University of Glasgow
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Job Purpose
This maternity cover role represents an exciting opportunity for an experienced M&E specialist to make a leading contribution to the University of Glasgow’s UKRI-NERC-funded £10.2 million programme ‘GALLANT – Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation’, in partnership with Glasgow City Council: https://gla.ac.uk/gallant.
GALLANT is trialling new sustainable solutions to the city’s key environmental challenges, providing a whole-systems approach that considers the impacts of the programme’s interventions on policy, public health, wellbeing, and the economy. GALLANT aims to deliver the social priorities of the UN Sustainable Development Goals while remaining within the planetary boundaries of a 1.5°C world, using doughnut economics as a framework.
The post-holder will coordinate strategic planning and progression of monitoring and evaluation of GALLANT. The programme’s place-based approach requires co-production and co-evaluation with local communities and other stakeholders; the post-holder will therefore work closely with the Research Associate in Innovative Methods for Co-Evaluating Collaborative Community Practices (Workstream 2: Community Collaboration), and alongside central University, College-level and UKRI-NERC impact officers. They will also work closely with the GALLANT Communications Officer to ensure that M&E and Communications activities work together to achieve, record and promote impact.
The successful candidate will have the experience and knowledge to tailor a range of evaluation methods to the unique requirements of GALLANT, enabling continuous learning to be applied to the programme’s development. They will be able to manage quantitative and qualitative data, and have strong analytical skills to apply findings in a higher education and local authority context. They will also have excellent communication, leadership and partnership working skills, and the ability to effectively manage their workload while delivering to fixed deadlines.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
1. To develop and coordinate a strategic, programme-level monitoring and evaluation protocol to enable work package and workstream teams to create and implement their individual M&E plans.
2. To coordinate a cross-programme monitoring and evaluation working group to carry out M&E activities, comprised of representatives from GALLANT’s work packages and workstreams.
3. To advise on relevant M&E input to reporting requirements of the University, Council and funder UKRI-NERC, including future University REF submissions.
4. To represent GALLANT on M&E activities within the UKRI-NERC Changing the Environment Programme.
5. To be an active member of the GALLANT Central Management Team, liaising, communicating and working with other Team members to deliver on GALLANT’s priorities.
6. To undertake any other relevant duties as required.
Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Knowledge / Qualifications
Essential:
A1 Either: Ability to demonstrate the competencies required to undertake the duties associated with this level of post having acquired the necessary knowledge and skills in a similar or number of different roles.
Or: Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework level 9, (Ordinary Degree, Scottish Vocational Qualification level 4), or equivalent (including professional accreditation with relevant formal training), and experience of personal development in a similar or related role(s).
A2 In-depth knowledge and understanding of a range of evaluation theories, designs and approaches.
Desirable:
B1 Knowledge and understanding of programme monitoring and evaluation in a higher education, local authority, or similar setting.
B2 Knowledge and understanding of sustainability in relation to environmental issues and/or related social and political contexts.
B3 Detailed knowledge of one or more areas of academic research that relate to environmental sustainability.
B4 Knowledge and understanding of whole-systems approaches, doughnut economics, and/or similar theoretical frameworks.
B5 Knowledge of higher education grant funder guidelines for monitoring and evaluation.
B6 A formal monitoring and evaluation qualification.
Skills
Essential:
C1 Excellent qualitative and quantitative data gathering, analysis and presentation skills.
C2 Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to lead cross-disciplinary groups effectively.
C3 Analytical and problem-solving skills.
C4 Organisational skills – both short-term deadline driven and longer term involving multiple conflicting deadlines and coordination across multiple organisational units and external stakeholders.
C5 Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate to a diverse range of stakeholders in different sectors and at multiple levels of government.
C6 Highly developed IT skills, including Microsoft Office applications and data management and analysis platforms.
C7 Ability to exercise initiative and judgement and work independently but also as part of a team.
C8 Ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing environments.
Experience
Essential:
E1 Experience in project or programme monitoring and evaluation.
E2 Experience of recording, processing, analysing and presenting data for a diverse range of audiences.
E3 Experience of planning and progressing work activities within professional guidelines and policies, using initiative and independent judgement.
Desirable:
F1 Experience in monitoring and evaluation on a large-scale programme or project.
F2 Experience in monitoring and evaluation in an academic research, local authority or third sector setting.
F3 Experience in a role that includes co-production and/or co-evaluation with local communities.
F4 Experience in using and developing Theories of Change to support and drive evaluation.
F5 Experience working in a cross-sectoral environment (including government, local authority, academic, third sector or business).
F6 Experience working in an inter-, multi- or cross-disciplinary environment.
F7 Experience working in an area related to environmental sustainability.
F8 Experience with complexity-appropriate evaluation approaches.
Terms and Conditions
Salary will be Grade 7, £39,347 – £44,263 per annum pro rata.
This post is part time (17.5 hours per week) and fixed term for up to 12 months or until the substantive postholder returns.
As part of Team UofG you will be a member of a world changing, inclusive community, which values ambition, excellence, integrity and curiosity.
As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
1 A warm welcoming and engaging organisational culture, where your talents are developed and nurtured, and success is celebrated and shared.
3 A flexible approach to working.
We believe that we can only reach our full potential through the talents of all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Applications are particularly welcome from across our communities and in particular people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented within the University. Read more on how the University promotes and embeds all aspects of equality and diversity within our community
https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/
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