Senior Measurement, Evaluation and Learning Manager

Summary

Join Climate KIC as a Senior Measurement, Evaluation, and Learning Manager (MEL Orchestrator) and spearhead the implementation of their evolving MEL Framework. You will foster connections with organizations interested in funding innovative evaluation work, collaborate internally and externally on business development, and maintain up-to-date knowledge of MEL, complexity theory, and transition theory. The role involves scoping and managing externally contracted MEL services, mentoring colleagues, co-leading the Sensemaking approach, and synthesizing monitoring and evaluation evidence to inform decision-making. You will work closely with various teams, the Advisory Board, and Leadership Team, requiring strong communication and strategic interaction skills. Climate KIC offers a remote-first approach with flexible working patterns and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in a social, natural or environmental science
• Demonstrated experience of designing and maintaining an organisation-wide MEL framework aligned with the organisation's mission, strategy, and values
• Demonstrated experience of integrating MEL with organisational strategy development and review processes
• Demonstrated experience of leading communities of practice and design strategies for MEL capacity development
• Demonstrated experience of successfully managing key stakeholder relationships and advocating for MEL internally and externally
• Deep familiarity with MEL and management challenges linked to hard-to-measure outcomes, complexity, systems change and within relevant sectors, and with the evaluation field more broadly, including with relevant trends, directions, challenges
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to synthesise information efficiently for different audiences
• Ability to lead, motivate and support colleagues
• Strong group facilitation skills, including for virtual meetings and diverse participants
• Excellent time and self-management skills
• Flexible and professional with a ‘Get it done’ orientation
• Confident, credible and able to influence others
• Collaborative team-player able to work effectively within a matrix structure
• Active interest and commitment to learning and applying new approaches/methods
• Develops and maintains strong networks and partnerships both nationally and internationally

Responsibilities

• Spearhead the implementation of Climate-KIC’s evolving MEL Framework and practice, with management and oversight of internal MEL processes as needed, ensuring ongoing alignment with needs, good practices and our refreshed strategy
• Foster connections with organisations and people interested in funding innovative evaluation work or who can enhance our MEL knowledge and expertise
• Collaborate internally and externally on business development to support the MEL function and learning by doing
• Maintain the latest theoretical and practical knowledge about MEL, complexity theory, transition theory and related organizational development approaches, including engagement with relevant communities of practice
• Sc oping and management of externally contracted MEL services where required
• Provide mentoring and leadership to colleagues on strategic and MEL-related challenges
• Co-lead/support our Sensemaking approach as a key component of our learning-by-doing practice
• Synthesise monitoring and evaluation evidence to inform decision-making and communications and pro-actively facilitate the engagement of stakeholders with evaluative evidence

Preferred Qualifications

Post-qualification training in monitoring and evaluation desirable but not a must

Benefits

• Competitive for Not-for-Profit Organisation
• High degree of flexibility to accommodate working patterns
• Remote-First approach, where colleagues work remotely from home