GGF employs a decentralised decision-making approach to our programmatic work, which is focused under three impact areas: Energy, Equity, and Earth. Our approach is led by a global network of regional and thematic Advisory Boards, Independent Funds, and Global Recommending partners comprising over 250 individual activists and expert advisers located in the countries we serve. Each Advisory Board sets its own strategy for grant-making and manages its grant-making budget, which ensures that funding responds to the priorities of communities and movements, and in turn, to GGF’s programmatic priorities.

This approach shifts power to Global South partners through collective sharing of information, knowledge, and resources for monitoring and evaluating the impact of our collective work. To ensure we reach communities often overlooked or excluded by mainstream philanthropy, we employ a diversity of grantmaking and other resourcing approaches to strengthen the resilience and capabilities of organisations aligned to GGF’s programmatic priorities.

Our evidence-based, learning-driven grant-making network is anchored in our belief that a meaningful, accessible, and contextually relevant approach to knowledge generation that is relevant to and led by movements promoting environmental justice is central to understanding the progress and impact of the collective work of GGF’s Advisory Network.

Manager, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Impact  role:

As part of our new strategy, GGF is strengthening its Monitoring, Evaluation, and Impact (MEI) function, building on learnings over the past three decades. This is a new role in GGF and will lead GGF’s approach to focus more on impact and greater accountability to movements, alongside donor accountability, while ensuring movements are able to determine and define their own approaches to monitoring and evaluation. The Manager, MEI plays a management role providing strategic operational leadership to this MEI functional area.

The Manager, MEI is responsible for leading and supporting the overall development and implementation of the GGF’s programmatic MEI framework and strategy. The role will design and implement processes and systems that embed evidence-based decision-making and the ability to understand,  learn, and adapt to increase GGF’s collective programmatic impact. The role drives and champions strategic and organizational monitoring and evaluation, and impact, working in collaboration across teams. The role drives the organisational agenda towards being an accountable organization, at all levels, to all stakeholders.

The role oversees implementation of procedures around quality, timely monitoring, evaluation, and impact, and supports the Programs Team and wider organization to track and evaluate the progress and impact of and approaches to work, supports the collection of stories, analysis, and facilitates dissemination (internal and external) of data, information, and learning.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Strategy development and implementation

• Working closely with relevant stakeholders, lead the development and implementation of a fit-for-purpose Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact framework and strategy, and design and develop appropriate MEI systems and approaches.
• Develop organisational processes and tools to set and measure programmatic milestones, targets, and outcomes, and collectively report against these and coordinate the development of MEI guidelines and instruments for relevant stakeholders.
• Monitor impact, ensuring accountability to movements, and evaluate organisational progress against the Impact Areas, strategy, and programmatic indicators.
• Lead change management strategies and implementation activities aligned to the MEI framework and strategy.
• Working closely with colleagues in the Programs Team, support the Global Network to track the progress and impact of their strategies to support grantees and their movements.
• Contribute to ecosystem-wide thought leadership on MEI and accountability in philanthropy and grantmaking.
• Manage day-to-day activities related to the impact and tracking frameworks for GGF.

Management, monitoring, evaluation, and technical support

• Provide technical oversight and expertise, and facilitate and support capacity strengthening in MEI across the Program’s team and wider organisation and Network on the MEI framework and strategy.
• Provide guidance and support to the Programs team and Network, and other relevant stakeholders on MEI tools, approaches, and activities, and program-level monitoring and evaluation support.
• Collaborate on cross-team and cross-network engagements to promote collective understanding and ownership, and increase collective learning on progress against the strategy.
• Work out what resources are needed to deliver the MEI strategy and contribute to the development and management of the MEI budget under the Programs Team in alignment with financial policies and procedures.
• Coordinate with other team members and support reporting and data gathering from grantee partners and reports as appropriate, and lead sense-making efforts.
• Ensure programmatic data sets are continuously updated and analyze quantitative and qualitative data against deliverables and outcomes.
• Develop and maintain user-friendly databases and dashboards as appropriate for data management and visualization.
• Collaborate with Grants, Finance, and Fundraising teams and the UK teams to develop and maintain efficient processes for MEI.
• Collate and present internal and external data to inform strategic and operational decisions to diverse audiences.
• Manage external consultants supporting the delivery of MEI activities.

