MEL Coordinator

Job Introduction

We’re looking for an exceptional Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Coordinator to help us make a difference to our planet.

The job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work. There is the opportunity for international travel as part of this role and a willingness to travel internationally is desirable. 

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week.  Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

Whilst this is a temporary position up until 31^st March 2028, there is potential for it to develop into a permanent position.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Your world of expertise

As our MEL Coordinator, you will support the expanding delivery of MEL activities and knowledge management for international development projects at the Met Office, notably our Weather and Climate Information Services (WISER) programmes in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Asia Pacific Regions. With support of the WISER MEL team, consisting of the Strategic MEL Manager and another MEL Coordinator, you will facilitate and support results reporting, learning and knowledge sharing across WISER. You will closely collaborate with partner organisations and associated programme and project stakeholders at the local, national, regional, and international level to track and share progress, identify lessons learnt, and strengthen inter-and cross-regional and thematic bridges between projects and WISER programmes. The role will also focus on using a range of evidence to support influencing policy and strategic planning in line with WISER’s aims, and share learning from WISER with other initiatives and associated programmes WISER is linked to. This includes feeding learning back into FCDO research programmes such as CLARE. 

The Met Office WISER family of programmes supports initiatives to build people’s resilience to the effects of climate change through co-producing and strengthening their access and use of weather and climate information services. The WISER Programme Team works in partnership with FCDO (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), and delivers its work through the global meteorological community, national governments, development agencies, NGOs and academic institutions. We act as a strategic partner to deliver FCDO objectives and support countries to strengthen their own weather and climate capability, policies and services.

Your key duties

As our MEL Coordinator (aligned to PDCF Benefits Manager Level 3 within Met Office), the key duties are:

• To work with the WISER MEL team, and independently, to implement monitoring, evaluation and learning tools and approaches to support results reporting. This will require working with a range of stakeholders in different settings both via in-person and virtual spaces, to elicit, analyse and report different types of evidence to support programme and project progress.
• To support the Strategic WISER MEL Manager and WISER MEL Coordinator in post, with learning and knowledge exchanges, working with WISER partner organisations within and across WISER’s three regions, and with other associated programmes globally, potentially including FCDO research programmes such as CLARE.
• To support and coordinate WISER partner organisations with their engagement in learning activities and in producing learning and impact outputs.
• Lead on, support and coordinate opportunities and deliverables to share WISER learning at applicable global conferences, workshops and international events both in-person and virtually.

Why join us

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is accredited as a 'Great Place to Work UK 2023' and in addition has achieved a place on both the UK's 'Best Workplaces in Tech' and 'Best Workplaces for Women' lists.

As our MEL Coordinator, your total reward package will be up to £57,639 annually, which includes:

• £41,725 base pay
• An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

1. Experience in using a range of monitoring and evaluation tools and approaches to demonstrate impact and aid learning, such as Theory of Change, results frameworks, Stories of Change, Value for Money, Strategy Testing, Outcome Mapping/Outcome Harvesting (We’re experts by nature).  
2. Experience of working on large programmes with a complex set of stakeholders, ideally in international development and/or in the weather and climate information services sector (We're a force for good). 
3. Strong analytical and influencing skills with ability to understand, gather and synthesise data from a range of sources on organisation, stakeholder and user needs (we're experts by nature). 
4. A strong track record of effective stakeholder engagement and written and oral communication skills, including using a range of communication channels to develop dialogue across diverse groups, including at senior level (We’re a force for good). 
5. Experience of planning, facilitating and designing methods and tools for different types of learning and sense-making in a leading role (We’re better together).
6. Experience in setting up, reviewing and improving knowledge management and learning practice in organisations and partnerships, and delivering a range of knowledge management and learning outputs (we're experts by nature).
7. A willingness and ability to travel internationally, with a strong understanding of working overseas and in different cultural settings (We live and breathe it). 

Desirable Criteria:

We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet our essential criteria, but your application will be even stronger if you have:

1. An intermediate or higher level of proficiency in French (written and verbal).
2. Knowledge of the development sector/ NGOs and issues facing developing countries (Keep evolving).

How to apply

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you. Apply below with your CV and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing date 09/09/2024 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 23/09/2024. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.

How we can help

If you are considering applying and need support to do so, please contact us via careers@metoffice.gov.uk. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.