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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Programme Roles)

The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is setting up a new team to support our diplomatic posts across the Indo-Pacific region with their bilateral project and programme management.  This is to raise the quality and capability of our network’s programme management, in line with the FCDO’s Programme Operating Framework (PrOF). The team will be based in the British Embassy in Jakarta and the British High Commission in New Delhi to cover the range of time zones of the region.  It will provide support to posts around the Indian Ocean region as well as China, North East and South East Asia and the Pacific.  It will help with procurement, programme and financial management and monitoring and evaluation. In a consultation we ran with our Indo-Pacific diplomatic network earlier this year, between 10-20 posts indicated they needed support with this.

The wider Indo-Pacific Regional Department designs and delivers major trans-boundary regional programming and provides technical policy advice. The Team delivers major multi-year Official Development Assistance programmes in three main areas: Climate, Economic Development and Social Development. The team is a mix of technical advisors (focused on the Indo-Pacific), a policy lead, and Programme Managers. We support the delivery of HMG’s Indo-Pacific strategy, as set out in the UK Government’s 2021 ‘Integrated Review’. The team includes three Hubs based in Delhi, London, and ASEAN hub based in Jakarta.

We are looking for a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Adviser who will be based in the British Embassy in Jakarta to:

  1. Lead on monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) for all planned ASEAN development programmes to ensure effective programme delivery. The role will provide MEL support to all programme managers of the ASEAN programmes. Support will include shaping and defining MEL expectations for all planned ASEAN programmes  in their upcoming planning or business cases and ensuring that MEL objectives are successfully achieved. 50%
  2. Deliver MEL support to a set number of UK Embassies and High Commissions across the Indo-Pacific region. This will contribute to the new IPRD Post Support Team (sitting across Jakarta/Delhi) supporting our diplomatic posts in the Indo-Pacific region with their bilateral programme management. 50%

Roles and responsibilities:

We consider monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) fundamental to successful programme delivery; to drive evidence-based decision making; and to broaden the UK’s (and global) evidence base for development interventions. At FCDO, the overall MEL activity involves: designing qualitative and quantitative systems to track progress of our programmes (monitoring); using the monitoring data to learn, adapt, and improve effectiveness of programmes (learning); and assessing whether or not our programmes succeed in achieving desired impact (evaluations) to improve future programming. In this role the jobholder will work closely with IPRD MEL team leader to:

  1. Support the Head of Development, ASEAN Jakarta, to deliver MEL needs of our ASEAN prorgammes. This includes working with programme teams to develop  programme theories of change; setting out and implementing monitoring strategies for all programmes that will track progress against stated objectives over the lifetime of each ASEAN programme.
  2. As part of the Post Support Team, support programme teams in designated smaller Indo-Pacific posts in developing robust theories of change and articulating programme results at the business case stage; and then during programme inception phases in developing, and agreeing, with implementing partners MEL processes for programme lifetime.
  3. Throughout the implementation phase of all programmes, provide clear guidance to programme teams on best monitoring practices, ensuring data quality, and actively engage in annual review processes to ensure progress is reported correctly.
  4. Proactively engage with FCDO’s MEL networks, central teams, Statistics and Evaluation Cadres, to draw on best-practice approaches and adapt them to our requirements

PLEASE NOTE: due to the dynamic nature of our work, aspects of this role may change over time. The post-holder will need to be flexible and willing to adapt to evolving responsibilities.

We are looking for a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Adviser who has experience of managing research/evaluation projects of significant scale. You should be able to ensure quality of results and that relevant legal, ethical, procurement, and quality assurance practice is followed. The successful candidate  will be proactive, take initiative, and have:

Essential on arrival:

  • Fluent spoken & written English.
  • A strong background in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, ideally designing monitoring/results frameworks for development interventions in multiple sectors and some background in programme evaluation.
  • Strong communicator with evidence of excellent written and presentation skills.
  • Able to help others make good use of social research/evaluation evidence.
  • The ability to work independently and be able to build strong relationships.
  • Effective team player and ability to work effectively within and across teams. Experience in working remotely with teams and colleagues is desirable.
  • Proven ability to deliver tasks at pace.
  • An ability to grasp technical M&E issues and translate them into clear and pragmatic advice and/or programmatic responses.

Desirable:

Experience or academic background in designing research methods (Quantitative or Qualitative), with an eye on developing indicators for measuring change in concepts such as resilience and adaptation to climate change, improvement in health, education etc

Qualification

A degree in related fields (social sciences) with a minimum 4-years of relevant experience

Technical Competencies

MEL Advisory roles in FCDO function within the Evaluation Cadre—one of the thirteen advisory cadres which are professional bodies within FCDO. Each cadre has its Technical Competency Framework, which defines competencies in which candidates should demonstrate expertise. Applicants to this role are expected to demonstrate:

  • A thorough knowledge of research/evaluation methodology, method, and the latest techniques, including main quantitative, qualitative and evaluation methods (at e.g. post graduate level) with at least two years of applied experience. Is up to date with methodological developments.

For more information on competencies required at SEO/A2L level, please refer to relevant section in FCDO Evaluation & Government Social Research (GSR) Cadre Technical Competency Framework.

PLEASE NOTE: The candidate CV needs to demonstrate they have undertaken similar roles and activities as shown in the Key Responsibilities section above.

The job-holder would be expected to exhibit the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office’s International Competencies in this role, notably:

  • Build and maintain cooperative and productive relationships with an effective range of external contacts. Use the network professionally and sensitively to the benefit of the UK
Making Effective Decisions, Managing a Quality Service, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together
25 September 2022
Senior Executive Officer (SEO)
Full-time, Fixed term, with possibility of renewal
39.5
Asia Pacific
Indonesia
Jakarta
British Embassy
1
IDR
37,961,311
31 October 2022

The British Embassy/Consulate offers a competitive remuneration package including:

  • Annual leave entitlement of 25 days per year
  • Medical benefit (medical insurance)
  • Access to extensive learning and development opportunities

MEL Adviser is a considered a technical role within FCDO. Candidates who secure a role that is considered specialist/technical, may be required to affiliate to the relevant specialist network, if not already a member. To this end, the successful candidate will have learning and development opportunities, besides other L&D opportunities offered by FCDO.

No accommodation or relocation expenses are payable in connection with this position.  All candidates must be legally able to work and reside in the country of the vacancy with the correct visa/work permit status or demonstrate eligibility to obtain the relevant permit. 

Employment offers are subject to successful clearance of pre-employment checks. Staff recruited locally by the British Embassy Jakarta is subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local employment law. In relation to this, the successful candidate will need to arrange for his/her own Police Certificate.

Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary may have their salaries reduced by the equivalent local income tax amount.

Please note that the deadline for applications is 23:55 on the day mentioned in the above field “Application deadline”.

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