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The International Growth Centre (IGC)
IGC Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer
Salary from £28,241 to £32,689 per annum inclusive
Open-ended with extension subject to funding, currently funded until 31st March 2018
The 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 and works closely with partner governments to generate high quality research and policy advice on key growth challenges. Based at LSE and in partnership with the University of Oxford, the IGC is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
The IGC is ramping up its Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) activities. The Senior MEL Officer will work closely with the Head of MEL to help the IGC collect, organise, analyse and learn from monitoring and evaluation data. Core duties will include the management of a large database of the organisation’s projects, considering indicators key to understanding project-level influence (including influence on policy and frontiers of knowledge), preparation of the Annual Report and implementation of new MEL tools, including an events assessment tool and roll-out and implementation of a new monitoring system across our country teams and relevant external report writing and analysis. The role will also engage with the strategic direction of the MEL team and the management of the IGC’s external evaluation.
The successful applicant will have:
• 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 position based in the IGC Head Office located with LSE, in central London. The role is open-ended subject to funding and is currently funded until 31st March 2018 and may be extended.
Please visit the IGC website for more information on the International Growth Centre.
For further information about the post, please see the Job Description and the Person Specification.
To apply for this post, please go to www.lse.ac.uk/LSEJobs. If you have any queries about applying on the online system, or require an alternative format for the application, please e-mail: hr.jobs@lse.ac.uk
The closing date for receipt of applications is: 23:59 hours (GMT) on 4 October 2016. Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.