The African Climate Foundation is reruiting for a fully remote Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer
Application Deadline: 29 November 2024
The African Climate Foundation is reruiting for a fully remote Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer
Background
The African Climate Foundation (ACF) is the first and only African-led climate change re-granting organisation on the continent. Through a combination of grant making, fellowships, transformational research, technical assistance, coalition building and advocacy the ACF seeks to support interventions at the nexus of climate change, and development that have the greatest potential to deliver long-term socio-economic transformation and inclusive development.
ACF’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Framework supports the effective implementation of the ACF Strategic Framework (2021-2025) by providing the mechanisms and tools with which to measure its progress in realising its ambition of “a vibrant and climate-resilient Africa in which inclusive socio-economic development delivers sustainable and equitable growth”. The ACF’s MEL Framework seeks to:
- Support a culture of learning by providing the tools and creating the process with which to monitor and track progress, build on successes, and capture lessons learned.
- Assist to foster collaboration and co-creation by working with partners, grantees and funders to align MEL strategies to improve data collection (both quantitative and qualitative) and enable knowledge sharing.
- Provide support to strengthen decision making by building the evidence with which to assess the effectiveness of strategies, the impact of programmes, the efficiency of spending and organisational health.
- Support ACF’s grant making by providing tools and enabling continual improvements to the grant-making system by integrating learnings from grantees, partners and the ACF team.
Purpose
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer, working across the ACF’s programmes, will:
- Provide technical support to the ACF’s Programme Leadership and Grants Management Units to implement the ACF’s learning-focused Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework to track our progress towards the realisation of the ACF’s organisational strategy and objectives.
- Participate actively on the reviewing of programmatic results frameworks, theories of change, and/or support evaluations both internally and externally.
- Assist across the ACF’s programme areas to implement the monitoring, evaluation and learning components of proposals and reporting processes to funders.
Key responsibilities:
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer will:
- Ensuring there is alignment between the ACF’s MEL framework and donor reporting requirements.
- Capacitate and support the ACF staff to integrate MEL into daily operations and grant management.
- Support the ACF’s grantees in developing tools to monitor and evaluate their programmes of work.
- Ensuring the ACF’s compliance with donor MEL reporting requirements.
- Analyse the ACF’s performance against KPIs and advise Senior Management Team and programme leads accordingly.
- Facilitate collaborative design of inputs to proposal and reporting processes (e.g., theories of change, KPIs, outcomes, indicators, cross cutting topics and other metrics, etc.)
- Support the management of contracts or grants related to impact and learning. Ability to commission evaluations.
- Support the management and oversight of external service providers in programme evaluations as needed.
- Support the incorporation of data and evidence into programmatic strategies and organisational priorities.
- Assist on project level reviews learning and reflection sessions, as specified in the MEL framework as a key accountability mechanism.
- Collate organisational learnings between units to ensure the whole organisation benefits from and applies programmatic learning as well as liaise with the communications team on ensuring effective knowledge management.
- Support efforts to enable decision making, including synthesising and summarising operational and programmatic data.
- Produce reports, memos, presentations, or other materials to communicate learnings to a variety of stakeholders.
Requirements:
- A Masters or equivalent in Statistics or Data Management.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant, professional experience focused on monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
- Experience working in climate change, public policy, international development, and/or social justice in philanthropic, NGO, coalition, legislative or advocacy communities in Africa.
- Proven track record of implementing internal organisational MEL systems.
- Excellent analytical skills and the capacity to analyse complex qualitative and quantitative data coming from multiple sources and create visual representations.
- Ability to apply and communicate complex findings and analytical outcomes to diverse audiences and across different mediums.
- Competent in database applications for data collection, analytics and reporting; spreadsheet software (e.g. advance Excel, Stata, SPSS, R) data visualisation software (e.g. Tableau, Power BI)
- Excellent organisational and time management skills.
- Ability to understand and interpret stakeholder requirements.
- Proven track record of adjusting in a fast-paced and wide-ranging work environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Bilingual, English and French. Candidates with proficiency in French will be given preference. (Application to be submitted in English)
- Excellent presentation skills.
Start date: Based on the successful applicants’ availability.
Location: Remote working will be considered for candidates based in Africa.
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