£32,894 gross pa, plus other benefits
Permanent post, full time (35 hours per week)
Based in Brixton, London
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager will play a crucial role in maintaining and ensuring high quality monitoring and evaluation work across all our programmes. S/he will provide support to country offices and policy and advocacy staff in ensuring that we and our partners can meaningfully demonstrate impact and enable us to reflect on our successes and lessons learnt.
The post holder will also play a key role in supporting Progressio’s ongoing relationship with the Department for International Development (DFID). This includes a strategic partnership through DFID’s Programme Partnership Arrangement (PPA). A significant part of the role will be to monitor and report on the PPA, as well as to coordinate Progressio’s participation in various learning groups and steering committees. S/he will support the successful delivery of PPA external evaluations and will also have line management responsibilities for the Learning Officer.
The successful candidate should be educated to degree level in a relevant field or have equivalent experience.
Demonstrable hands-on experience of programme and project planning, implementation, and participatory monitoring and evaluation in the international development field; of developing and using information systems for programme management and organisational learning, including developing mechanisms, forums and processes for facilitating the sharing of lessons and experiences between teams; of developing monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) organisational frameworks and leading on MEL systems development is essential. You should also have previous experience in line management and working with people at a distance.
You should have demonstrable skills in the participatory monitoring and evaluation of development projects (both quantitative and qualitative); training skills, including facilitation, mentoring and coaching; a good knowledge of current development thinking; a sound grasp of gender analysis and dynamics, and an understanding of the role of capacity building and advocacy in bringing about social transformation. Strong analytical and research skills, including the ability to process large amounts of information, distribute it appropriately and extract critical analysis from it; effective interpersonal and influencing skills, including the ability to build relationships, network, communicate and inspire internal and external audiences and represent Progressio at a senior level are essential. You should also be an effective team player, with the ability to work with a wide range of people; have strong initiative and self-motivation; the ability to organise and manage own priorities effectively and work to tight deadlines, and effective written and verbal communication skills in English, especially in a cross-cultural environment.
