Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer
Professional Services

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The International Growth Centre (IGC)

 

IGC Senior MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) Officer

 

Salary from £30,570 to £35,108 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £37,717 pa inclusive of London allowance

 

The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. The IGC directs a global network of world-leading researchers and in-country teams in Africa and South Asia, working closely with partner governments to generate high quality research and policy advice on key growth challenges, focusing on four themes: state effectiveness, firms, cities and energy. Based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and in partnership with the University of Oxford, the IGC is funded primarily by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), with support from other donors such as the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

 

The Senior MEL Officer will work closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager, Director of Impact and Learning, and teams across the IGC to collect, organise, analyse, share and learn from monitoring and evaluation data and information. Facilitating organisational learning and development is also a core component of the role. Core duties will revolve around delivery of the IGC’s MEL strategy – which is underpinned by two primary principles, ‘Demonstrate Effectiveness’, and ‘Learn to Improve’, The role includes, but is not restricted to: maintaining and developing effective monitoring systems, tools and processes to enable analysis and reporting; managing a portfolio of IGC Country Teams and Initiatives from a MEL perspective, writing impact case studies and conducting detailed impact analysis; supporting internal and external evaluation activities, to provide actionable insights for strategic decision-making; facilitating cross-organisation knowledge exchange and learning, by developing relationships and networks across the organisation, identifying knowledge and learning gaps, and contributing to current and future knowledge exchange forums; playing a core role in delivery of milestone reports, such as Annual Reports, Mid-Year Reviews, Quarterly Management reporting, as well as being responsive to ad-hoc internal and donor reporting requirements, and; generating public-facing MEL content for a variety of audiences.

 

The IGC has recently entered a new seven-year phase of funding, which presents an exciting time to join the organisation, as it reviews its past performances across programmes and operations, and converts analysis and insights into substantial organisational development, in particular relating to MEL.

 

The successful applicant will have:

  • Degree-level (or equivalent) education, with preference for degrees in International Development, Social Sciences, Economics or related disciplines
  • Strong knowledge of MEL principles, tools, practices and methodologies, and ability to develop new tools and processes for monitoring and evaluation purposes
  • Experience analysing and presenting data effectively for a wide range of audiences, with accuracy and attention to detail
  • Experience in meeting tight deadlines set internally and by external stakeholders, and the ability to hold others to those deadlines
  • Excellent communication skills, in particular for producing data reports and IGC impact cases which articulate academic, technical information to non-specialist audiences
  • Initiative and drive
  • The ability to work well in a team with a flexible approach

This is a full-time permanent position based in the IGC Head Office located within the LSE, in central London. N.B. in the interim remote working is required as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, and will remain so until sections of the LSE Campus re-open. At present, office closure seems likely to be in place until at least March 2021.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, the job description and the person specification.

 

If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. To find out more information please go to www.theigc.org/about/careers.

The closing date for receipt of applications is: Saturday 31st October 2020 at 23:59 (GMT). Interviews will be held remotely during week commencing 2nd November 2020.

 

 
  We value diversity and wish to promote equality at all levels 


The International Growth Centre (IGC)

 

IGC Senior MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) Officer

 

Salary from £30,570 to £35,108 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £37,717 pa inclusive of London allowance

 

The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. The IGC directs a global network of world-leading researchers and in-country teams in Africa and South Asia, working closely with partner governments to generate high quality research and policy advice on key growth challenges, focusing on four themes: state effectiveness, firms, cities and energy. Based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and in partnership with the University of Oxford, the IGC is funded primarily by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), with support from other donors such as the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

 

The Senior MEL Officer will work closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager, Director of Impact and Learning, and teams across the IGC to collect, organise, analyse, share and learn from monitoring and evaluation data and information. Facilitating organisational learning and development is also a core component of the role. Core duties will revolve around delivery of the IGC’s MEL strategy – which is underpinned by two primary principles, ‘Demonstrate Effectiveness’, and ‘Learn to Improve’, The role includes, but is not restricted to: maintaining and developing effective monitoring systems, tools and processes to enable analysis and reporting; managing a portfolio of IGC Country Teams and Initiatives from a MEL perspective, writing impact case studies and conducting detailed impact analysis; supporting internal and external evaluation activities, to provide actionable insights for strategic decision-making; facilitating cross-organisation knowledge exchange and learning, by developing relationships and networks across the organisation, identifying knowledge and learning gaps, and contributing to current and future knowledge exchange forums; playing a core role in delivery of milestone reports, such as Annual Reports, Mid-Year Reviews, Quarterly Management reporting, as well as being responsive to ad-hoc internal and donor reporting requirements, and; generating public-facing MEL content for a variety of audiences.

 

The IGC has recently entered a new seven-year phase of funding, which presents an exciting time to join the organisation, as it reviews its past performances across programmes and operations, and converts analysis and insights into substantial organisational development, in particular relating to MEL.

 

The successful applicant will have:

  • Degree-level (or equivalent) education, with preference for degrees in International Development, Social Sciences, Economics or related disciplines
  • Strong knowledge of MEL principles, tools, practices and methodologies, and ability to develop new tools and processes for monitoring and evaluation purposes
  • Experience analysing and presenting data effectively for a wide range of audiences, with accuracy and attention to detail
  • Experience in meeting tight deadlines set internally and by external stakeholders, and the ability to hold others to those deadlines
  • Excellent communication skills, in particular for producing data reports and IGC impact cases which articulate academic, technical information to non-specialist audiences
  • Initiative and drive
  • The ability to work well in a team with a flexible approach

This is a full-time permanent position based in the IGC Head Office located within the LSE, in central London. N.B. in the interim remote working is required as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, and will remain so until sections of the LSE Campus re-open. At present, office closure seems likely to be in place until at least March 2021.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, the job description and the person specification.

 

If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. To find out more information please go to www.theigc.org/about/careers.

The closing date for receipt of applications is: Saturday 31st October 2020 at 23:59 (GMT). Interviews will be held remotely during week commencing 2nd November 2020.