MEAL Officer

Location - Mainly remote, with the ability to travel into London required, and some national and potentially international travel (2-4 weeks per year)

The new role of MEAL Officer will undertake high-quality data management and analysis to produce key learnings on the outcomes of our client’s grantmaking and other programmatic activity, as well as leading system improvements for the evolving monitoring, evaluation and learning framework in collaboration with global colleagues.

Providing support to the emerging global Learning function, the role will support the delivery of learning activities across the network to develop clear briefs, learnings and findings that can be used by other functions, including the Communications and Philanthropic Partnerships teams, to strengthen the organisation’s external and internal engagement and knowledge sharing activities.

This position currently sits within the UK Program Support function, and will integrate closely with the existing global Program function, as well as with the planned Learning function (in development).

Major duties and responsibilities:

• Provide support to the Programmes and Learning functions to ensure high-quality analysis and reporting from grantee data across the growing grantmaking portfolio.
• Analyse grantmaking and other programmatic activity against a pre-defined set of indicators as set out in GGF’s current Monitoring & Evaluation framework, including generating reports for donor-funded grantmaking.
• Use a range of methodologies and tools such as data visualisations, written briefs and summary reports to provide qualitative and quantitative data analysis and insights to colleagues across the organisation, including senior leadership, Programmes, Operations, Communications and Philanthropic Partnerships.
• Contribute to global programme strategy development and support advisory boards with data analysis to assist with advisory board strategy development:
• Making recommendations for the UK and/or global organisation on MEAL infrastructure, ensuring tools are fit for purpose and appropriate to context through review and revision:
• Work with Programmes colleagues to understand barriers to grantee reporting; developing creative solutions to track grantee outcomes and long-term change.
• Data entry of all UK grants made for audited accounts, and annual analysis and data visualizations for audited accounts, and global analyses for the annual report.

Position Specifications:

• Commitment to a value-based intersectional framework and its implications for organizational practices and principles of anti-oppression.
• Significant relevant experience in a similar role undertaking monitoring, evaluation, learning and data analysis in a charitable, environmental, development, social justice, feminist, gender, human rights organisation, and/or grantmaking organisation.
• A strong track record in data collection, monitoring and analysis, with good working knowledge of a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, tools and systems, and in using this information to evaluate and recommend adaptations, and in reporting.
• Higher-level qualifications/certification in a relevant field, post-graduate qualification (e.g. MSc, PhD) preferred, particularly in the social sciences and/or use of mixed method approaches
• Author of MEAL-related reports, either organisational reports or academic publications
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and improve the process of data collection, analysis and reporting.
• Demonstrated experience in managing datasets, databases, programming, and other analysis software.
• Demonstrated capacity to think strategically, innovatively, and analytically, with expertise in complex problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking skills, displays good judgment.
• Strong expertise in the use of various software and a high level of computer literacy (MS Office Suite, Google Apps, instant messaging, and virtual team collaboration software such as Trello, Zoom, Slack, SmartSimple, SalesForce, Raiser’s Edge, and/or other donor and grants management systems).

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This is a fast-moving process, and applications will be sent across on a rolling basis, please apply using your CV to avoid disappointment.