Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning Regional Support Officer: Asia

Overview of the role:  

ZSL seeks to be a sector leader in monitoring and evaluating the outcomes and impact of our projects and programmes. The primary function of the role is to help our country and other field teams design impactful work, to analyse indicator data across our projects and programmes, to assess the outcomes and impact of ZSL’s work, and to help communicate our successes and the lessons learned to a wide range of stakeholders. The post-holder will work to collate and analyse data on outputs, outcomes, and impact from a wide range of projects and programmes in Asia, with particular emphasis on the Philippines, assessing them against ZSL’s Conservation Plan and the new ZSL Strategy using the ZSL Impact Framework, and support the communication of results to partners, donors and ZSL’s wider audiences. The role will involve supporting the regular monitoring of progress against key indicators and helping with the development of reporting tools for annual assessments against our institutional targets. The role will also work to help improve our data collection, management, storage and analysis processes, tools, and systems. In addition to the impact assessment work referred to above, the post-holder will provide other technical inputs including helping with MEAL tool development and the development of capacity in MEAL skills across C&P’s Asian country teams. 

Key responsibilities:  

• The post-holder will use the ZSL Impact Framework to assess the outputs, outcomes, and impact of ZSL's projects and programmes in Asia and work closely with the Planning, Design, and Impact Team to use that information to help communicate the impact of ZSL’s work.
•  As needed, the post-holder will input into the development of data collection, management, storage and analysis processes and systems in line with approaches being developed for the whole organisation. Initially, this will involve helping test a system for data collection and cloud-based data management using existing tools to which ZSL currently has access.
•  Provide inputs if/as needed into periodic impact evaluations of C&P's projects and programmes as needed, including for donor purposes and the ZSL annual report.
•  The post-holder will contribute to networking opportunities for collaboration between ZSL projects and programmes, other conservation NGOs and development NGOs as appropriate.
• Working closely with the MEAL Technical Specialist (in PDI) and the Conservation Training and Learning Manager, the post-holder will assist with the development of, training in, and regular review of MEAL tools, processes and systems to support teams during projects’ and programmes’ reporting and evaluation phases. 

We’re ZSL, an international conservation charity. Through our unrivalled animal experts in our two zoos (London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo), the work of our pioneering scientists, our dedicated conservationists, our purpose is to inspire, inform and empower people to stop wild animals going extinct. Our vision is a world where wildlife thrives and we’re working every day to achieve this. From investigating the health threats facing animals, to helping people and wildlife live alongside each other, we are committed to bringing wildlife back from the brink of extinction.  

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