Itad is a consultancy company providing technical expertise to international development programmes, projects and institutions. The work covers a range of sectors, including Climate Change, Private Sector Development, working within Fragile and Conflict affected states, Health, Governance and Social Protection and Livelihoods. Within the broad development sector, Itad is best known for its work in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). Our projects range from designing M&E systems for multi-million pound initiatives, to conducting long-term impact evaluations in multiple countries as well as providing strategic support to programmes. For more information see our website www.itad.com.
The successful candidate will be educated to postgraduate level with at least ten years' relevant experience. They should be willing to live and work in the Brighton and Hove area (UK).
Itad is a values based company, committed to ensuring that we carry our values through our everyday work. We attach great importance to maintaining a positive, friendly and supportive atmosphere within our office. You can read more about our values here.
Salary to be negotiated depending on experience, plus bonus and other benefits.
The role:
The purpose of this role is to lead and support the strategic, technical and managerial delivery of Itad’s Climate Change Theme. Part of the role will involve the further growth, management and delivery of a portfolio of climate change M&E-related assignments including Itad’s role in two headline projects – theDFID BRACED Knowledge Manager and the ICF Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL). Further information on these projects can be found below.
This is a technical role and proven experience of applying different development evaluation designs and methods, in the context of climate change adaptation, mitigation, food security, livelihoods, natural resource management, social protection or similar fields, as well as working in low income countries, are pre-requisites. The post holder should have significant experience of using a variety of evaluation approaches including quantitative and qualitative methods in development evaluations.
You will be able to develop strong working relationships with clients, partners and stakeholders and will have the ability to lead, manage and motivate others. Candidates should demonstrate confident communication and negotiation skills, commercial acumen and a proven ability to deal with staff, collaborators and partners from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures.
The post holder will work under the line management of Itad’s Associate Director and Climate Change Theme Leader.
To apply:
Application is by CV and covering letter by midday 29th February 2016. We would like the selected candidate to start as soon as possible. Only successful candidates will be contacted.
Job Description - Principal Consultant – Climate Change
Core Responsibilities:
The purpose of this role is to lead and support the strategic, technical and managerial delivery of Itad’s Climate Change Theme. This is a technical role and proven experience of applying different development evaluation designs and methods, in the context of climate change adaptation, mitigation, food security, livelihoods, natural resource management, social protection or similar fields, as well as working in low income countries, are pre-requisites.
Line Manager:
Itad’s Associate Director and Climate Change Theme Leader
Key responsibilities of this role:
1) Manage and lead the technical delivery of specific climate change M&E assignments being delivered by Itad (Approx. 60% of time):
Project Implementation – Technical:
- Provide technical M&E inputs to projects, either in the UK or overseas, as agreed with clients and Directors.
- Undertake assignments individually or as a leader or member of a team, to achieve a target annual turnover and gross profit in line with company targets.
- Provide technical M&E oversight, direction and quality assurance to the Climate Change Theme team across the portfolio of projects.
Project Implementation – Management:
- Manage and lead such projects that fall within the Climate Change Theme portfolio.
- Managing sub-contracted external UK and overseas-based consultants, partner organisations, and consortium members.
- Monitoring and managing the financial performance of projects under your management, in line with project budgets and financial targets.
- Liaising with accounts staff to ensure prompt purchase and sales ledger invoicing.
- Ensuring partners deliver to the standards expected by the client.
Project Acquisition:
- Guide the Business Development and Climate Change theme teams on a strategy for business development in the area of climate change M&E.
- Assess business leads identified by the Business Development team.
- Work with the Business Development team to respond to EOIs and prepare project proposals, including establishing project teams and consortia where appropriate.
2) Provide technical / methodological M&E advice to the Climate Change Theme team to support the delivery of Itad’s climate change assignments (Approx. 15-20% of time):
- In partnership with the Climate Change Theme Leader and Associate Director, undertake the on-going process and product quality assurance across the portfolio of climate change assignments, in accordance with Itad’s quality assurance procedures.
- Provide technical M&E, and particularly methodological, guidance and capacity building across the Climate Change Theme team to further enhance the high quality delivery of the portfolio of climate change assignments.
- On occasions, to undertake or oversee rapid inquiry / research on emerging fields of work to inform assignments or proposals – as well as to support Itad’s horizon scanning / market positioning activities.
3) Support and promote ‘thought leadership’ in climate change M&E through the generation and sharing of new knowledge (Approx. 15-20% of time):
- Drawing on experience from across the Climate Change Theme portfolio, support the generation, synthesis and sharing of new knowledge and learning on various aspects of climate change M&E in order to further raise Itad’s profile as a thought leader in the field.
- Work with Climate Change Theme team members and wider project teams and partners to co- generate and disseminate a range of climate change M&E knowledge products – through events and workshops, or through undertaking literature reviews, think-pieces and drafting other papers.
- Support the development of an internal ‘knowledge hub’ on climate change M&E that brings together learning from a range of assignments, supports the adoption of this knowledge across the field.
