Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning - London, United Kingdom - De Beers Group of Companies

De Beers Group of Companies

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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**Company Description

Join us as a Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.**The Anglo American Foundation (AAF) was established in 2018/19 by merging the activities of the Anglo American Chairman's Fund (South Africabased entity) and the Anglo American Group Foundation to form a single Foundation operating as a single entity with a common strategy and set of trustees.

In July 2021 Anglo American committed to endowing the Foundation with a $100 million donation, significantly boosting the Foundation's ability to support progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

This donation presented an opportunity to redefine the Foundation's strategy, including its governance and operating model, to ensure it can deliver to an entirely new level.

Since receiving the donation, the Foundation has gone through a strategy review process to define its key strategic focus areas for the next seven to ten years.

While AAF remains aligned with the Anglo American purpose ("reimagining mining to improve people's lives") and geographical footprint, it will be distinct and independent from the company.

Additionally, AAF will move from being a passive grant-maker to an engaged, strategic grant-maker, focusing on long-term, system-level change, at a country/ regional level.

Anglo American Foundation's future strategic focus will be on
empowering youth to create sustainable and inclusive communities, through catalysing green value chains and building resilience.

Job Description:

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small team and lead our ambitions to enhance our understanding of the impact our work has for empowering young people. As the custodian of the Foundation's Theory of Change, charged with establishing and implementing the Foundation's Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) strategy and systems, this role will ensure the Foundation and its stakeholders have trusted data and insight to continually improve our work to achieve better outcomes for young people,enable us to effectively demonstrate and communicate our impact and establish the AAF as a credible foundation at the forefront of corporate philanthropy.

This role will provide leadership and expertise, establishing the Foundation's MEL strategy, implementing and overseeing MEL systems, setting standards and guiding colleagues, implementing partners and external evaluation partners on the design and development of measures, metrics and data systems that are rigorous and consistent.

Key Responsibilities include:

Work with Anglo American Foundation's management team to lead the evolution of the Foundation's approaches to monitoring, evaluation and learning to ensure we are able to demonstrate and communicate the impact of our programmes
Work with the Foundation's management team to inform planning processes, which includes gathering data, assessing progress to date, analysis of current context and opportunities, and identification of annual priorities
Design the performance assessment framework and process across the Foundation and for programmes to identify and track relevant, measurable, and strategic metrics and outcomes
Direct projects that gather feedback from key constituents, including grantees, Foundation staff, external partners (e.g., consultants), and community stakeholders
Shape and deliver the Foundation's approach and plans for MEL across the organisation including for programmes, communications and advocacy
Ensure the Foundation's Theory of Change remains relevant and is disseminated and embedded effectively across the Foundation
Work closely with colleagues to maintain and enhance appropriate systems, processes and tools to monitor, measure and demonstrate impact across all the foundations programme areas
Contribute to a culture of learning, inquiry, experimentation, understanding of and tolerance for risk, and a commitment to learning from failures
Engage and collaborate with relevant external stakeholders and Anglo American teams, including Social and Economic Development colleagues, to foster learning, develop best practice, share and gather intelligence, and ensure buy in to approaches across the Foundation and its founder
Qualifications
Extensive years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, preferably in philanthropy, policy research, think tanks, applied economics, public policy, and/or consulting
Graduate (or equivalent experience) in relevant disciplines
Track record of strong intellectual engagement, problem solving, and analytical skills
Capable of planning and thinking strategically, setting realistic goals and objectives, balancing multiple priorities, and managing project details
Demonstrated skills in both quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis methods
Enthusiasm for building a new MEL discipline from the ground up within an organization.
Experience of synthesizing learnings in a clear, concise, and compelling way,