Overview
This role provides technical support or leadership on the design, development, and operationalization of approaches to monitor the adoption of a systems approach and systems change, and associated processes of adaptation through learning.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement approaches for monitoring the adoption of a systems approach and systems change.
- Establish and facilitate learning processes with implementing teams and partners.
- Ensure alignment and complementarity between systems change monitoring efforts and institutionally required results and reporting frameworks.
- Act as a technical focal point on the topic of monitoring systems change towards internal and external partners.
- Identify and engage with relevant technical partners, practitioners and experts.
- Contribute to the design, delivery and follow-up of expert consultations, reference groups, technical exchanges and learning and capacity building events.
- Document insights, lessons and emerging practices from the application of monitoring systems change and related learning and adaptation processes.
- Contribute to the development of stories of change, case studies and other products that illustrate the process of systems change over time.
- Prepare clear and accessible technical notes, briefs and other (knowledge) products.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of relevant experience working on complex programme, systems-level or policy monitoring, learning or evaluation using qualitative research methods with a systems lens.
- Experience with setting up and implementing monitoring frameworks in project and/or policy contexts with a systems lens.
- Knowledge and experience with applying learning processes in project and/or policy contexts with a systems lens.
- Deep understanding of a systems approach in agrifood systems contexts.
- Degree and extent of demonstrated experience in monitoring and/or evaluation and learning in programme and/or policy contexts with a systems lens.
- Degree and extent of depth of methodological expertise on monitoring, learning and/or evaluation of systems change.
- Degree and extent of familiarity and experience of working on agrifood systems with a systems approach.
- Degree and extent of country-level experience of monitoring systems change.
- Previous experience of engagement with international issues and organizations and/or working in the development sector/ UN system.
Qualifications
- For Consultants: Advanced university degree from an institution recognized by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/UNESCO in public policy, public administration, social science, political science, international development, economics, sociology, data science, or another relevant field. Consultants with a bachelor's degree need two additional years of relevant professional experience.
- For PSAs: University degree (or technical degree/certificate) from an institution recognized by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/UNESCO in public policy, public administration, social science, political science, international development, economics, sociology, data science, or another relevant field.
