MEL Regional Manager, Africa

MEL Regional Manager, Africa

About Palladium:

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop anddeliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around theglobe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; buildenduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems toaddress global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over90 countries and have a workforce of 4, talented, motivated, and diversestaff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

This Opportunity:

Palladium is recruiting for an experienced Monitoring, Evaluation& Learning (MEL) Regional Manager with a passion for tackling climatechange to join our UK PACT team in Africa. The UK PACT programme aims toimprove the effectiveness of key institutions (public, private and civilsociety) in partner countries so that they can deliver accelerated emissionreductions and raise the ambition of their Nationally Determined Contributions(NDCs) targets. Specifically, the programme will deliver the following results:

An increase in the capacity and capability of partner institutions (national, sub-national and civil society) to deliver enhanced and accelerated climate actions
An increase in in-country buy-in to urgently facilitate low-carbon development

UK PACT is a complex, multi-country and multi-sector programme,which delivers impact through a combination of grant funding for longer-termcapacity-building projects and the rapid mobilisation of short-term expertisefor targeted skills and knowledge transfer.

Location:

The position will be based in Kenya, Nigeria or South Africa.

You and Your Career:

If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, anddoer, and you have expertise in designing andmanaging MEL strategies and have experience ingathering, organising, and analysing large amounts of quantitative andqualitative data across multiple countries and sectors/intervention area, we are interested in hearing from you.

We are a learning organisation and provide growth opportunitiesfrom the start. We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources,and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Reporting Lines:

The position will report to the UK PACT programme MEL Manager, inCoordination with the UK PACT Regional Africa lead, and willalso be expected to contribute to cross-programme MEL activities as needed.

PrimaryRoles and Responsibilities:

The UK PACT MEL Regional Manager will be responsible for managingthe monitoring of results for the Africa region and aspects of learning acrossthe relevant country and regional funds. The position will be based in one ofthe UK PACT focus countries in the region with some travel expected.

The MEL Regional Manager will be responsible for theimplementation of the monitoring and learning activities across all countryfunds in the region, currently covering Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Theywill lead the implementation of the UK PACT monitoring plan andlearning framework, ensuring programme level guidance and tools are adapted andapplied appropriately at the country (and regional) fund level. This willinvolve facilitating annual strategy testing and theory of change refreshsessions; ensuring that country fund MEL systems generate measurable resultsand impact that feed into programme level reporting; ensuring timely andhigh-quality reporting from each country fund; supporting learning andadaptation processes for decision making; and providing technical backstoppingsupport to country teams.

Specifically, the UK PACT MEL Regional Manager will:

Monitoring& Learning Strategy Development, Technical Expertise, and Implementation

With the support of the central UK PACT MEL Manager, adapt and apply programme level guidance and frameworks, including Theory of Change (ToC) and results framework (logframe), at the country (and regional fund) level, ensuring these reflect country fund level specificities and needs
Lead facilitation of country and sector level ToC development sessions in Latin America, and annual refreshes
Drive and be ultimately responsible for quarterly and annual data collection, quality assurance and reporting of results from across relevant regional and country funds.
Advise UK PACT Implementing Partners (grantees) on project reporting (technical and results), ensuring reporting meets FCDO and programme requirements, providing a coordination and quality assurance function
Assist UK PACT Implementing Partners and UK PACT team colleagues in country in monitoring and learning activities that include applying assessment tools, designing case studies, implementing capacity building strategies and providing training, assisting with data analysis and presentation, developing data-informed action plans and other technical assistance as requested
Facilitate processes to ensure learning is identified and captured across all areas of the programme, and fed back into strategic decision making to facilitate adaptive management
Support in identifying and advising on the potential to extend, scale up or replicate successful projects, and enhance strategic portfolio development to deliver impact, through provision of relevant research, evidence and learning pieces

StakeholderRelationships

Maintain a strong working relationship with the client, working collaboratively to ensure MEL frameworks and systems are relevant and tailored to individual country and regional fund contexts, and providing insight into the delivery details of the programme in an open and transparent manner
Provide a key support function to in-country teams for all MEL issues and bottlenecks
Be responsible for flowing down monitoring and reporting excellence to grantees via the country teams, including provision of guidance, tools coaching and training where necessary to deliver MEL successfully

KeyCompetencies and Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

Demonstrable experience in designing and managing MEL strategies, approaches and plans – including ToC and logframes – to enable and support adaptive management and learning in large climate and development programmes (at least 5 years)
Strong experience in gathering, organising, and analysing large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data across multiple countries and sectors/intervention areas (at least 3 years)
Technical understanding and knowledge of climate mitigation themes, including but not limited to energy, transport, low-carbon policy, nature-based solutions and green finance
Demonstrated experience in knowledge management and dissemination.
Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills, including capacity development related to MEL approaches
Strong reporting skills, with proven ability to engage with and manage both donor client formal reporting and ad-hoc requests
Excellent communication skills, including demonstrated ability to capture and communicate results and impact in a clear, compelling and cogent manner
Knowledge and understanding of the local contexts in the priority countries, including socio-economic context and development challenges and priorities
An ability to see both the big (strategic) picture, identifying opportunities for innovation and value addition for UK PACT, as well as keeping alert to programme delivery risks linked to the monitoring and learning aspect of the programme
Highly collaborative and committed to close working and open communication with colleagues in post and in the UK, and other UK PACT partners
A high degree of personal resilience, flexibility and ability to work under evolving circumstances
Professional fluency in English, both written and spoken. Knowledge of other regional languages a bonus but not essential

Equity,Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, andinclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections ofsociety and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success,and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achievediversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receiveequal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personalcharacteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economicbackground, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity,sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenousstatus.

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Safeguarding - We defineSafeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect ourpeople, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committedto ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladiumare treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject toan enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and arigorous due diligence process.