Introducing Integrity
Integrity is an ethical consultancy and service provider working in challenging and complex environments around the globe.
We help our clients succeed in fragile and challenging environments while building trust and understanding as the basis for transformative change. We work across all phases of the programme and project cycle, delivering eleven complementary services: monitoring, evaluation and learning / data and knowledge management / research, evidence and analysis / advisory / project management / communications / risk management / technical assistance / capability and capacity development / stakeholder engagement / grant and fund management. Our services are underpinned by the principles on which we were founded, a commitment to providing reliable information and evidence, and expert and high-quality delivery.
Headquartered in London and Washington DC, Integrity also has offices in Jordan, Kenya, and Pakistan. Our multi-national team of over 80 deliver multi-year projects, programmes and consulting assignments to a wide range of government clients, international organisations, foundations and private sector clients.
VISION: To set the international standard for ethically delivered expert services in complex and challenging contexts.
MISSION: We use evidence and learning to provide trusted advice and enable change for a sustainable future.
VALUES:
• Courage: We work on many of the world’s most complex problems. We stand against violence in all its forms. We are unafraid to stand up to illegal or unethical practices.
• Objectivity: We challenge conventional thinking. Our recommendations are not based on assumptions or ideology but evidence and learning.
• Diligence: We incorporate our best individual and collective intellect through rigour, reflection, and collaboration.
• Accountability: We take responsibility for the quality of our work and performance. We hold ourselves to account through clear policy and process, sustained by long-term profitability.
• Sensitivity: We understand the impact of our presence and our work, empathise with people’s situations, and commit to do no harm.
ETHICS: Integrity upholds the highest ethical standards in our work, our employment of staff and our interaction with people. Through adherence to our core values, we ensure the best possible service, and benefit the communities amongst whom we work.
We commit to building a diverse and inclusive organisation where all feel safe and able to progress, contribute and be heard, regardless of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, marital or parental status.
Further information about Integrity can be found at www.integrityglobal.com.
Scope of Work
FCDO-funded opportunity in Sudan, Sudan Independent Monitoring & Analysis Programme (SIMAP).
The Sudan Independent Monitoring & Analysis Programme will be a new, flagship programme supporting FCDO Sudan's policy and programme portfolio to improve its effectiveness through providing timely and objective information on delivery and contextual developments.
Integrity is bidding for this opportunity and we expect the tender to come out in September, and if successful the programme would begin in November/December 2023. The programme will contract an independent monitoring partner to deploy thematic and contextual experts to conduct in-person and/or remote monitoring and capacity building activities with three core objectives:
- Assurance & Capacity Building: Improving confidence in results and the quality of delivery, including supporting partners to improve practice/s through bespoke technical assistance.
- Learning & Innovation: Enabling greater portfolio experimentation by providing closer to real-time insight into progress on the ground, supporting faster course-correction and lesson learning.
- Strategy & Analysis: Providing needs-based analysis to inform portfolio and programme decision-making, and to monitor strategic priorities.
The anticipated programme budget is £7.5m over 5 years (roughly 2023-2028). FCDO Sudan’s programme portfolio in FY21/22 consisted of 6 programmes forecasted to spend c.£60m. Current programmes work in areas spanning humanitarian assistance, peacebuilding, governance and economic reform, water, sanitation & hygiene, and gender and social norm change. Whilst fluctuations in the number, focus and size of programmes are expected over the life of this programme, we expect to provide services to a portfolio of roughly the same size.
Potential services to be delivered under the programme objectives above could include:
- Activity verification (in real-time and/or retrospective).
- Expenditure verification, with potential to include modest-scale financial audits.
- Results verification.
- Policy compliance assessments to assess how e.g. safeguarding, risk management, or other policies are being implemented in practice.
- Beneficiary feedback on programme services or topics of interest e.g. inclusion.
- Monitoring & Evaluationcapacity assessments and technical assistance to implementing partners, e.g. to improve quality and accuracy of data collection.
- Contextual and/or thematic monitoring reports, on a recurring or needs basis.
- Action research.
The programme will complement FCDO Sudan’s own monitoring and programme oversight activities in Sudan. The programme is intended to improve FCDO Sudan’s monitoring capability and contribute to more effective decision-making through increasing the availability of close to real-time, objective data on delivery.
Consultants Profiles
We are looking for a strong team of independent experts to fill in a variety of roles with technical and thematic skills and experience across East Africa and Sudan.
We are looking for short-term technical and thematic experts in the following areas:
- Education
- Health (SRH, HSS)
- Economic development
- Conflict & peacebuilding
- Security & stabilisation
- Humanitarian assistance
- Social protection
- Livelihoods
- Food security
- Nutrition
- WaSH
- Climate change
- Governance
- Justice
- Human rights
- Civil Society
- Community mobilisation and engagement
- Advocacy
- Women & Girls Empowerment
- Sex and Gender Based Violence
- Gender, accountability & inclusion
- Risk mitigation
- Safeguarding /Protection
- Disability
- Policy development
- Data science
- VFM
Your Experience and Expertise
You will have:
- At least 7 years’ experience working within the international development, research and/or the consultancy sector, with a focus on any of the thematics areas aforementioned.
- Established expertise in third party monitoring, evaluations and reviews, capacity development, organisational learning, action research and/or policy-relevant research.
- Experience in Sudan and wider experience across East Africa and fragile and conflict affected states (FCAS).
- Experience working on FCDO-funded projects and programmes. Experience in primary and secondary qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis.
- The ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and clients, verbally and in writing.
- Excellent problem solving, organising and management skills.
- The ability to prioritise changing and competing demands and tasks, while consistently delivering quality work.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, collaborative and constructive approach to working with others, building effective relationships internally and externally.
It is desirable that you are:
- Also based in East Africa.
Languages
- Written and oral fluency in English, with the ability to write clear and compelling narrative.
- Fluent in Sudanese Arabic.
Core Competencies
You should also demonstrate the following core competencies:
Level 1: Team competencies
- Ethics
- Leadership
- Planning and Organising
- Development and Continual Learning
- Results Focus and Initiative
- Teamwork
- Customer Orientation
- Communication
- Managing Change
Level 2-4: Management competencies
- Analytical and Flexible Thinking
- Achievement Focus
- Managing Resources
- Teamwork and Team Leadership
- Customer Orientation
- Influencing
- Organisational Knowledge
- Organisational Alignment
- Strategic Thinking
- Accountability
- Developing Talent
How to apply
If you are interested in applying for this position, please complete the application form at www.integrityglobal.com/apply and attach a CV and Cover Letter, explaining why you are suitable for and want the role. Applications submitted without a cover letter will not be considered. Applicants are only required to submit their most recent CV.
The closing date for applications is 31st August 2023.However, we will review candidates on a rolling basis and the vacancy may be filled before this deadline. We encourage early applications. Please be advised that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
Integrity is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, marital or parental status. We will respect your confidentiality and abide by data protection laws.