Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Manager, Economic Empowerment at Sightsavers

Contract:     2 years’ Fixed Term Contract

Salary:        Local Terms and Conditions apply

Purpose of role

Our global MEL team are excited to be looking for a professional Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager  to join their team as the MEL Manager, Economic Empowerment. The post-holder will be the MEL technical lead for this portfolio supporting innovations, adaptation and learning at project and programme level.

Economic empowerment is a relatively new and rapidly expanding thematic area for Sightsavers. The portfolio consists of a number of small seed-funded projects in ECSA, WARO and Asia. Sightsavers’ focal areas are employment, entrepreneurship and financial inclusion of people with disabilities working in partnership with Organisations of Persons with Disabilities, employers, Business Disability Networks and Financial Institutions.

About the role of MEL Manager, Economic Empowerment

The post-holder will provide technical MEL leadership around economic empowerment. Experience in MEL for economic empowerment is crucial and of MEL in social inclusion highly desirable. Working collaboratively with the MEL team, the post-holder will be responsible for developing MEL tools and practices for MEL for this thematic area.

Principal accountabilities:

Technical Leadership and Management – Lead on developing and executing a MEL strategy and plan for the economic empowerment thematic area; lead on the execution of MEL throughout the project lifecycle; coordinate contributions from team members; develop MEL plans that respond to Learning Questions for the thematic strategy and contribute to the thematic strategy’s results framework; maintain inclusive accessible and participatory protocols across MEL work for people with disabilities

Learning, Adaptation and Evidence – Develop research protocols that meet the ethical protocols for each country; lead on reporting of baseline, annual and endline data, notably inclusive data; collaborate and coordinate with Evidence and Research Advisors; disseminate key learning and best practice across all stakeholders to support a culture of learning about the programme; and champion adaptive learning among project teams and partners.

Developing and Improving – Strengthen MEL skills and knowledge at partner level; utilise resources especially communities we serve to bolster continuous learning of MEL for economic empowerment; ensure sufficient MEL capacity at project level to meet high standards in line with the principles of inclusion; create a repository of economic empowerment MEL resource tools and data; alongside colleagues support enhanced evolving MEL approaches regarding inclusive data, disability data

Monitoring and Reporting – Contribute to results framework and narrative reporting

Knowledge, skills and experience for MEL Manager, Economic Empowerment

Essential:

• Master’s degree within international development, disability studies, economics or relevant field
• Excellent knowledge base within international development/not for profit sector, specifically economic empowerment
• Previous experience working with inclusive data, disability data
• Working knowledge and experience of participatory planning, evaluating and monitoring approaches
• Understanding and knowledge of adaptive management and corresponding MEL approaches
• Demonstrable experience in producing first class research, evaluation and baseline reports
• Understanding and knowledge of MEL tools and indicators for economic empowerment.
• Excellent communication written and oral
• Creative problem solver
• Proven track record working in a similar role for a multi-country programme
• Available to travel up to 8 weeks annually
• Fluent English, written and spoken

Desirable:

• Professional work within disability inclusion programmes
• Working knowledge of Washington Group questions
• Familiar with piloting new adaptive ways of working and scaling up
• Previous experience delivering engaging and outcome focused training

The MEL Manager, Economic Empowerment is a highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the Job Description for full details.

Interviews are likely to take place week commencing 31 October 2022. This will be a one stage interview process with a presentation at interview. Please note we may request examples of previous written products such as baseline reports, evaluation reports etc.