Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Adviser At Anti-Slavery International

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Adviser is critical to the delivery of our five-year strategy and offers the successful candidate opportunities for creativity and growth within a dynamic organisation, working across programmes, advocacy and campaigns teams.

1. Support teams to identify and evidence the impact of their work in line with our organisational and thematic strategies.

• Lead on building effective Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning systems across Anti-slavery’s programme, advocacy and campaigns work.
• Contribute to process of reviewing organisational KPIs (led by consultant) with a greater focus on impact, in line with the organisational strategy and operational plan for advocacy and programmes. Support programmes and advocacy team to submit quarterly data against agreed organisational KPIs, preparing quarterly KPI reports to the Board.
• Act as the day-to-day point of contact for all MEL enquiries, and be responsible for maintaining ASI’s database of organisational MEL data, developing and ensure consistent use of MEL tools across the organisation.
• Contribute to donor and internal reporting and to other organisational publications as required
• Ensure that collection and storage of MEL data is compliant with ASI data protection and safeguarding policies
• Induction of new staff in MEL and capacity building of existing programme staff in MEL as appropriate

2. Work directly with project staff and our implementing partners to design and use appropriate monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks and tools, strengthening MEL capacity within our own teams and our partner organisations.

• Support programme colleagues to develop MEL systems and tools for individual projects, which are practical and accessible to people who are not MEL experts, in order to increase effectiveness, demonstrate impact, and improve accountability to communities and stakeholders.
• Provide technical support and contextually relevant capacity building training on monitoring, evaluation and learning to programme staff and partners as required, including project visits as necessary.
• Contribute to the development of high-quality statutory funding applications, with a particular focus on the design of the project theory of change, monitoring frameworks, log frames and other MEL components of proposals.
• Advise programme colleagues on the management of mid-term and end-of-project evaluations in collaboration, including development of Terms of Reference.
• Lead on collation and dissemination of relevant tools and good practice around monitoring, evaluation and learning through ongoing sectoral engagement. Maintain a library of MEL training materials.
• Maintain close working relationships across all programmes and collaborate closely with our Fundraising and Communications team.

3. Provide advice to the wider organisation on developing and maintaining systems for generating, capturing and using learning and evidence to achieve our strategic goals

• Provide advice and contribute to the process of building/ strengthening an organisational learning culture in the context of the new organisational and thematic strategies.
• Support teams in developing systems for generating, capturing and using learning and evidence to achieve our strategic goals.

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