We're all about promoting entrepreneurship in many African countries.

Crosswise Works consolidated its successful approach to creating jobs, combining a number of elements, such as: employability training for young people on the job market, designing incubators for startups, using crowdfunding for start-up capital, setting-up accelerators for the most successful startups, include coaching for entrepreneurs, network support for local hubs of entrepreneurs and strengthening an entrepreneurial climate. All very closely designed and/ or co-facilitated with our local partners (experts!) such as hubs, universities, NGOs, technical consultants and corporates.

We have recently won an eight year multi-country programme called We Can Work that supports young women and men with disabilities in urban and rural areas across Africa to become economic actors by setting up their own businesses. 

Operating as a social enterprise with an office next to Bijlmer Station in Amsterdam, we deliver our work through short term projects/consultancies yet also as partner in larger multi-annual programs.  

Our organization structure is flat and dynamic, operating on principles of self-organization, also called Holacracy. Our internal operation drives on people with clearly assigned roles that provide high degrees of professional autonomy and promotes mutual professional trust.

As a team we cherish solid proven methods, and based on continuous learning, we drive further improvements. In all that we do, our local partnerships are very important to us. We never work alone. Because we listen and get engaged, we thrive in co-creating new approaches and tweaking existing ones, whilst bringing in innovative elements.

We are looking for a new colleague who can strengthen monitoring and evaluation in our programs by being involved in the design and implementation from start to finish. You will be instrumental in learning, guiding and steering the program’s outputs and outcomes, together with our partners. You will support them in speaking the same M&E language and have them include it as part of their project management.

Part of you work will be in our newly won We Can Work program that aims to support more than 100.000 young women and men with a disability in urban and rural areas to become strong economic actors by setting up their own businesses. The program is implemented in seven African countries for the coming eight years. We'll work with Entrepreneurship Support Organisations to make this work.

• Someone who has a deep interest in qualitative monitoring and evaluation.
• Someone who is able to speak the partner's language and facilitate learning.
• Someone with a talent to oversee, facilitate and inspire people to take the next step.
• Someone with the ability and enthusiasm to work in multi-stakeholder partnerships.

When we think of our perfect candidate, we think of a: learning facilitator, using an holistic approach to reaching impact, with strong analytical skills, able to work across culture and a fan of qualitative learning and improving program outcomes.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

• Coordinate monitoring, learning and evaluation within the We Can Work program and other projects to ensure a high quality of MEL interventions, a strong Theory of Change, indicator framework and a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning plan
• Experience with development of ToC, making sure the overall ToC is aligned but tailored to context in each country, ensuring that monitoring and evaluation information leads to learning around and validation of ToC assumptions
• Ensure good quality data is collected, actively used and published, promote the use of new technology and safeguard ethical standards / considerations within data collection
• Collaborate with, support and / or coach ESO partners to support in creating a learning culture. This involves the design and implementation of a learning strategy, share the same MEL language and build local MEL expertise.
• Lead organisational trajectories, ensuring continuous learning and improvement in line with the program outcomes and Crosswise Works strategic direction to ensure we work towards impact

We offer an exciting and challenging position. We start with a temporary contract of 7 months, for 32-36 hours a week, and have the intention to prolong the contract if we achieve great results and are a good match.

And we offer:

• An opportunity to be part of a diverse and experienced team consisting of about 6 people.
• An inspiring work space near Bijlmer Station in Amsterdam, with good coffee, team lunch and the opportunity to work some time from home.
• A fair salary of €4100 gross for 40 hours (we offer 8% holiday fees and a 10% pension contribution).

Some personal details

We hope this wasn't too hard and we'll make sure to follow up ASAP.

Speak soon,

Bas, Eva, Magdalis, Diwy, Malou, Lucia, Jip

info@crosswiseworks.nl