View Vacancy – 26775 – Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer SEO – (NR)

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Job Category

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Operations and Corporate Services)

Job Subcategory

Evaluation

Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)

Main purpose of job:

This is an important role with responsibility for leading BHC Kenya on monitoring, evaluation and learning. The job holder must champion the use of evidence across all our work, and ensure all MEL activities are proportionate, high quality and up to FCDO standards.

BHC Nairobi hosts over 400 staff from 10 HMG Departments covering roles on Kenya, Somalia and the region. In line with the UK-Kenya Strategic Partnership, the BHC Country Plan goals cover mutual prosperity, security and stability, sustainable development, climate change, people to people and democracy and human rights.

BHC Nairobi works closely with the Government of Kenya at central, regional and county levels, with civil society and businesses. Our international partners include regional organisations and major multilaterals (UN, World Bank, IMF).

The Strategy, Assurance and Results Team (START) supports BHC to do the right things in the right way and maximise the quality and credibility of our actions, by:

• providing assurance to BHC leadership, central FCDO and the UK taxpayer;
• generating and promoting the use of information, evidence and learning; and
• giving expert support and advice to teams, pillars and leaders.

We do this through facilitation and support to strategy and policy, and to programmes and ODA spend. The team provides a one-stop-shop for support on finance, risk, safeguarding, programme management and commercial advice. It also leads on policy and programme assurance functions and relationships with scrutiny bodies.

The incoming MEL officer will provide leadership on our Portfolio, Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, whilst also supporting results, monitoring, evaluation, evidence and learning processes across programmes and other activities. They will ensure we use evidence to maximise our impact against the resources we put in. They will support and enable teams and seniors to track and deliver results, maximise efficiency and achieve value for money in delivering UK objectives in Kenya.

The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to work with autonomy, drive forward workstreams and influence and lead others towards the best outcome.

Roles and responsibilities:

Programme monitoring, evaluation and learning:

• Supporting, advising and leading teams to generate high quality programme monitoring and evaluation, including logframes or results frameworks, theories of change and independent evaluations
• Referring teams to specialist support in areas needed, and identify opportunities for capacity building and training
• Providing timely quality assurance and advice for annual reviews, project completion reviews, concept notes and business cases, ensuring a consistent approach to project scoring underpinned by sufficient evidence, and adherence to guidance and transparency requirements
• Provide oversight of programme visits, leading processes around beneficiary feedback, data quality assurance and risk updates
• Facilitating learning discussions around key programme issues, including facilitation of the Kenya Policy Forum
• Liaise with donors, partners and government on monitoring, evaluation or results issues

Portfolio monitoring, evaluation and learning:

• Support, commissioning and oversight for results commissions from HQ
• Supporting systems for tracking progress against the Business Country Plan and strategic partnership, and facilitating discussion amongst teams and leaders
• Conducting or supporting contextual and diagnostic analysis of priority development issues

Programme leadership:

• Leading the implementation of the Portfolio Monitoring Evaluation and Learning programme, as the Programme Responsible Officer
• Managing the partner, finance and risk oversight, and ensure compliance with PROF Rules
• Supporting the programme manager to carry out tasks in a timely and quality manner
• Acting as a liaison point between the BHC teams and the implementing partner
• Generating demand and ownership and use for the evidence products, amongst internal and external stakeholders

FCDO statistics and evaluation community

• Actively engaging in cross-FCDO statistics and evaluation cadres and knowledge sharing activities, including regular attendance at cadre meetings and discussion groups
• Proactively contribute 10% to the development of the statistics/evaluation cadres

Active member of the Strategy, Assurance and Results team

• Be an active member of a small team, leaning into to support others and cover or lead workstreams as required
• Possibility of line management for 1-2 staff members, including recruitment, performance management, task management and pastoral support
• Contribute to a corporate role in the BHC office

Resources managed (staff and expenditure):

• This post will act as Programme Responsible Owner for the £3.8m Programme Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Programme
• Line management of EO Results and Reporting Officer

Essential qualifications, skills and experience

• Established track record of designing, carrying out or managing monitoring, evaluation or research
• whilst we expect a strong understanding of basic MEL concepts, we welcome candidates who are haven’t been working directly in a similar role but are open to learning more in-depth and technical parts of the role once in post.
• Experience applying tools such as theories of change, evidence gap maps and evidence synthesis for decision making
• Good understanding of log frames and other results frameworks
• Experience using and promoting uptake of monitoring results, evaluations, research and evidence
• Experience of engaging internationally – often on complex and sensitive matters
• Experience of working across and engaging diverse teams, being flexible and able to adjust

Desirable qualifications, skills and experience

• Programme management experience.
• Experience in international development
• Understanding and/or experience of measuring influence or diplomacy
• Some formal training on MEL or research methods

Required behaviours

Changing and Improving, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together

Application deadline

22 June 2026

Grade

Senior Executive Officer (SEO)

Type of Position

Fixed Term

Working hours per week

36.25 hours

Duration of Post

18 months

Region

Africa

Country/Territory

Kenya

Location (City)

Nairobi

Type of Post

British High Commission

Number of vacancies

1

Salary Currency

KES

Salary

568,904.86 (Base salary is subject to tax and other statutory deductions)

Type of Salary

monthly

Start Date

1 August 2026

End Date

31 March 2028

Additional information

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• Please check your application carefully before you submit, as no changes can be made once submitted.
• The British High Commission will never request any payment or fees to apply for a position.
• Base salary is subject to tax and other statutory deductions
• Employees recruited locally by the British High Commission in Nairobi are subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local employment law in Kenya.
• It is essential that the applicants already have the right to live and work in Kenya without the need to apply for a work permit.
• Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary may have their salaries reduced by the equivalent local income tax amount.
• Information about the Civil Service Success Profiles can be found on this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles. Please note: AA=A1, AO=A2, EO=B3, HEO=C4, SEO=C5
• Reference checking and security clearances will be conducted on successful candidates and appointment is subject to that clearance.
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• Appointable candidates who were unsuccessful may be placed on a ‘reserve list’. If during the reserve period of 6 months the same or a largely similar role becomes available, that role may be offered to the second or subsequent candidate”

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