MREL & Knowledge Exchange Lead

MREL & Knowledge Exchange Lead

Company Overview:
Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.

For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved – and is committed to continuing to improve – economies, societies and most importantly, people’s lives.

Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. We also provide eq ual employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.

Project Overview and Role:
* Palladium is seeking a MREL & Knowledge Exchange Lead for a Prosperity Fund health programme in China called Primary Care Response to COVID-19.
* The programme is part of the Prosperity fund China Health Programme and will promote affordable, accessible and integrated healthcare services for managing COVID-19 and epidemic-potential disease, including for vulnerable groups, including ethnic minorities, remote rural populations, the older people and the socially excluded women, through three key areas at both national and local levels.
* PCRC-19 will be delivered in two of the following provinces the Sichuan, Gansu and Hubei as well as in the National Level.

Location: Beijing
Reporting to: Team Leader
Duration: 1 year, full-time

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

Project and partnership design:
* Lead on the development of robust and evidence-informed monitoring approach across the programme, and ensures the ToCs, Results Frameworks and Indicators Sheets are regularly reviewed and updated in response to learning through implementation.
* Develop core monitoring tools to be used on the project and knowledge management systems.
* Participate in Rapid Monthly Assessments and Quarterly Strategic Reviews of implementation of the project.
* Liaise with the client and the project management team when the client appoints an evaluator to: integrate the monitoring strategy and the evaluator’s programme evaluation strategy, discuss the implications for planned midline and end line evaluations, and to clarify roles and responsibilities.
* Liaise with the GESI Advisor to design a routine analysis of different approaches to understand which initiatives are contributing to the greatest reduction in defined GESI inequality metrics. Further, the MREL lead will conduct qualitative analysis to understand the underlying reasons for any differential impacts.

Reporting and Partnership oversight:
* Coordinate the M&E components of annual and quarterly reports to the client. This includes the annual review evidence pack which reports, demonstrates and evidences progress against annual review milestones.
* Lead and coordinate the production and submission of other key client deliverables, including the M&E components of the Logframe and M&E Strategy
* Actively accompany partners in the course of their delivery of data on evidence of progress. This will entail routine check-ins to assess and document progress.
* Consider secondary data sources that can either prove or disprove the programme’s contribution to change before engaging in primary data.
* Lead on monitoring at the health partnership and at the programme level.
* Where required, work closely with the leadership at healthcare institutions to help them to strengthen procedures and processes for routine institutional level data collection, analysis and use to embed monitoring approaches introduced by us within the existing clinical/institutional performance management mechanisms.

People Management
* Work with the other senior team members of the project to oversee the work of short-term advisors, contractors, and partners, including developing TORs, providing quality assurance, etc.
* Enforce Quality Assurance across all M&E outputs.
Coach and mentor members of project staff on M&E, Knowledge Management (KM) and learning components.
* Ensure that all individuals responsible for data collection and reporting are trained in M&E processes, data quality, reporting templates and schedules to ensure they do not just submit data, but are capable of understanding and interpreting the data with which they work.

Lessons Learning and Knowledge Management
* Develop a learning and knowledge management strategy, working with partners and key stakeholders to ensure effective sharing of learning between UK and China stakeholders.
* Play a leading role in the organization of learning events in China and online, with programme stakeholders. These will bring together different institutions that have received support from the programme to interrogate learnings collectively and critically.
* Hold periodic partner learning events and participate in similar externally hosted events at which lessons learned are to be documented and shared.

Required Qualifications:

Main Requirements
* Master’s degree in development studies, social science, statistics, or another relevant subject.
* Extensive experience of working on monitoring, evaluation and learning.
* Demonstrable understanding of and interest in health and health systems strengthening issues in China.
* Strong track record of leading on research work, particularly using qualitative research methodologies and secondary analysis of existing literature.
* Experience managing other M&EL consultants and research teams.
* Experience of guiding international collaborations between China and counterparts in the Global North; linkages to the UK are desirable.
* Familiarity with M&E concepts and processes preferred by FCDO (i.e. theories of change, logframes, MEL strategy development)
* Good analytical ability and report writing skills.
* Fluency in English and Mandarin.
* Familiarity with outcome mapping and/or contribution analysis.
* Familiarity and networks within China health institutions.

Chinese Nationals Strongly Encouraged to Apply