Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learnings Manager

Major Function
The Manager of Measurement and Impact will provide technical leadership in strengthening Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning within the Country Office. This position will be responsible for monitoring the life cycle of the Office Strategic Plan, from strategic planning and implementation to monitoring and adaptive management.

The role will be responsible for the design of the Strategy PMEL framework, as well as supporting the development of the PMEL frameworks for programs/projects and grants, ensuring their alignment with the office strategy, in line with WWF’s Network's Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management (PPMS) and ensuring compliance with the WWF International Country Office Strategy and Impact Monitoring policy.

The role will play a pivotal role in leveraging data insights from monitoring and evaluation to advise CO Senior Management in areas such as evidence-based management, adaptive management, cost-effectiveness design and management, accountability, knowledge management and learning initiatives. Finally, the role will champion professional excellence and provide thought leadership, to ensure the proficiency of the PMEL team and will conduct routine monitoring of the PMEL capacity in the office, to ensure staff is highly skilled and able to uphold network level or INT COM level PMEL standards and systems.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Planning

  • Manage the overall process of developing and updating the Office Strategic Plan and annual work plans in line with WWF’s Network’s Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management (PPMS).

  • Manage the costing of the strategy monitoring and evaluation plan, ensuring the inclusion of the budget for all monitoring activities in the office, including Conservation activities, ESSF, Risk, QA and others.

  • Manage and provide technical guidance in the development of strategic and project levels Theory of Change, logical frameworks and PMEL frameworks according to PPMS standards and ensure that these are well documented.

  • Provide technical advice and facilitate the process of developing clear and measurable goals, outcomes and indicators for the Office strategy, programs/projects and grants, while ensuring alignment to the Country, regional and secretariat strategy.

  • Manage communications of the PMEL strategy monitoring framework to all staff and ensure that these are effectively implemented.

  • Ensures the development of a structured PMEL framework for the Office Strategic Plan and all associated projects, inside the WWF Int PMEL solution.

  • Ensures the utilization of the WWF International PMEL solution for project and programme design, in compliance with WWF International standards and policies.

• Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

  • Manages the collection, collation and analysis of quality data to inform progress and for adaptive management.

  • Ensures the utilization of the WWF International PMEL solution for data management and reporting, in compliance with WWF International standards and policies.

  • Guides the review of information and data collected to ensure it is of quality, accurate and timely to inform decisions.

  • Manage evaluations and reviews done by the country office, including advising on the appropriateness of approaches and methodologies.

  • Ensures adherence to Network-wide, secretariat and Country Office PMEL-specific policies, standards and protocols.

  • Manage the internal and external reporting efforts in the Country office as well as their consolidation and or synthesis. e.g., technical reports, impact reports, donor reports and other information from projects and programmes.

  • Work in close collaboration with the ESSF Manager and Regional PMEL Coordinator to integrate the ESSF framework and monitoring needs inside the annual monitoring plan of the office.

• Learning and Adaptive Management

  • Promotes a culture of results-based adaptive management in the Country Office, landscape and project levels, including developing a CO learning agenda.

  • Active participation in the regional, INT, and network-level PMEL CoP for sharing and learning.

  • Manages the process of consolidating and synthesizing learning to inform adaptive management.

  • Facilitates quarterly review of progress against the annual work plan milestones.

  • Set up mechanisms to allow integration of lessons learned in programs and projects.

  • Guides the development of dashboards and other business intelligence products to support learning and tracking progress toward KPIs for the Senior Management team to track progress and inform decision-making.

  • Promotes and facilitate dissemination of results, knowledge sharing and collaboration for continuous learning in the country office.

  • Monitors the implementation of recommendations from evaluation and learning review reports.

  • Supports coordination and collaboration with research, academic and other institutions in developing publications and contributing to the conservation knowledge.

  • Inform the annual budget for PMEL to ensure the rigorous management of the office’s PMEL and that it has all the resources required to meet its objectives.

  • Engages the relevant fundraising functions in the office, to ensure PMEL activities are accurately reflected in the budgets and during the grant’s and project's designs, maximising opportunities for cost recovery.

  • Work closely with the COM Impact team, to develop and implement a PMEL capacity enhancement, to ensure PMEL, Project management and data analytics capabilities for staff in the office are up to standards.

Profile

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in natural resource management, environment, conservation management, bioregional planning, social sciences, development studies, Statistics, Monitoring and Evaluation or in relevant fields.

• 7 years of practical experience in PMEL methodologies, project cycle management, Quality Assurance, Financial Management, Data analysis and report writing, of which 2+ years should be at the managerial level.

• Advanced training in Monitoring and Evaluation and experience with Result-based management. Familiarity with PPMS or Open Standards would be considered an advantage.

• Advanced and proven experience with data analytics and utilizing monitoring and evaluation data for impact reporting.

• Knowledge of using Microsoft suite tools (word, excel etc.) is a must. Experience using more advanced tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, R, Python, etc. is an advantage.

• Experience of using data collection tools, e.g., KOBO, ODK, Survey123, etc.

• Experience in applying Knowledge Management and learning principles.

• Familiar with conservation and natural resource management issues in Mongolia is an advantage.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Strong skills in four essential roles of a marketer: Strategic thinker, innovator, integrator and implementer.

• Ability to liaise effectively with individual and corporate sector donors and good communication and negotiation skills.

• Excellent inter-personal skills, including the ability to develop and maintain strong relationships within WWF Network and, as required, with external stakeholders.

• Strong leadership and team building skills.

• Adheres to WWF’s values, which are: Knowledgeable, Optimistic, Determined and Engaging.

Working Relationships

• Internal

  • Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or Country Director, Conservation Director, Resource Acquisition manager, and Project coordinators – Works closely with the COM Impact team to ensure compliance with WWF PMEL standards and policies.

• External

  • Donors – Ensure that PMEL for all projects meets donor standards.

  • Partners – Make sure that projects implemented by partners meet WWF and donor PMEL standards and policies.

  • Interacts with entities outside the country as agreed with the Conservation Director and Country Director.