Vacancies in our International Development Team

ADD international is seeking two outstanding individuals to take its programme quality to a new level. Following an internal review, these new posts, reporting direct to the International Director, will play a crucial role in working with our teams based in developing countries across Africa and Asia to support their effectiveness.

About ADD International

ADD International is a UK based NGO. Together, we promote the work of rights-based disability organisations run by disabled people in some of the poorest countries of Africa and Asia. Most of our staff is based in overseas programmes, supported by the UK office of ADD International.

Together, we’re bringing lasting social and policy change to promote disabled people’s rights and alleviate their social exclusion and poverty. However, whilst acting as a support to the disability movement, ADD is as a UK-based organisation, and therefore we cannot be part of the movement. ADD is continuously dealing with the subtleties of this position.

Vacancy 1: Learning and Accountability Advisor

The learning and accountability advisor will be the overall lead for ADD on how we understand the impact of our work and how we learn from what we do.

Comfortable with both facilitating learning at grassroots level, but also representing the organisation’s thinking to high level external audiences including governmental donors, the post-holder will need to:

• Have extensive experience of successfully designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems with national teams working with grassroots partners in developing countries, as well as demonstrating thought leadership in this area to other development actors.
• Be someone familiar with M&E tools but who regards them as a means, but not an end in themselves.

Vacancy 2: Programme Quality Advisor

The programme quality advisor will be skilled at building the capacity of national country teams in a wide range of areas.

A practitioner themselves they are likely to have run development programmes in at least 2 countries, will have worked with low-capacity grassroots partners working with highly marginalised groups. Skilled at truly coaching for performance the person will be at their best when accompanying others and will rarely, if ever, tell people what to do.

Both posts require extensive, unaccompanied travel.

DISABLED CANDIDATES ARE PARTICULARLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

Job descriptions can be downloaded here:

Learning and Accountability Advisor

Programme Quality Advisor


Application process

ADD International is keen to promote strong principles of equality and diversity and would welcome applications from all backgrounds from both women and men who have the appropriate skills. Disabled people are strongly encouraged to apply.

Applicants with the relevant experience can also apply for both positions. 

Interested applicant should send the following attachments by email (please include in the email subject 'Ref: ID job application'):

• CV (max 3 pages)
• Completed equal opportunities form
• A covering letter explaining why you're suitable for this job (max 2 pages)
• The names, contact numbers and addresses of 3 professional referees

Should you wish to apply for both roles, you only need to send us one covering letter stating why you are suitable for either/both roles.

Please email these documents to recruitment@add.org.uk by Monday 21st April 2014. 

Please note: Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Interview process

Only those we have shortlisted for interviews will be contacted as part of this process.

Interviews will take place in the UK (either in London or Frome) with a possible phone interview as part of the recruitment as follows:

Learning and Accountability Advisor

• Phone interview: Wednesday 7th May 2014
• Full interview: Tuesday 20th May 2014

Programme Quality Advisor

• Phone Interview: Tuesday 13th May 2014
• Full interview: Tuesday 27th May 2014