Project Manager, Monitoring Evaluation and Learning

**Job Title: NetZeroCities** Project Manager, Monitoring Evaluation and Learning
**Team**: MEL Team & Cities Team
**Contract**: initial 12-month contract with the possibility of renewal

**Level**:Advanced
Please refer to our Capability Framework
**Salary**: Competitive for Not-for-profit organisation

**Location**: Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Slovenia, UK

**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.

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

NetZeroCities is an initiative launched as part of the European Green Deal and directly linked to the European Commission Mission for Climate-neutral and Smart Cities. Climate KIC is the lead organization of a 34-member consortium comprising NetZeroCities and leads the process and coordinates across all Work Packages for the project. To deliver excellence in this project, Climate KIC has a focused team with high capabilities to lead a complex, multi-sectoral, multi-partner project.

The NetZeroCities Project Manager, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL), will oversee MEL aspects across multiple grant agreements, managing diverse relationships among partners and providing an operational framework for city support. We seek an experienced individual with strong project management and MEL skills, committed to driving transformative change and navigating complexity with innovation and pragmatism.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Act as the MEL Theme project manager, build relationships and act as a conduit across relevant work packages and organisations;
- Support Work Package Leads to deliver on their MEL needs, ensuring MEL evolves to remain fit for purpose in design and practice;
- Support the delivery, operations, and management of MEL processes and Impact reporting for Mission Cities
- Support the delivery and facilitation of knowledge exchange and capacity building around MEL and (climate mitigation and resilience) Impact assessment/reporting
- Engage proactively with internal and external stakeholders to undertake outreach and storytelling for communicating the impacts/outcomes monitored by the Mission Cities
- Proactively identify and act on synergies between the MEL approaches and other activities in the NetZeroCities consortium and Cities Mission, and in sharing and implementing good practice;
- Collaborate with Climate KIC's central MEL Team on cross-cutting organisational data collection, analysis, insights and sensemaking, where appropriate and useful;
- Drive alignment, coordination and information flows of NZC MEL with central MEL team, where appropriate and useful

**Key Working Relationships**
- NetZeroCities