Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Adviser (48/24 NR)

Job Description

Roles And Responsibilities

Programme monitoring, evaluation and learning:

Supporting, advising and leading teams to generate high-quality programme monitoring and evaluation, including logframes or results frameworks, theories of change and independent evaluations.
Identifying and championing opportunities for evaluation, particularly for new programmes, and ensuring they meet expected standards under the FCDO Evaluation Policy.
Providing timely quality assurance and advice for annual reviews, project completion reviews, concept notes and business cases, ensuring a consistent approach to project scoring underpinned by sufficient evidence, and adherence to guidance and transparency requirements.
Provide oversight of programme visits, leading processes around beneficiary feedback, data quality assurance and risk updates.
Build capability and provide training to programme teams on monitoring, evaluation and results, based on assessment of demand.
Facilitating learning discussions around key programme issues, especially where related to results.
Liaise with donors, partners and government on monitoring, evaluation or results issues.

Portfolio Monitoring, Evaluation And Learning

Support, commissioning and oversight for results commissions from HQ.
Development and improvement of the START Kenya Compliance Dashboard, which provides senior leadership with oversight of the programme portfolio.
Advising and supporting on tracking progress against the Business Country Plan and strategic partnership, as required.
Building and quality assuring evidence, e.g. conducting analysis of key datasets in Kenya, maintaining key statistics, supporting inputs into briefings, audits, and requests for information on results.
Conducting or supporting contextual and diagnostic analysis of priority development issues.
Providing backstopping, support and mutual learning with the Somalia MEL Adviser.

Programme Leadership

Working towards becoming the Programme Responsible Owner of the Portfolio Monitoring Evaluation and Learning programme, leading design and implementation.
Leading on the commercial process for awarding, setting up and managing the contract.
Managing the partner, finance and risk oversight, and ensure compliance with PROF Rules.
Supporting the programme manager to carry out tasks in a timely and quality manner.
Acting as a liaison point between the BHC teams and the implementing partner.
Generating demand and ownership and use for the evidence products, amongst internal and external stakeholders.

FCDO statistics and evaluation community

Actively engaging in cross-FCDO statistics and evaluation cadres and knowledge sharing activities, including regular attendance at cadre meetings and discussion groups.
Proactively contribute 10% to the development of the statistics/evaluation cadres.

Active member of the Strategy, Assurance and Results team

Be an active member of a small team, leaning into to support others and cover or lead workstreams as required.
Possibility of line management for 1-2 staff members, including recruitment, performance management, task management and pastoral support.

Contribute to a corporate role in the BHC office

Resources Managed

This post will act as Programme Responsible Owner for the £3.8m Programme Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Programme.
Line management of EO Results and Reporting Officer, and potentially one other position.