Senior Measurement, Evaluation and Learning Manager

**Job Title**: Senior Measurement, Evaluation and Learning Manager (Internal title: MEL Orchestrator)
**Reports to/team**: Learning Orchestrator/The Hub
**Contract**: Permanent

**Level**:Advanced
Please refer to our Capability Framework
**Salary**: Competitive for Not-for-Profit Organisation
**Location**: Poland, Belgium, Italy, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Slovenia, Austria, Spain
**Start Date**:As soon as possible

ABOUT US

At Climate KIC, we are wholeheartedly committed to building a diverse and representative team and an inclusive workplace that values different life experiences and perspectives, and we encourage personal development, learning and growth.

Climate KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Community) is Europe’s foremost climate innovation initiative. We understand that global temperature rise is exceeding 1.5C and this demands unprecedented change. It requires new social dynamics, ways of doing business, capital flows, policymaking, economic models, and new ways of living. That is why our mission is to leverage the power of systems innovation to transform whole places, industries and value chains by 2030, working across sectors to develop and scale ambitious programmes. Climate KIC’s strategy 2024-2030, Transformation, with Urgency, is available here.

Climate KIC operates as a not-for-profit foundation working through public-private partnership, wielding both public and private funding. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Amsterdam, we orchestrate a community of more than 150 organisations including large corporations and SMEs, municipal and regional governments, universities and research institutes, as well as non-governmental organisations and civil society actors.

Climate KIC leads the implementation of the European Union’s Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities and the launch pilot of the Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change, both with the objective of catalysing rapid and deep transformation on a large scale, creating the precedent and economic transition conditions for demonstration, learning, capacity building, fast followership and investment. Achieving the EU Cities Mission will mean avoided scope 1 and 2 emissions alone of an estimated 0.7GT CO2e between now and 2040.

Climate KIC has a Remote-First approach, where colleagues work remotely from home based in one of the countries where we have a branch or employing entity (and can work out of local offices or co-working seats, where they exist). We meet at our local offices to exchange and connect and use online collaboration tools to work with each other and with our community. On occasion, we meet in person as teams, and once per year as an organisation.

As a mission-driven organisation dedicated to climate transformation, we consider the climate impact of our own actions, for example travel, catering, or IT equipment.

**PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**

Climate KIC has been progressing our strategy by taking a portfolio approach informed by Sensemaking at different levels. Against this backdrop, our small central Measurement, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Team plays a pivotal role in helping us understand if we are doing things right and doing the right things. We actively pursue innovative approaches to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning to assess our progress, support review and implementation of our strategy, and help us reach the climate goals we have set. The central MEL Team is part of The Hub, an interconnected team spanning Portfolio, Community, Policy, Fundraising and Partnerships, Enabling Services and Operations as well as Communications, MEL and Learning. The Hub seeks to be a catalyst for systemic impact, ensuring Climate KIC operates as more than the sum of its parts.

The Senior MEL Manager (internally referred to as the MEL Orchestrator) is responsible for implementing our evolving organisational MEL Framework, ensuring our MEL practices, standards and MEL outputs are fit-for-purpose and user-oriented. Being actively involved in the organisational Portfolio Sensemaking process, the role holder will be expected to synthesise and feed forward insights and emerging signals from MEL work in our portfolio in appropriate ways - in collaboration with other MEL colleagues -, and ensure that we continue to adjust our MEL practice to keep it fit-for-purpose and user-oriented. Central MEL tasks are currently divided across two positions but with close links to other delivery teams that require both guidance and an open ear for feedback.

You will also collaborate closely with Climate KIC's Board and the organisation’s executive, operational and strategic leadership. You will act as a key focal point for internal MEL co-ordination, driving integration of MEL practices in everything we do, convening others on MEL-adjacent issues where appropriate, while advising on cross-cutting evaluative exercises and evaluation innovation. While much of the work of this role is focussed on internal audiences, there are close linkages with ou