UK PACT Regional MEL Manager

UK PACT Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Regional Manager – Asia

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Arup is recruiting for an experienced Regional Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Manager with a passion for tackling climate change to join our UK PACT team in Asia. The UK PACT programme aims to improve the effectiveness of key institutions (public, private and civil society) in partner countries so that they can deliver accelerated emission reductions and raise the ambition of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) targets. Specifically, the programme will deliver the following results:

An increase in the capacity and capability of partner institutions (national, sub-national and civil society) to deliver enhanced and accelerated climate actions; and an increase in in-country buy-in to urgently facilitate low-carbon development.

UK PACT is a complex, multi-country and multi-sector programme, which delivers impact through a combination of grant funding for longer-term capacity-building projects and the rapid mobilisation of short-term expertise for targeted skills and knowledge transfer.

Purpose of the position

The UK PACT Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Regional Manager will be responsible for managing the monitoring of results for the Asia region and aspects of learning across the relevant country and regional funds. The position will report to the UK PACT programme MEL Manager, and will also be expected to contribute to cross-programme MEL activities as needed. The position will be based in one of the UK PACT focus countries in the region [India, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia], with some travel expected.

The MEL Regional Manager will be responsible for the implementation of the monitoring and learning activities across all country funds in the region, as well as the separate ASEAN Green Transition Fund. They will lead the implementation of the UK PACT monitoring plan and learning framework, ensuring programme level guidance and tools are adapted and applied appropriately at the country (and regional) fund level. This will involve facilitating annual strategy testing and theory of change refresh sessions; ensuring that country fund MEL systems generate measurable results and impact that feed into programme level reporting; ensuring timely and high-quality reporting from each country fund; supporting learning and adaptation processes for decision making; and providing technical backstopping support to country teams.

Specifically, the UK PACT Asia Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Manager will:

The job Location – Gurugram and is a fixed term contract until March 2027 with the possibility of extension based on exceptional performance.

Monitoring & Learning Strategy Development, Technical Expertise and Implementation

·        With the support of the central UK PACT MEL Manager, adapt and apply programme level guidance and frameworks, including Theory of Change (ToC) and results framework (logframe), at the country (and regional fund) level, ensuring these reflect country fund level specificities and needs.

·        Lead facilitation of country and sector level ToC development sessions, and annual refreshes.

·        Drive and be ultimately responsible for quarterly and annual data collection, quality assurance and reporting of results from across relevant regional and country funds.

·        Advise UK PACT Implementing Partners (grantees) on project reporting (technical and results), ensuring reporting meets FCDO and programme requirements, providing a coordination and quality assurance function.

·        Assist UK PACT Implementing Partners and UK PACT team colleagues in country in monitoring and learning activities that include applying assessment tools, designing case studies, implementing capacity building strategies and providing training, assisting with data analysis and presentation, developing data-informed action plans and other technical assistance as requested.

·        Facilitate processes to ensure learning is identified and captured across all areas of the programme and fed back into strategic decision making to facilitate adaptive management.

·        Support in identifying and advising on the potential to extend, scale up or replicate successful projects, and enhance strategic portfolio development to deliver impact, through provision of relevant research, evidence and learning pieces.

Stakeholder Relationships

Maintain a strong working relationship with the client, working collaboratively to ensure MEL frameworks and systems are relevant and tailored to individual country and regional fund contexts, and providing insight into the delivery details of the programme in an open and transparent manner and provide a key support function to in-country teams for all MEL issues and bottlenecks.

Be responsible for flowing down monitoring and reporting excellence to grantees via the country teams, including provision of guidance, tools coaching and training where necessary to deliver MEL successfully.

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·        Demonstrable experience of 8-10 years in designing and managing MEL strategies, approaches and plans – including ToC and logframes – to enable and support adaptive management and learning in large climate and development programmes.

·        Technical understanding and knowledge of climate mitigation themes, including but not limited to energy, transport, low-carbon policy, nature-based solutions, and green finance. Strong experience in gathering, organising, and analysing large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data across multiple countries and sectors/intervention areas.

·        Demonstrated experience in knowledge management and dissemination.

·        Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills, including capacity development related to MEL approaches. Strong reporting skills, with proven ability to engage with and manage both donor client formal reporting and ad-hoc requests.

·        Excellent communication skills, including demonstrated ability to capture and communicate results and impact in a clear, compelling, and cogent manner. Knowledge and understanding of the local contexts in the priority countries, including socio-economic context and development challenges and priorities.

·        An ability to see both the big (strategic) picture, identifying opportunities for innovation and value addition for UK PACT, as well as keeping alert to programme delivery risks linked to the monitoring and learning aspect of the programme.

·        Highly collaborative and committed to close working and open communication with colleagues in post and in the UK, and other UK PACT partners. A high degree of personal resilience, flexibility and ability to work under evolving circumstance

·        Professional fluency in English, both written and spoken. Knowledge of other regional languages (Hindi, Thai, Vietnamese, Bahasa Indonesia) a bonus but not essential.

Shape your time

 At Arup, you’ll be a welcomed member of the team with opportunities to participate in cultural and social events with the local community (e.g. as a STEM ambassador) or by joining one of our staff networks which include, amongst others, for women, culture or LGBT+ people. You’ll have access to flexible hybrid working through the staggered start and finish times, working from home occasionally/as required.

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 Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.

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What we offer you

 At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

 We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. 

 You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve. 

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Our Application Process

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