and creative methods. CPS Jordan operates in close partnership with local organisations, including in remote and marginalised areas across the country.

The PME Advisor (Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation) ensures methodological quality and strategic coherence across all CPS levels, promoting a context-sensitive, aligned, and impact-oriented multi-level approach.

Qualifications

• University degree in Social, Political, or Cultural Sciences, or a comparable professional qualification, preferably with a focus on Peace and Conflict Studies      
• Minimum of 5 years’ professional experience in monitoring and evaluation, preferably in the fields of civil conflict resolution and peacebuilding
• Strong analytical and writing skills, with the ability to translate community-level insights into clear, results-oriented documentation; prior experience working with community-based organisations required.
• Expertise in conflict-sensitive and participatory approaches, with experience in training, facilitation, and adult learning.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong self-organisation, strategic thinking and intercultural competence
• Driving license and willingness to undertake frequent business trips in Jordan
• Proficiency in Excel and familiarity with data tools (e.g., KoboToolbox, Power BI, or SPSS) is an asset.

Main Responsibilities

• Advise the CPS programme coordination, team, and partner organisations on strengthening an impact-oriented planning, monitoring, and evaluation (PME) system at programme and project level, including the development of qualitative indicators, monitoring tools, and participatory reflection processes.
• Facilitate participatory monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes with partner organisations, including advising partner planning workshops on integrating CPS approaches, theories of change, and methodologies into activity planning and implementation.
• Analyse monitoring data and qualitative findings and translate them into actionable recommendations to support programme learning, quality improvement, adaptive management, and evidence-based strategic decision-making.
• Systematise monitoring results and document good practices, lessons learned, and change stories, contributing to programme-wide knowledge management and organisational learning processes.
• Provide substantive, evidence-based input to programme reports and briefings for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Engagement Global, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Contribute to programme and project proposal development, portfolio planning, and country-level strategic processes, ensuring alignment with CPS objectives, partner needs, and contextual developments.
• Support CPS staff and partners in applying participatory monitoring and reflection tools during implementation, including regular partner engagement and field visits across programme locations.

The brief profile is not intended to provide a full and complete description.

Where appropriate and reasonable, the position holder is willing to perform tasks outside the scope of the job description.

Emanating from GIZ’s role in enhancing and promoting the efficiency and competency of its political partners and entities and their respective employees, and in view of GIZ’s aim at maintaining and encouraging the stability of employment at its political partners and entities, this position will not be available to any official employee currently working at any of GIZ’s political partners, governmental ministry, department or entity, including any official employees who are on unpaid leave.

GIZ is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as to race, gender or religion, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities. Remuneration will be in accordance with the candidate's qualifications, experience, as well as the scope of responsibility of the job announced and in line with local standards.

GIZ would like to increase the proportion of employees with disability. Applications from persons with disabilities are most welcome.

GIZ will send feedback only to the candidates that are shortlisted and interviewed.