- Undertake coffee mornings, internal presentations or discussions, and play an active part in Itad’s Consultant’s Forums and other knowledge sharing fora.
4) Cross company working and professional development (Approx. 5-10% of time)
- Collaborate with other Itad staff in the general day-to-day running of the company
- Collaborate and support cross theme knowledge sharing activities
- Undertake professional development as agreed with your line manager, to ensure that your professional knowledge and skills are current and that you have clear and distinct expertise to offer on projects
- Maintain your CV and ensure that it describes sets of skills and experience that can be utilised on Itad projects
Skills and experience required:
- Masters in relevant subject area such as economics, statistics, evaluation, natural resource management, public policy or international development.
- Minimum ten years’ post-masters relevant experience.
- Technical expertise and experience in one or more of the following: climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, climate change policy, food security, livelihoods, natural resource management, social protection or similar, in the context of international development.
- Technical expertise of different approaches to evaluation design, such as theory-based, realist, experimental or quasi-experimental, and mixed method impact evaluations including experience of qualitative and / or quantitative data collection and analysis techniques (strongly preferred).
- A track record in managing and leading M&E assignments for a range of international clients, or as a staff member within a major aid agency or NGO.
- Ability to design monitoring and results reporting systems and/or evaluations, from overarching approach through to methods / tools of data collection and analysis. This may be quantitative (e.g. sampling; survey instrument design; statistical analysis; issues of bias) and/or qualitative (e.g. checklists; facilitation guides / training; purposive sampling; transcripts; coding; and qualitative analysis; issues of bias).
- Strong analytical, facilitation, presentation and writing skills.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills – e.g. proven ability to deal with staff, collaborators and partners from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures. Ideally, experience of approaches to knowledge uptake and lesson learning.
- Good network of professional contacts in the UK and overseas, and ability to network with partners and clients.
- Track record in writing successful proposals for different clients.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
- Proficiency in one or more of the other UN languages would be an advantage.
Benchmarks
Itad consultants are required to prepare annual work plans that include financial benchmarks for fee-earning and project management as well as objectives for professional development and collaborative working. You will be expected to work efficiently and effectively to achieve performance benchmarks that relate to your job.
Rewards
We offer a competitive remuneration package. Salary will be negotiable depending on experience and qualifications. We also provide matched stakeholder pension contributions, a performance related bonus, and attractive conditions of service.
Itad’s Climate Change portfolio
The threats posed by climate change are global and have the potential to reverse hard-fought development gains.We believe the transformative change needed to address these threats must be based on a robust understandingof what works and why.Our services range from evaluating the programmes and organisations responsible for delivering climateresilience, to designing innovative monitoring and indicator frameworks to assess transformative capacity.
We work to:
- Give those most affected by climate change a voice so that the unique knowledge they possess is heard and acted on,
- Define new frameworks to mainstream, monitor and capture the results of innovative adaptive and technological approaches to build resilience to climate change,
- Review and evaluate the performance of climate change projects, programmes and institutions so that lessons learned are fed back into future work and resources are allocated where they are most effective,
- Help everyone affected by and working to tackle climate change to plan, manage, and assess the impact of their work – development partners, policy makers, civil society, NGOs, philanthropic organisations, local communities.
The selected candidate for this position will be required to support the delivery of two headline projects within the Climate Change portfolio – the DFID BRACED Knowledge Manager and the ICF Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL). You will work with staff members across the company to deliver these projectS but specifically with Robbie Gregorowksi who leads with the Climate Change Theme, Dave Wilsonwho works on the BRACED project, Sarah Standley who works on the ICF MEL project and Clare Shaw who supports both projects.
DFID’s Building Resilience and Adapting to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) Programme DFID’s £140m Building Resilience and Adapting to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) Programme was launched in 2014 to respond to the changing magnitude and frequency of droughts, floods and cyclones and other climate extremes. The BRACED Programme aims to benefit an estimated 5 million people through grants to NGOs and their partners, to scale up proven technologies and practices in the Sahel and DFID focal countries at most risk.
Working with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Itad is leading the delivery of the M&E components for the BRACED Knowledge Manager (KM) and, with a consortium of global partners, helps BRACED deliver a sustained and transformational impact on people’s resilience beyond the communities directly supported by funded projects. Itad is responsible for leading all KM monitoring and evaluation activities. Our role is divided into two components. First, we generate knowledge through supporting BRACED Programme grantees with project monitoring and routine results reporting. Second, we are implementing research and evaluation activities at the programme, project and thematic level. The global focus of our work means that DFID, their focal countries and international partners will have access to shared knowledge about what works to strengthen resilience to climate extremes.
Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning from the International Climate Fund (ICF MEL)
Itad is a core partner in a consortium led by IMC Worldwide delivering multi-year, multi-country support to the monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) processes for the International Climate Fund. This complex evaluation is based around three components:
(i) Indicators: Complete development and testing of a set of robust key performance indicators (KPIs)
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