Monitoring, Evaluation

**We are seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Manager to join our Melbourne team.**

Working, as both a team member of the MEL team, and a member of multiple cross-functional initiative teams, this role will:
**Oversee the implementation of MEL plans for Movember initiatives**
- Partner with each Impact Initiative lead to understand MEL needs and design a fit for purpose MEL approach
- For each initiative, develop a POP (Program on a Page / program logic) to assist each cross-functional team to describe and/or design each Impact Initiative.
- If required, commission and manage external consultants to conduct the planned MEL activities.
- Oversee data collection and analysis and maintain quality control for MEL data. Ensure that data is going to be appropriately used and is aligned with the indicators in the MEL Plans.
- Be responsible for the submission of HREC submissions, ethical monitoring and reporting.
- Oversee the quality of key MEL deliverables from external consultants (MEL Plan, Program on a Page - POP, Interim and Final Evaluation Reports, Learning presentations).

**Design, develop and implement a MEL Strategy that meets the MEL needs of a Movember Impact Portfolio when required**
- Develop a Theory of Change for an Impact Portfolio
- Develop a MEL strategy that aligns to the Movember Impact Strategy, the MEL Team Approach, the Movember Impact Framework, and the Theory of Change.
- Work with the MEL team to ensure indicators and measures of portfolio success are consistent where possible across portfolios and contribute to organisational performance reporting requirements.
- Ensure the MEL Strategy is communicated effectively across the portfolio with relevant stakeholders.
- Be accountable for the implementation of the MEL Strategy for the Impact Portfolio, and responsible for the delivery of relevant outputs and achieving milestones, as set with the Global Director, MEL and relevant senior leadership for the Impact Portfolio.

**Facilitate the sharing and translation of organisational learnings from MEL activities**:

- Develop a Knowledge Sharing Plan for each Portfolio Initiative to guide internal and external learning activities.
- Where applicable, facilitate iterative cycles of learning within each Impact Initiative team during the implementation of each Initiative. Adopt a continuous improvement approach to assist with the monitoring of progress and uncovering of insights along the way that could be shared more broadly.
- Contribute evidence from MEL activities to the Movember Institute, with the aim of contributing to MEL best practice and building the evidence base for what works to improve the quality of life for men across the portfolios of work / research undertaken at Movember
- Liaise with the Advocacy, MET and Fundraising teams to share and promote the uptake of the evidence accrued.
- Promote knowledge translation to the men's health sector in alignment with the Movember Institute's policies and practices.

**Contribute to the continual improvement of the MEL foundational policies, processes, frameworks, and tools**:

- Attend and actively contribute to MEL team meetings.
- Actively promote the use of existing and new MEL policies, processes, frameworks and tools with Impact Initiative teams and external consultants.
- Proactively identify the need for new MEL policies, processes, frameworks and tools, and contribute to their development and addition to the MEL Team Toolkit
- Be an ambassador of best practice MEL at Movember and with the wider men's health and evaluation sectors.

**For this role, you'll need**:

- Relevant qualifications in public/population health, psychology, medical research and/or evaluation, implementation science or a related health discipline.
- Skilled and experienced in designing and delivering research and/or evaluation projects in relation to health problems.
- Skilled and experienced in monitoring and/or evaluation end-to-end project management (~10 years).
- Skilled and experienced in supporting internal individuals and teams from non-research or evaluation functional areas to understand and value MEL work.
- Skilled and experienced in the development of Theory of Change / Program Logics.
- Skilled and experienced in using a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods.
- Skilled and experienced in communicating research/evaluation/monitoring results to a range of audiences using a variety of mediums and channels.
- Demonstrated skills in anticipating and solving problems

**Desirable**:

- Experience in working as or with health professionals.
- Experience in commissioning and working with external consultants.
- Experience working in oncology/cancer (particularly prostate cancer) and/or mental health would be highly regarded.
- Experience developing or working with outcome frameworks and developing indicators & measures.
- An understanding of, or experience working with, PROMs data and oncology registries.
- Journal publications