Senior Officer - Programme Monitoring & Evaluation at Blue Ventures

Summary job description

• This is a full-time role, reporting to the global Senior Manager Programme Monitoring & Evaluation as part of the Programme Management (PM) team. The team supports and monitors programme delivery across Blue Ventures’ (BV’s) countries and regions of operation, helping ensure alignment with our global strategy. The team sits as a cross-cutting function in the organisation, to monitor, identify, and help address challenges, learnings, and successes in our support of partners and their work with communities, and to link in expert advice from other teams across the organisation.
• This is a key role in supporting Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) colleagues and our team, partners, and communities to use monitoring and evaluation tools that support learning and adaptive management. Occasional international and national travel is required to provide in-country support and learning.

Responsibilities

Project Management

• Coordinate with M&E and PM colleagues to collate, review, and verify project indicator reports (particularly through logframe or result frameworks).
• Create materials and support colleagues to ensure understanding and maintain consistency in indicator monitoring and reporting and other grant requirements for M&E.
• Coordinate the preparation of materials for logframe amendments.
• Review applications and proposals against organisational indicators and flag discrepancies for review.
• Support project evaluations required by funders; for example, through the collation and organisation of data and synthesis of results for internal use.

Programme Management & Organisational M&E

• Support the development and roll out of programme management templates and documents such as logframes, M&E plans and work plans across the organisation.
• Support the development and tracking of organisational indicators.
• Support the review and evaluation of organisational progress via the theory of change data, programme performance metrics, and other organisational indicators to highlight any areas of concern or learning.

Capacity building and support to regional/country staff and partners

• Support colleagues to identify knowledge and capacity gaps in global and regional teams.
• Support the creation of and manage M&E training materials and documents.
• Support development and delivery of training on the use of programme management and M&E tools, systems, and outputs.
• Coordinate global/regional M&E events and learning activities.

Skills and experience

Required

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field and/or equivalent work experience.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Proven experience in monitoring and evaluation support, including logical framework development and reporting.
• Proven experience in donor reporting processes, particularly for large institutional donors.
• Competency in data management systems and tools such as Excel, Smartsheets, etc.
• Proven experience in the development of training materials and documentation and delivery of training, preferably remotely.
• Attention to detail and excellent organisational skills.
• Proactive problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively as part of a multicultural and dispersed team and communicate results.
• Remote coordination skills across multiple countries.
• Willingness to travel globally for occasional in-country support and training.

We would also love to see

• Experience of the small-scale fisheries, marine conservation or rural development sectors.
• Experience in community-led monitoring programmes or community-based conservation.
• Experience in project and/or programme management support function.
• Experience working with partner organisations.
• Experience of impact evaluation processes.
• Basic proficiency in Kiswahili, French, Malagasy or Bahasa Indonesian.
• Knowledge of research design, data management, analysis, and reporting, including large dataset interpretation.
• Understanding of monitoring method development, sampling design, and data capture tools.
• Knowledge of specialist data management and analysis tools such as Tableau, RShiny, Kobo Toolbox.
• Master's degree or other further education and training in a relevant field.

Closing date for applications: 17th November 2024