The purpose of the job:

This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering UK’s objectives in Ethiopia including the embassy’s Country Plan.  You will help to set strategic direction and drive FCDO’s performance and innovation in the UK’s largest regular bilateral development programme in the world.  You will play a key role in supporting the implementation of the FCDO wide and the British Embassy Ethiopia’s strategy for results, evaluation and evidence.

British Embassy Ethiopia’s  portfolio covers some of the major challenges of our time, including humanitarian support, health, education, WASH, economic growth and good governance.  Your role will be to define and refine the embassy’s approach to  results, evidence and evaluation, and to build M&E capability across the office.  In addition, you will work closely with other HMG partners, the Ethiopian Government, donors and delivery partners, gaining a full and all rounded experience.

The role sits in British Embassy Ethiopia’s Programme Development Excellence (PDEL) Team, in the M&E branch of the team. PDEL is responsible for coordinating coherent delivery of all of the embassy’s programming, maximising VFM and synergies across the portfolio while promoting excellence. It leads on financial, commercial and risk management oversight, and monitoring and evaluation. It is a key element of the embassy’s set up to deliver UK’s strategy in Ethiopia. 

You will report to the Team Leader and will also work closely with other Team Leaders of ODA delivery teams, the Development Director and Deputy and Deputy Head of Mission, advisers, Programme Managers and senior leaders. You will be responsible for line managing an HEO programme and results manager. Coaching and mentoring colleagues on programme delivery is also an essential part of the job.

Roles and responsibilities:

In this role, you will be responsible for driving excellence in results and M&E areas in the British Embassy’s portfolio. Key responsibilities include:

Results Management:

• Country Business Plan (CBP) results: Maintain the mission wide results framework, tracking the achievement of outcomes. Support the TL of PDEL, Development Director and DHM to facilitate good discussions and strategic decision making in different governance bodies in the embassy
• Business Case (BC) Development: Proactively support teams to develop and update their Theory of Change for projects based on evidence available internally and externally. Ensure that appropriate/ practical M&E approaches are incorporated in the design of BCs.
• Log-frames (LFs): Support the development LFs at BC stage, considering inclusion of appropriate results, indicators, baseline values, milestones, and targets. Promote timely updating of LFs, ahead of reviews. Provide a challenge function to programme teams on the LFs, data and evidence used for the results and scoring of achievements in reviews.
• Project Reviews: Input and quality assurance of the office Annual Reviews (AR) and Project Completion Reviews (with primary focus on output reporting) before being submitted to the Development Director.

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL)

• Monitoring: Build the capability of teams and partners to maintain MEL systems that meet our internal requirements. Participate in regular field visits to enhance our internal monitoring, review of partner organisations technical reporting to validate against data reports, etc. Support the development and implementation of third-party monitoring and beneficiary feedback mechanisms (e.g., Partner Voice) and disseminate lessons learned to the mission.
• Evaluation support: co-design evaluations, supporting the preparation of Terms of references (ToRs), reviewing bids, inception reports, data collection processes and final reports. Support the development of a communication approach for evidence findings.
• Promote active lesson learning: Lead and contribute to the learning agenda through the design and implementation of a systemic way of documenting and disseminating lessons learnt (e.g., from ARs). Highlight most significant change stories and good practices internally and externally and help increase mission wide knowledge. Promote and build capacity for the use of research and adaptive learning within our portfolio and ensure learning is mainstreamed at all levels.
  

Statistics Support:

• Promote use of data for key decision making: Collaborate with staff and partners to ensure that planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning systems capture and transmit data according to standards, definitions, and processes.
• Support teams in the review and consolidation of monitoring data for reporting against the log-frame and performance indicators for mission reporting and internal programme reviews.
• Provide support to the mission on the use of national and international statistics within the country portfolio and projects.
• Engage with partners on key statistical needs, including national surveys  and Census (plus quality assurance of any project support provided).
• Conduct due diligence on the quality of data from project partners and work with them to seek improvements and alternatives as needed. Maintaining key relations with the statistical community and promoting the collection and analysis of key data to inform wider programming.
• Act as key point of contact to the East Africa Research Hub and research CMPs with an Ethiopia country footprint
• Liaise with the Statistics cadre and Evaluation network, representing British Embassy , Addis Ababa in internal discussions, including influencing HQ’s thinking in key areas. Distribute documents and best practices produced by the cadre/network and cascade new developments.

Resources managed:

The post holder will be responsible for line managing an HEO programme and results manager.

• Qualification: Applicants should have a Masters Degree in Statistics, Programme Management or in a similar field relevant to this role.
• Work Experience: A minimum of 7 years’ experience, preferably in the aid sector/ development agencies.

Language requirements: 

Language:  English and Amharic

Level of language required:  Fully-operational