Overview
The Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning & Portfolio Lead provides strategic guidance at the intersection of monitoring, evaluation, learning, and portfolio governance to ensure UN Global Pulse’s innovation portfolio is evidence-informed, performance-driven, and strategically managed.
Key Responsibilities
- Steer the design, implementation, and continuous refinement of UNGP’s organizational Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) framework.
- Drive the portfolio process, ensuring projects comply with established portfolio requirements, results frameworks, and reporting standards.
- Support portfolio teams to integrate robust results frameworks, indicators, and adaptive monitoring approaches.
- Facilitate structured learning sessions to periodically review and update portfolio processes and MEL frameworks.
- Synthesize insights from monitoring and evaluation activities to provide strategic advice to senior leadership.
- Supervise and provide day-to-day supervision, coordination, and technical guidance to the MEL team.
Required Experience
- Relevant experience in one or more of the following: MEL, Economics or International Development, of which a minimum of two years must be in an innovation context.
- Demonstrated experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), including designing and applying Theory of Change frameworks to guide innovation projects and teams.
- Experience in humanitarian or development sectors, including experience in international organizations or public sector contexts.
- Experience in coordination and management of MEL processes across multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience in delivering high-quality research, analysis preferably in both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
- Experience in working with agile project management and portfolio management, ideally within an innovation context.
- Experience of working in a UN organization.
- An understanding of project management and coordination practices in a UN context.
- Experience in developing innovative approaches to MEL that address systems-level impact.
- Experience facilitating strategic reflection, learning workshops, and/or portfolio reviews.
- Experience designing mixed-method evaluation approaches in complex or uncertain environments.
- Experience in leading and supervising teams.
Qualifications
- An advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent) preferably in International Relations, Business Administration, Economics, Monitoring and Evaluation, or other related field with 5 years of relevant experience is required.
- A first-level university degree (Bachelor's) preferably in International Relations, Business Administration, Economics, Monitoring and Evaluation, or other related field with 7 years of relevant experience is required.
