Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor

SPC - Secretariat of the Pacific Community

Noumea, New Caledonia

The role – the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor will lead the quality and impact of SPC work through monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) and related planning across the organization. The purpose of the role is to lead OneSPC methods and practices for the strategic results framework of the Strategic Plan, 2022 – 2031 including evaluative evidence for improvements and adaptation, portfolio wide results monitoring and reporting and coordinating the SPC-wide MEL Community of Practice (MELnet) and Strengthening Pacific MEL project and associated initiatives.

The key responsibilities of the role include the following:

Co design and steward organisation-wide results monitoring, reporting, learning and reflection

• Provide analytical thinking and in depth understanding of current and emerging approaches to monitoring and evaluating and learning at whole of organisation/portfolio and trans-disciplinary/system levels.
• Provide high level technical analysis and advice to the regular review and implementation of SPC’s Strategic Results Framework (SRF) for the Strategic Plan.
• Support the Lead Quality and Impact with coordinating the MEL focal points across the organisation to support consistency, data quality, capacity, and availability of evidence for organisation-wide MEL. Currently there are 35 MEL focal point members.
• Support the Lead, Quality and Impact with the development, regular revision and implementation of policies, processes, and systems to support MEL and planning for SPC’s Strategic Plan.
• Co design and develop tools within the PEARL toolkit to support quality and coherent MEL practice across the SPC portfolio.
• Provide technical support and advice to SPC-wide integrated work (e.g., SPC’s Flagships and other integrated cross-organisational programmes), and advise on quality and coherence of Division-level results frameworks, high-level partnership agreements, large-scale investments, and other strategic initiatives.
• Contribute high level understanding of core principles of good practice in development covering areas such as: gender and social development dimensions; multi-sector and integrated work and planning/programming for outcome.

Provide MEL support to SPC divisions, flagships, operations and members

• Support the Lead Quality and Impact in co designing and stewarding the annual calendar of MEL activities (mid-year and end of year).
• Coordination of the SPC-wide Annual Results Reporting process and product.
• Steward the planning and execution of strategic-level evaluations, management responses and the evaluation dashboard.
• Implement participatory and culturally responsive processes to develop theories and models of what success in country and at sector and divisional mean.
• Contribute expert MEL inputs, advice, and support towards coherence and quality of SPC work from projects, up to Divisions, with line of sight to strategic, whole of organisation and broader development commitments.

Contribute to healthy engagement and exchange in SPC MEL Communities of Practice

• Support the Lead Quality and Impact in stewardship of SPC’s internal MEL Community of Practice (MELnet) of 90 staff.
• Facilitating technical MEL workshops, cross divisional MEL group meetings; learning events, coordinating MEL network exchanges, and supporting integrated ways of working.
• Support the development of MEL capability, through SPC-wide MEL group (MELnet), member countries and partners on the development of results frameworks and results reporting, and through facilitating action learning, intra-organisational networks and learning events on monitoring evaluation and learning.
• Support the development and implementation of a fit for purpose and future ready MEL data management system that is interoperable with SPC systems.

Contribute to OneSPC and OneCROP innovation, transformation and impact

• Provide technical leadership, coordination, and support to Lead, the Director and ultimately the Office of the Director General.
• Contribute to an environment that fosters effective working relationships, sharing of knowledge, building trust and wellbeing.
• Contribute across all pillars of SPL and the Office of the Director General, OneSPC and OneCROP as required.

Key selection criteria:

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field such as evaluation, international development, public sector policy and administration or equivalent body of knowledge and experience.

Technical expertise

• At least 10 years of relevant experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning, on donor/grant-funded projects or programmes, with good understanding of international best practices in development effectiveness.
• Experience working on development sector MEL in the Pacific.
• Experience in the design, leadership, and management of programmes and projects.
• Experience managing and leading consultants and or complex projects at portfolio level.
• Experience training, mentoring and coaching staff and stakeholders in MEL.
• Strategic thinker with well-developed analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Skilled user of databases for entering processing/cleaning, and extracting data.

Language skills

• Excellent communication skills in English (both oral and writing skills) to target a range of audience.

Interpersonal skills and cultural awareness

• Excellent interpersonal skills and experience in working with and across the organisation in a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary and gender-sensitive environment.

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