Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager

Introducing Zinc Network

Zinc Network is a business dedicated to meaningful, measurable change. Zinc conceptualizes and creates programs, interventions, and strategic communications campaigns around some of the world’s most complex problems – from disinformation to extremism, media capture to authoritarianism.

We are headquartered in London, with 80+ team members from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds. Zinc works with a broad range of governmental, NGO, and private sector clients, including the UK Home Office (HO); the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO); UN agencies and missions; and foundations.

Outline of the job

We are looking for a Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager to lead MEL across some of our most innovative and high-impact programmes, with a particular focus on campaigning and behaviour change initiatives. You will work closely with programme teams to define meaningful objectives, track progress, and evaluate whether our interventions drive measurable changes in knowledge, attitudes and behaviours. You will be responsible for designing and delivering outcome evaluations, and for ensuring that learning from MEL is actively used to inform and improve project design. This role requires sharp analytical thinking, strong facilitation skills, and the ability to communicate evidence clearly to diverse stakeholders.

The Senior MEL Manager role will be based in London and be expected to be in our London office at least 3 days per week.

What you’ll be doing

- Leading the design and execution of monitoring and evaluation plans, including developing meaningful performance indicators and identifying relevant data collection processes

- Designing and executing outcome assessments, including surveys and focus groups with vulnerable groups

- Facilitating MEL planning and learning workshops with diverse team members

- Developing data collection tools to monitor progress over time, supporting staff with varying levels of expertise to use them

- Analysing qualitative and quantitative performance data

- Presenting performance analysis and evaluation to project teams and clients, supporting them to interpret findings and integrate learning

- Leading reporting on project outputs and outcomes to clients in both long form documents and presentations, supporting other team members to report their progress effectively.

- Providing support and advice to stakeholders across the business in monitoring, evaluation and learning

- Developing innovative approaches to mining data on the impact of our campaign

- Represent Zinc at high-level meetings with clients and project partners,

All while embodying the values of Zinc Network

Requirements

- 3-5 years of progressively responsible monitoring, evaluation and learning experience, ideally with experience evaluating campaigns and behaviour change

- An AI-fist mindset, confident in using AI powered tools to be more efficient and effective

- Experience of designing and executing results frameworks – developing indicators, identifying relevant data sources and collection mechanisms

- Familiarity with core monitoring and evaluation approaches, for example, theories of change, assessing change over time, mixed methods research

- Confidence working with digital data sets to understand and evidence attitudinal and behavioural change

- Experience of designing and managing primary data collection processes, such as surveys and focus groups, including managing third party data collection process and quality assurance

- Experience in qualitative and quantitative data analysis, ideally with some understanding of statistical principles and analysis

- Experience presenting evaluation findings in a clear, compelling way, to non-technical audiences

- Experience facilitating online and offline workshops

- Excellent communication skills – written, oral and data visualisation

- Some knowledge of Eastern and Central Europe is a bonus

Area of Selection

We’re committed to hiring a diverse workforce from different professional and cultural backgrounds, and to that end we encourage a variety of people to apply to join our company to represent the diverse range of subjects associated with our projects.

Conditions of Employment

Candidates who receive a job offer will be required to:

- Disclose any previous disciplinary action against them resulting from a substantiated safeguarding (including any breaches involving trafficking- related activities) or workplace investigation.

- Undergo background checks including employment verification, sexual offender registry (as available), identity confirmation, and anti-terrorism vetting.

How to apply

Please include a cover letter stating how you meet each of the requirements.

If you require an accommodation to be made at any point throughout the recruitment process, please advise us when contacted.

Applications deadline in 9am on Monday, June 2nd. Interviews will be week commencing June 2nd.