Main purpose of the role

This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned professional – passionate about driving development to be more effective, equitable, and efficient through evidence and identifying best practice – to join CIFF and help shape and drive evidence, measurement and evaluation (EME).

The role of the EME Manager is to ensure that CIFF’s investments are informed by a robust evidence base, are designed to achieve tangible impact consistent with CIFF’s vision, and have effective measurement and evaluation systems. The EME Manager will be a member of the EME team and will work closely with the sector teams working on issues of Child Protection and Child Health Development.

Role’s responsibilities

Evaluation portfolio management

• Manage analysis and research on specific projects and sector trends, as required, to support the team and related EME trends determining future strategic priorities and setting operational plans.
• Support the EME Director and team in the organisation, coordination, documentation and professional presentation of EME outputs for the strategy and planning process.
• Work with members of the Finance team to coordinate and contribute to budget forecasting budget and disbursement for programming for EME team, aligned with organizational strategic and accountability priorities.
• Draft Terms of Reference for hiring evaluation agencies, and lead on agency shortlisting and selection

Impact measurement and evidence generation

• Commission, manage, and quality assure third party evaluations of CIFF investments in specific sectors, including advising on study design, survey tools and impact findings.
• Undertake evidence synthesis on key sectoral problem statements to provide evidence and data informed insights on programme design and roll-out.
• Analyse large scale monitoring and evaluation data from programme partners to assess programme performance and provide timely insights.
• Ensure adherence to sector best practices in ethical data management and storage across full portfolio of evaluation.

Sector knowledge and profile-building

• Ensure CIFF remains current with best practice and trends in EME approaches and developments within its portfolio areas;
• Provide technical advice on the accuracy, robustness and applicability of evidence to support the development and ongoing delivery of investments within the team Programme portfolio.
• Drive effective dissemination of evidence and data, where findings from CIFF investments are used to influence regional and global policy and practice;
• Support and manage EME capacity development for the CIFF team portfolio, including identifying gaps within grantee organisations and designing support programmes to resolve these.
• Support the uptake of innovative approaches and technology to monitor, evaluate and report on the impact of CIFF’s investments;

Stakeholder and partner management

• Represent CIFF EME and manage relationships with implementation and evaluation partners (organisations and consultants), especially in Asia, in a supportive and pragmatic way;
• Proactively maintain external networks with subject matter experts in the measurement and evaluation communities, with attention to Asia, to ensure CIFF’s thinking and decision-making is shaped by the most up-to-date insights and research.
• Work and travel across multiple time zones on a regular basis.

Key working relationships

• CIFF Board members
• Other CIFF teams – particularly EME and functional teams (e.g. legal, HR, finance)
• Global partners and stakeholders – e.g. DFID, World Bank, USAID et al
• International charities and NGOs – e.g. Gates Foundation, Save the Children, Oxfam et al
• National governments and local NGO partners in priority geographies
• Research and academic institutions active within sector specialism

Requirements

Skills & Experience

• Demonstrable experience in analysis and due diligence; policy, planning and programme delivery, including field experience, all within the development sector
• Knowledge of the evidence bases pertaining to programme design and implementation, and belief in the importance of evidence-based decision making
• A strong quantitative background, with an in-depth understanding of data systems and analytics, study design and implementation, including quantitative and qualitative approaches, sampling, and statistical analysis
• Strong working knowledge of impact measurement and programme monitoring and evaluation
• Demonstrable expertise in managing evaluations and commissioning research – from finding and engaging monitoring & evaluation providers to managing activities and relationships with them
• Strong background in using a statistical package such as R, Stata, or similar software. Experience with GIS and/or BI packages desirable.
• An innovative thinker with a pragmatic and solution-oriented mindset
• Exposure to natural language processing or sentiment analysis of data desirable
• Demonstrable experience of working and influencing at senior levels, especially in the use of evidence to impact policy level decisions
• Ability to analyse an organisation’s strength of management, vision and adaptive capacity. Ability to recruit, guide, influence and/or advise management teams to effectively implement programmes
• Experience in supporting capacity building for evidence collection and use, system development, and communication, including of programmatic staff and/or national stakeholders and government ministries desirable
• Experience working within government systems and/or experience influencing the policies of government agencies, private sector organizations or donor organisations
• Effectively champions and promotes causes – credible and professional, they always present the Foundation’s programmes in a compelling way to engage the audience
• Skilled in relationship building and strengthening; able to influence others and work collaboratively, uniting groups with a shared purpose
• English is CIFF’s business language – we expect all of our people to display outstanding verbal and written communication skills across all aspects of their role
• Capacity to work in a range of cultural and socio-economic contexts, adapting style and approach appropriately and in a culturally sensitive manner to maximise effectiveness
• IT proficiency (most specifically in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• A proven self-starter, who works with pace and resilience

Benefits

Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a generous benefits package here at CIFF that includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Annual leave – 25 days per annum. Increasing by 1 day after each year of service, to a maximum of 30 days.
• Bonus – CIFF currently operates a discretionary bonus scheme.
• Training allowance
• Wellbeing allowance
• Life insurance
• Medical insurance

Please submit your application on or before 10 April 2023.