Communication, reporting, and knowledge management

• Establish and nurture relationships with colleagues as an integral element of communication – championing evidence-based agenda setting, storytelling, impact sharing, and influencing.
• Ensure timely and quality production of programmatic data, analysis, and information for internal and external reports, including for Board meetings, donors, the Network, and other audiences.
• Support the preparation of clear, actionable MEI reports, presentations, and other communication products for internal and external audiences in various formats (written, visual, video, audio, etc.).
• Support the organisation and curation of internal and external knowledge products and resources.
• Contribute data and analysis of progress and impact to the production of the organizational annual report.
• Support the documentation of case studies and stories of change to highlight insights and good practices across the global network and liaise closely with colleagues to ensure timely and effective distribution to relevant audiences.
• Identify and integrate innovative tools, applications, and technologies to enhance data analysis, reporting, and communication.
• Support the organization and facilitation of learning sessions, workshops, and webinars for GGF staff, network, and partners, and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to efforts to improve communication and connections with the Advisory Network, including with grantees, Administrators, Coordinators, and representatives from partner organizations.

Team mentoring, development, and support.

• Mentor and provide strategic support and direction on MEI to the Program Team, who may be working remotely in multiple locations across multiple time zones.
• Contribute to ensuring the Programs Team can meet their day-to-day needs to reach their goals in alignment with the organizational vision.
• Contribute to the development of a high-quality team in the organization through participation in recruitment, evaluation, and career development.

Position Specifications

Essential Values and Competencies

• Commitment to the guiding principles, mission, and values of the Global Greengrants Fund.
• Commitment to a value-based intersectional framework and its implications for organizational practices and principles of anti-oppression.
• Transparency and accountability.
• Critical thinking and analysis.
• Strategic risk management.
• Build strong interpersonal relations from the role – across both organizations (up, down, across, and externally).
• Influencing and resolving differences across boundaries.
• Self-awareness and insight.
• Collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented approach towards team members and the wider organization.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Experience

• Significant relevant experience in similar roles in grants management for environmental justice, feminist, gender, Indigenous, human rights organizations, and/or funding organizations.
• Demonstrated experience in feminist Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning approaches.
• Strong familiarity with social and environmental justice movements and relevant frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Impact around social and climate justice grantmaking.
• Good understanding of impact tracking methods and tools, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches, with proven ability to implement impact tracking and evaluation systems.
• Excellent analytical and research skills, with experience in data visualization and software tools (e.g., Excel, Tableau, Kobo Toolbox, Power BI, or similar).
• Demonstrated capacity to think strategically, innovatively, and analytically, with expertise in complex problem solving, decision-making, and critical thinking skills, displays good judgment.
• Excellent interpersonal understanding, relationship building, and interpersonal skills to build strong alliances with diverse constituencies and manage complex politics, positioning, and relationships.
• Strong financial management acumen; knowledge of accounting procedures and protocols, budgeting, and financial analysis.
• Experience working with diverse communities from multiple identities across the globe, in a virtual environment.
• Fluency in English; proficiency in other languages preferred.
• Strong expertise in the use of various software and a high level of computer literacy (MS Office Suite, Google Apps, instant messaging, and virtual team collaboration software such as Trello, Zoom, Slack, Asana, Raiser’s Edge, Smart Simple, Salesforce, or other donor management systems).

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Experience

• Relevant lived experiences related to GGF’s work and community.
• Experience in developing or managing information systems (for example, virtual or physical libraries or archives) and in using multiple communication and knowledge production formats (film, audio, visual/graphics).
• Deep understanding and experience with some of the following: grassroots social and/or feminist movements, environmental issues, capacity strengthening for civil society organizations, and/or the role of community-led grantmaking.