Monitoring, Evaluation and Accountability Manager at CBM International

This role will provide strategic leadership related to MEAL to the CBM Global Secretariat, Country teams and Technical teams. As the subject matter expert, the post holder is expected to shape and refine the role and their priorities to ensure that the correct focus is given to the most important areas within the broad scope of MEAL to ensure the role is a success.

The post holder will be required to:

• Finalise and roll out our Federation wide impact framework
• Establish our overall MEAL approach, procedures and guidelines to enhance the effectiveness and value add of MEAL within the Federation
• Propose longer term plans/solutions for how as a Federation we can attain and maintain highly effective and beneficial MEAL practice across our programme work.

The role will involve a mix of:

• Higher level, strategic tasks, shaping and promoting our MEAL approach
• Developing and writing MEAL procedures and guidelines
• Building capacity within the Federation related to MEAL
• Coordinating between those involved in MEAL across the Federation
• Providing more hands on MEAL advice and support
• Federation wide data gathering and analysis.

Responsibilities and Duties

Strategy and leadership

• Craft a coherent, Federation wide approach to MEAL and provide thought leadership related to MEAL across the Federation.
• Refine the core purpose and strategy of the MEAL function within the CBM Global Secretariat and lead on fulfilling the purpose.
• Collaborate and coordinate with the different entities within the CBM Global Federation (Members, Technical Teams and Country Teams) to create synergies, ensure alignment and maximise effective use of resources.
• Lead the Federation Impact Framework Working Group.
• Lead on finalising and rolling out the Federation impact framework. This will include developing appropriate methodologies for measuring agreed global indicators where this is necessary and finalising the approach for using Global Online (CBM Global’s project and programme management software) as a data management tool for storing project level data and aggregating data across projects and programmes.
• Develop and propose longer term plans/solutions for how as a Federation we can attain and maintain highly effective and beneficial MEAL practice across our programme work beyond the initial 2 year period. Achieve buy in / support for the proposed approach.

Approach, procedures and guidelines

• Ensure there are fully fit for purpose policies, procedures, guidelines and templates in place across the Federation related to MEAL. This will involve reviewing and updating existing procedures and developing new ones where there are gaps.
• Build understanding across the Federation of agreed policies, procedures and guidelines and capacity to adhere to them.
• Oversee compliance to agreed policies and procedures.

Federation data and reporting

• Lead on aggregating and analysing data for the production of Federation impact reports.
• Oversee data quality and storage. This will require building capacity to collect quality data, (in particular against Federation Global indicators); ensuring data collection is in line with Federation standards and requirements; and that data is saved and stored in line with procedures and requirements.

Learning, knowledge management and accountability

• In close collaboration with the different entities within CBM Global, develop knowledge management and learning mechanisms, processes and tools for the Federation, which enhance our ability to identify and capture learning; share learning internally and externally; and make learning more easily accessible.
• Support teams within the Federation to disseminate learning products within and outside the organisation.
• Develop/improve mechanisms, processes and tools for enhancing feedback and accountability between CBM Global, project partners and project participants.

Skills

• Leads teams to develop the necessary skills and expertise to undertake their roles and responsibilities for safeguarding.
• Explicitly and visibly challenges power imbalances, inequalities, gender bias and discrimination in organisational systems and processes.
• Leads on organisational change within their teams to embed safeguarding in their work and processes.
• Develops indicators and frameworks for measuring how well teams are delivering on roles and responsibilities for safeguarding.
• Creates organisational mechanisms which strengthen accountability to communities, Members and donors on safeguarding.

Key outcomes expected from this role

• Through the effective and consistent use of an impact framework, CBM Global is better able to measure and communicate our impact and what we achieve as a Federation.
• Good MEAL practice is embedded across the CBM Global Federation and supported through the consistent use of appropriate procedures, guidelines and tools.
• Enhanced organisation learning and knowledge management
• Long term plan for attaining and maintaining high MEAL standards is agreed

Experience

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a lead MEAL role.
• Experience developing and rolling out MEAL procedures, guidelines and tools
• Strong experience working with data and project management / data management software packages
• Research experience and experience in developing and rolling out methodologies for measuring quantitative and qualitative indicators of impact.
• Real world, hands on practical experience of measuring outcomes and impact in developing countries
• Strong experience in all aspects of the project cycle, working with logframes and tracking project/programme performance
• Experience in training and capacity building
• Experience working with project management and data management software packages
• Experience within a Federation structure
• Experience in the disability sector
• Lived experience of disability

Skills/competencies/personal qualities

• Leadership
• Proactive and propositional. Able to shape and define this role and make it a success.
• Strategic thinker and a doer. Able to shape strategy and deliver it. Comfortable working at strategic and operational levels.
• Ability to work under pressure, with minimum supervision
• Able to hit the ground running and to make a difference in the role from day 1
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Adept at working on multiple things at once and at prioritising
• Influencing others
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Fluent in English (written and verbal)

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or above