MEL Developer, Designer and Producer

Summary

Join Climate-KIC, a leading climate innovation initiative in Europe, as a Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Developer, Designer and Producer within the Climate Resilient Regions (CRR) Team. You will be responsible for developing and delivering MEL-related activities within an EU Mission Adaptation project environment, including designing and implementing MEL frameworks, facilitating workshops, gathering and analyzing data, and supporting the development of a systems innovation MEL approach. This role requires experience in developing and implementing MEL frameworks, particularly in the field of Regional Climate Adaptation, and strong analytical, communication, and facilitation skills. You will work closely with Project Leads and other delivery teams, contributing to cross-cutting taskforces and collaborative efforts within and beyond consortia.

Requirements

• To be successful in this role you must be able to build relationships, trust, and credibility with diverse groups of stakeholders
• Experience in having developed and implemented MEL frameworks and learning approaches, preferably in the field of Regional Climate Adaptation, within a European context
• Experience of developing and implementing MEL frameworks and approaches, including
• Interest in systems and complexity-sensitive MEL approaches, particularly
• Approaches to capturing and assessing hard-to-measure outcomes
• Strong analytical, systematising and communication skills and experience with
• Designing and developing MEL outputs – including both formal reporting as well as more creative formats – that meet user needs Excellent ability and experience in facilitating workshops with diverse groups of stakeholders in different stages of a project/portfolio cycle
• Experience writing funding applications and reports for funders particularly on MEL
• Aware and sympathetic to the EU Mission on Climate Adaptation and purpose of addressing climate change related risks
• Excellent team player, but also comfortable being lead facilitator for larger groups
• Problem solver, bringing creative solutions to complicated problems
• Confidence to encourage creativity in others
• Ability to develop effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Customer service ethos and commitment to continuous improvement
• Solutions focused, with a “can do” attitude
• Lives the Climate-KIC community values: Dynamic, Passionate, Engaging, Open, Inspiring, Excellent and Empowering

Responsibilities

• Overall, the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Developer, Designer and Producer will be expected to develop and deliver MEL related activities within an EU Mission Adaptation project environment
• This might entail providing leadership to work packages and/or specific tasks as well as contributing to cross-cutting taskforces and collaborative efforts within and beyond consortia
• Lead on the design and implementation of project specific MEL frameworks and learning plans, including Theory of Change, indicators, evaluations or learning reviews, data collection and analysis tools to support decision-making, strategy and reporting of impact at project level etc
• Facilitating workshops to support regions and related stakeholders
• Gathering and analysing qualitative and quantitative data as well as synthesising it into reports to produce actionable internal and external intelligence reports
• Support the development of a systems innovation MEL approach as a service and support embedding this service within fundraising efforts at the adaptation theme and RCNR cluster levels
• Implement and operationalise key elements of the project relevant MEL Frameworks as needed
• Support monitoring, evaluation, learning and portfolio management processes across Climate-KIC as needed and appropriate, including information flows with the central MEL team
• Engage proactively with internal and external stakeholders to communicate and market our service and collect feedback for improvement
• Advise, coach and/or train colleagues and partners on MEL as relevant
• Position the robust MEL practice of and within the RCNR Cluster as an asset within Climate-KIC and beyond

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's in Social Sciences, Evaluation or related disciplines is helpful, but not necessary
• We’re especially interested in candidates that have developed/tested MEL approaches to transformative adaptation
• Knowledge of Innovation frameworks and processes is desirable
• Experience engaging funders in conversations on utilisation and learning-focussed MEL is a plus
• Fluent in English, fluency in other European languages is a plus
• Experience or willingness to work with collaborative IT applications (we use Office365 and Microsoft Teams, as well as Miro, Zoom, Mentimeter etc.)
• Interest in and experience of using AI tools for data collection and synthesis is a plus

Benefits

• We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups and are happy to consider reasonable adjustments that will foster success in potential employees from diverse backgrounds and life situations
• And because our team has differing needs and personal circumstances, we offer a high degree of flexibility to accommodate all working patterns
• We’re happy to discuss your situation during the interview and see how best we can support you