Impact and Learning Analyst

The Role

FILE is seeking an early career Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Analyst to join a small and integrated team to provide support across a broad portfolio of work.

This is an exciting role within a critical area of the organisation building our evidence base on impact and using it to support learning with a range of stakeholders. The Impact & Learning team at FILE is responsible for generating evidence and learning through collated partner reporting to enable FILE and its partners to be as impactful as possible. This involves collating and analysing data, creating and facilitating learning processes within FILE and with our funded partners and ensuring evidence and insights are fed back into FILE’s and our partners’ strategies. The team works closely with all functions across the wider organisation.

The successful candidate will perform tasks related to the collection and analysis of data from partner reports as well as learning from evidence regarding FILE’s activities. This position will primarily focus on supporting 4 key areas:

• Monitoring: Enabling and supporting the collection of robust and consistent reports and data from partners to support their progress towards impact.
• Data management: Partner data collation and verification from different data sources e.g. reviewing indicator data and qualitative reports.
• Donor and board reporting: Preparation and presentation of data and evidence for our donors and board to demonstrate our progress towards impact
• Supporting internal and external learning: enable learning at all levels of the organisation through designing and delivering learning processes with FILE staff and partners

Note that FILE does not conduct in house evaluations but works closely with a broad range of experts and partners to build the necessary evidence base to understand impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting our portfolio and grants team in monitoring and reviewing grant documentation in line with FILE’s results framework including providing grant assessments.
• Reviewing and verifying partner reports, providing summaries for internal portfolio, Executive teams and FILE’s auditing.
• Monitoring progress of individual grants and portfolios including data extraction in line with FILE’s Results Framework and Case Database.
• Maintaining and refining, as required, data collection and management tools including partner reporting templates in collaboration with our Grant Management team.
• Summarising relevant data for inclusion in our half-yearly donor reports and quarterly updates for our Board and Senior Leadership Team.
• Supporting our Impact and Learning Manager to coordinate strategic inputs from portfolio teams relating to progress and results for inclusion in donor reports.
• Supporting our Impact and Learning Manager with the development and facilitation of webinars and learning sessions for FILE’s key audiences.
• Preparing and sharing relevant data in a compelling format for bi-annual learning processes with FILE portfolio teams.
• Supporting our Impact and Learning Manager with the creation of new templates and methods for showcasing impact and results across a wide range of audiences.

What You'll Achieve (expected outcomes)

• Increased partner and staff capacity and capability to collect and interpret good data.
• Clear and compelling donor and board reporting.
• Enablement of learning at all levels of the organisation through effectively communicating data and evidence.
• Partner learning enabled through learning sessions and webinars with partners.
• Grant managers supported on partner data and monitoring in line with FILE’s results framework.

About you

We know that long lists of criteria can be discouraging and that some candidates will not apply for a role unless they feel they are 100% qualified. Even if you do not meet all the skills and experience listed, we still encourage you to apply if you think you meet some or have related experience to offer.

We also recognise that skills and experience can be gained in unexpected places, so we welcome applications from candidates who feel they have relevant skills for the role, gained from a wide range of professional, lived and learned experiences.

• Understanding of and interest in climate mitigation & adaptation, biodiversity or other environmental issues
• Proven experience of applying monitoring, evaluation and learning or research approaches within an organisation
• Experience and interest in building equitable relationships and partnerships and a confident collaborator, able to work with people across the organisation and with external partners
• Facilitation skills – in person and online, including designing sessions and processes which focus on learning outcomes for participants
• Experience of collecting qualitative and quantitative data using different tools and templates including desktop research and semi-structured interview
• Data visualisation skills using different platforms and tools to clearly and compellingly communicate data
• Good quantitative data management and analysis skills including use of MS databases (Excel, Access) or other similar tools
• Competent in translating technical information into reports or knowledge products for different audiences
• Well-developed project management skills
• Philanthropic experience an advantage but not a requirement

About FILE

The Foundation for International Law for the Environment (FILE) was set up in 2018 to be the major philanthropic re-granter scaling up legal action globally to tackle the climate and the biodiversity crises.

We work as movement enablers, campaign strategists, and impact funders, using the law in pursuit of three interconnected system-level goals:

• Reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to protect the climate
• Safeguarding nature
• Delivering climate and environmental justice

We pursue these goals not just by supporting legal action directly. We believe in growing the strength of the climate and biodiversity legal movement globally, and in enabling people and movements to use legal action to shift narratives.

As movement enablers, campaign strategists, and impact funders, we at FILE do not ourselves bring litigation. As a regrantor, FILE is not an endowed foundation, but rather we engage in fundraising to secure resources to support our partners globally.

Working for FILE

FILE is a collaborative community of individuals who share a passion for climate, nature, and justice. We bring together knowledge and experience to support our mission. 

Our people are empowered to lead their work both individually and as part of a wider team in order to make impactful change. As a relatively young organisation with the ambitious mission to change global systems, our roles are ideally suited to those who are highly strategic, flexible and adaptable, and open to growing in line with the Foundation. 

FILE is committed to challenging inequality and values diversity, equity and justice in all areas of life.  Our mission, work and impact is global, with staff and partners from across the world and a range of lived experiences. We firmly believe that we are strengthened by the diversity of our partners and staff. 

At FILE, we actively work to create an inclusive culture where colleagues feel welcomed, heard and supported to succeed and thrive.

How FILE supports its staff

FILE is committed to creating a workplace that supports our staff to do their best work and develop professionally. We offer a generous annual leave policy and additional time-off work to support wellbeing. Amongst other benefits, FILE offers private healthcare and a contribution to a pension scheme.

Location

FILE has offices in London and the Netherlands, and a small hub of staff in Australia. Otherwise, we look to employ relevant staff remotely in the regions where our partners are based.

We are advertising this role for candidates based (and with the right to work) in the UK. We will also consider applications from candidates based in other locations where able to do so.

Applications

This role is open for applications immediately and we accept applications on a rolling basis - the closing date is Sunday 22 September but we do reserve the right to interview and appoint before then should we receive the right applications. If you are interested, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

Diversity & Inclusion

As an equal opportunities employer, FILE is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join FILE. We are committed to continually learning and improving our diversity and inclusion practices, which can best be done if we are as diverse as the people of the world we’re working to protect.