Job Description
We are looking for a reliable and dynamic professional who can join the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team preferably in our office in Vienna, Austria.
The MEL Analyst will support maintenance of the core MEL Framework components for SEforALL’s programmes, drafting donor reports, coding contracts and associated deliverables in relevant databases as well as setting up of data management systems and tools for new projects or funding streams.
The successful candidate will be an experienced professional with at least 2 years of experience supporting the design and implementation of MEL Strategies and Frameworks across international development programmes and organizations, strong data management and analytical skills as well as a Master’s degree in international relations, management, development economics, energy, MEL or a closely related field.
Duties and Accountabilities
The main tasks of the role include, but are not limited to:
- Support the maintenance of the core MEL Framework components for SEforALL’s programmes, including KPI Management Tool quality, accuracy and evidence; data entry; producing content for internal and donor narrative reports; providing accurate content for donor proposals.
- Support as necessary on new projects within the organization relevant to reporting and deliverables tracking and setting up MEL data management systems (in Salesforce and other organizational workflow tools).
- Coding contracts and associated deliverables in relevant databases.
- Support in drafting donor reports across the organization in coordination with all internal and external programmes to ensure programme managers contribute high-quality narrative and data for donor reports.
- Support organizational processes to ensure donor deliverables and reports are submitted on time, of high quality and continuously build trust with donors to further invest in SEforALL.
- Support MEL team in the preparation of proposals and that programme design is aligned with internal logframes, frameworks and ToCs.
- Support the implementation of SEforALL’s MEL Strategy and Framework; ensuring all KPI Management Tools for programmes under this role’s responsibility are aligned with new innovations and up to date.
- Support the set-up of data management systems and tools for new projects or funding streams.
- Support the implementation of innovations to further streamline the MEL Framework, tools, processes and templates.
- Support programmes and the organization to capture learnings throughout the programme cycle.
- Support quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
- Administrative support of evaluations (documentation, scheduling, etc.).
- Support coordination of internal cross-organizational semi-annual and annual reporting processes, capturing data and evidence for all other reports to donors throughout the year.
- Ensure knowledge management systems are kept up to date, including Salesforce and SharePoint, capturing all deliverables and associated documentation across the organization.
- Other tasks and duties as may be required.
The ideal candidate would have:
- A minimum of 2 years of demonstrated experience supporting the design and implementation of MEL Strategies and Frameworks across international development programmes and organizations, including ongoing reporting, data management and analysis
- Master’s degree in international relations, management, development economics, sustainable development, international development, energy, MEL - monitoring, evaluation and learning, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated experience in Project Management
- Strong data management and analytical skills, preferably including analysis and synthesis across international programmes or multiple projects
- Professional level command of written and spoken English, particularly in report writing for both general and executive audiences
General Competencies for the Role
- Innovation and Adaptability: Has advanced skills and commitment to search for and produce innovative and creative approaches to activities. Is flexible to evolving circumstances, as well as helps others in doing so.
- Resilience and Emotional Intelligence: Has advanced knowledge in the concepts of resilience and emotional intelligence. Is able to remain calm in challenging situations, to cope with setbacks, is responsive to the emotions of others and maintains a high level of performance.
- Analytical and Strategic Thinking: Has an advanced level of analytical and strategic thinking skills. Gathers and processes demanding information, develops sound solutions and contributes recommendations for action to line supervisor/others as appropriate.
- Collaboration and Partnership: Demonstrates advanced initiative and abilities to collaborate and form partnerships in own area of responsibility and across teams. Actively develops and maintains partnerships and displays team-oriented attitude contributing to creating a positive team spirit.
- Lead and Empower: Demonstrates initiative and role model behaviour in leading and empowering others. Takes responsibility for own work activities and personal actions and carries out the commitments agreed upon
- Political and diplomatic understanding: Has an advanced level of political and diplomatic understanding.
- Communicating information: Has proficient skills in communicating information and uses the skills effectively in own scope of work and in others’ work.
- Research and Analytics: Has advanced skills in research and analytics and uses the skills effectively in own scope of work.
- Project Management: Has advanced skills in project management. Plans and organises their own work using project management tools in support of achieving the team’s objectives.
- Client Orientation / Striving for Excellence: Has advanced skills in client orientation and achieving excellency in work delivery.
Salary information
SEforALL has adopted its own salary scales corresponding to the SEforALL grading system. The minimum yearly salary for this position is EUR 42,080. The actual salary offer will be determined within the scale depending on the successful candidate’s qualification and experience, and applying the principle of internal equity. In addition to the base salary, SEforALL staff receive a benefits package that includes contribution to pension, contribution to health insurance & homeworking allowance.
About the Organization
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) is an international organization working with leaders in government, the private sector and civil society to drive further, faster action toward achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which calls for universal access to sustainable energy by 2030, and the Paris Agreement, which calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit climate warming to below 2° Celsius.
Achieving these goals will require a radical rethink of the way we produce, distribute and consume energy. SEforALL is at the heart of this foundational shift to ensure no one is left behind. Drawing on data and evidence, we identify a critical path to success in achieving SDG7.
Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the Sustainable Energy for All initiative in 2011. Now an independent organization, we maintain close links with the UN, including through a relationship agreement, partnerships with UN agencies and with SEforALL's CEO acting as the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy. These roles include advising the UN Secretary General and his staff on issues relating to sustainable energy and the implementation of SDG7 and supporting the coordination of sustainable energy issues in the United Nations system.
The ambitions of SDG7 are extraordinary. Aiming to achieve them in the context of the Paris Agreement on climate change involves transformation at a scale never undertaken before. Swift action must be taken by leaders in governments, private sector companies, institutions, financiers, development banks, unions, communities, entrepreneurs and civil society. As we enter the final decade to achieve SDG7, SEforALL has strategically chosen to strengthen global agenda-setting while expanding its activities to an engagement model that prioritizes data-driven decision-making, partnerships with high-impact countries and implementation on the ground. The new SEforALL three-year business plan outlines “results offers” that scope out our planned interventions and demonstrate to our funding partners the impact of their support. http://www.seforall.org
