Global Director – Monitoring and Evaluation
About CABI
Established over 100 years ago, CABI is a not-for-profit intergovernmental organisation that improves people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Our mission and direction is influenced by our 48 member countries who help guide the activities we undertake. These include scientific publishing, development projects and research, and microbial services. At the heart of our success are the people who make it happen. We have over 350 staff working from ten locations around the world, all of them experts in their field.
Established over 100 years ago, CABI is a not-for-profit intergovernmental organisation that improves people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Our mission and direction is influenced by our 48 member countries who help guide the activities we undertake. These include scientific publishing, development projects and research, and microbial services. At the heart of our success are the people who make it happen. We have over 350 staff working from ten locations around the world, all of them experts in their field.
About the role of Global Director- Monitoring and Evaluation
Joining our Senior Management team as Global Director – Monitoring and Evaluation, you will support the overall coordination of programme-level monitoring and evaluation and gender mainstreaming within CABI. Initially, you will use your expertise to take responsibility for all monitoring, evaluation and reporting on Plantwise, a global programme led by CABI to increase food security and improve rural livelihoods by reducing crop loss. From developing the Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks and performance mentoring system to designing and managing assessments and evaluations, you will improve processes to quantify outcomes and impact. As a member of the Plantwise Programme Board, CABI staff will look to you for oversight, mentorship, advice and strategic and technical leadership.
Joining our Senior Management team as Global Director – Monitoring and Evaluation, you will support the overall coordination of programme-level monitoring and evaluation and gender mainstreaming within CABI. Initially, you will use your expertise to take responsibility for all monitoring, evaluation and reporting on Plantwise, a global programme led by CABI to increase food security and improve rural livelihoods by reducing crop loss. From developing the Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks and performance mentoring system to designing and managing assessments and evaluations, you will improve processes to quantify outcomes and impact. As a member of the Plantwise Programme Board, CABI staff will look to you for oversight, mentorship, advice and strategic and technical leadership.
About you
This is a key role for CABI, so you will need to have the commitment and capability to add value to the organisation. You will, ideally, be qualified to PhD level in Agricultural Economics, Economics or an equivalent and you are likely to come to us from an evaluation and monitoring profession, with an impressive track record of applying your quantitative skills and knowledge to agricultural development. You will have used your up-to-the-minute knowledge of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) best practice to build a track record of leading M&E activities across large programmes. People believe in you and you can demonstrate this through a successful track record of influencing partners and leading teams in cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary environments. Your interpersonal, presentation and communication skills, both written and spoken, are first-class. You are a natural ambassador with an impressive commercial acumen and operational grasp, driven to achieving business results.
This is a key role for CABI, so you will need to have the commitment and capability to add value to the organisation. You will, ideally, be qualified to PhD level in Agricultural Economics, Economics or an equivalent and you are likely to come to us from an evaluation and monitoring profession, with an impressive track record of applying your quantitative skills and knowledge to agricultural development. You will have used your up-to-the-minute knowledge of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) best practice to build a track record of leading M&E activities across large programmes. People believe in you and you can demonstrate this through a successful track record of influencing partners and leading teams in cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary environments. Your interpersonal, presentation and communication skills, both written and spoken, are first-class. You are a natural ambassador with an impressive commercial acumen and operational grasp, driven to achieving business results.
For a full role description and to apply, please visit www.cabi.org/about-cabi/work-for-us under Post Reference Number 93/2013. Closing date 17.00 BST on 11 October 2013.
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