MEAL Officer
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning
Homebased - (can be based anywhere in UK but willing to travel to fully expensed meetings when required, infrequently)
£44,000 + excellent benefits package
Permanent
We are currently recruiting for a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer for an international grant making organisation, focusing on social justice and environmental programmes.
This is an exciting role where you will be a major player in shaping how the organisaiton goes about it's Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning. The organisation is growing, so this is definitely a role who suit someone who is driven by supporting organisational change.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Provide support to the Programmes and Learning functions to ensure high-quality analysis and reporting from grantee data across growing grantmaking portfolio.
- Analyse grantmaking and other programmatic activity
- Use a range of methodologies and tools such as data visualisations, written briefs and summary reports to provide qualitative and quantitative data analysis and insights to colleagues across the organisation, including senior leadership, Programmes, Operations, Communications and Philanthropic Partnerships.
- Supporting programme design and ensuring appropriate monitoring tools are in place for donor-funded programme activities
- Contribute to global programme strategy development and support advisory boards with data analysis to assist with advisory board strategy development:
- Making recommendations for the UK and/or global organisation on MEAL infrastructure, ensuring tools are fit for purpose and appropriate to context through review and revision:
- Assist in the development of a strategy for data collection, analysis, learning and accountability and ensuring there are ongoing learning and feedback mechanisms.
- Contributing to the design of global grantee surveys and relevant global learning initiatives.
Skills and experience required:
- Significant experience in a similar role undertaking monitoring, evaluation, learning and data analysis in a charitable, environmental, development, social justice charity / grant making organisation
- Track record in data collection, monitoring and analysis, with good working knowledge of a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, tools and systems, and in using this information to evaluate and recommend adaptations, and in reporting.
- Higher-level qualifications/certification in a relevant field, post-graduate qualification (e.g. MSc, PhD) preferred, particularly in the social sciences and/or use of mixed method approaches
- Author of MEAL-related reports, either organisational reports or academic publications
- Ability to coordinate and improve the process of data collection, analysis and reporting.
- Experience in managing datasets, databases, programming, and other analysis software.
- Exceptional written, expository, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to travel within the UK and internationally (approx. 2-4 weeks per year).
- Experience in project and program management
- Critical thinking and analysis
- Strategic risk management
- Ability to influence and resolve differences across boundaries
- Excellent relationship building skills