This is a hybrid position which requires 8 days per month in the office. You can be based in our office in Washington DC, The Hague, or London. Existing work authorization is required at the time of application submission as WRI is unable to sponsor any visa work sponsorship for this position. To be eligible for this position in US, you must be a resident of DC, Maryland or Virginia at the start of employment.
About the Program:
The Managing for Results (MfR) team ensures WRI is equipped to understand the contribution of its programs to long term impact for people, nature and climate and country transitions, aligned with the institutional Results Framework and five year strategy. MfR serves as an institutional resource, ensuring that programmatic teams are meeting internal and external standards for good practices in planning, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (PMEL).
Over the next five years MfR will accelerate a โstep changeโ in PMEL practices and culture at WRI to enhance programmatic effectiveness and demonstrate impact. The specific goals of the step change in PMEL are to have:
1. Robust, evidence-based theories (ToC) of change for programs and projects that are easily accessible for staff and partners to facilitate shared understanding and learnings
2. Intentional Pause and Reflect cycles to review ToCs and M&E data, discuss the learnings and changes needed to achieve the results in the strategic plan
3. Sufficient PMEL specialist capacity in every WRI team to support timely, evidence-based, adaptive management
4. WRI results that are easily verifiable, where contribution is well understood and WRIโs commitment to address social inequalities is reflected in the results
5. Iterative cycles of evaluation that support ongoing reflection and learning, systematization and publication of lessons learned.
Job Highlight:
Reporting to the Global Director, Managing for Results, you will shape WRI's impact by overseeing the development of a comprehensive annual workplan aligned with WRIโs institutional Results Framework and Theories of Change, as well as reporting results to core donors annually based on this workplan. The results reporting process includes the determination of โTop Outcomesโ submitted by program and operations teams and rigorously reviewed against a set of robust criteria. These processes require working across the Institute with global programs, country offices and core functions through a complex global process and constructing an institutional knowledge database. You will integrate equity into your work.
You will be part of the Managing for Results team in the Research, Data, and Innovation department, and will work with colleagues across the Institute. You will have one direct report to support the below tasks.
What will you do:
Lead Development of WRIโs Annual Workplan and Results Report (50%):
- Manage WRIโs global annual work planning process, which includes compiling and synthesizing planned outcomes and outputs from teams, ensuring their plans are aligned with WRIโs Results Framework and relevant Theories of Change
- Lead the compilation, synthesis and production of a comprehensive annual global results report for Core Donors, aligned with the annual workplan
- Contribute content from the annual results report to the annual organizational Scorecard including qualitative results matched with quantitative data uploaded to WRIโs monitoring and evaluation platform, DevResults
- Liaise closely with Communications to repurpose annual results report content for other audiences and needs
- Contribute to development of other presentations of WRIโs results to core donors, global executive team and other audiences
- Develop searchable repository of WRIโs results from annual reports aligned with individual Theories of Change and the institutional Results Framework
- Promote evidence-based and learning-oriented adaptive management within a results-driven culture
- Build and maintain strong relationships with other core functions to leverage data and learnings for improved planning, budgeting, and fundraising
- Champion and provide thought leadership in developing and implementing continuous improvement systems to streamline and integrate business processes
- Contribute to other learning focused initiatives, including Pause and Reflect
Oversee WRIโs Top Outcomes Process (40%):
- Oversee the annual โTop Outcomesโ process, which includes integration of outcome submissions into the annual results reporting process
- Collect submissions from across the institute in an integrated and organized fashion with annual results reporting, collecting key data points as well as responses to review questions
- Recruit, train and lead the cross-departmental review team, review all of the final scoring and flagging and resolving any issues, present and obtain approval from executive leadership
- Organize and run the annual Global Top Outcomes Celebration including developing a detailed run of show, prepping executive leadership, and coordinating with events, Communications, and executive support teams
- Document key learning by gathering, analyzing and interpreting trends and patterns in data about WRIโs outcomes
Manage and report Results and Learnings data in compliance with IATI standards (10%):
- Map gaps and improve current results and learnings data collection processes to comply with IATI standards
- Build and maintain an institutional knowledge database of contextualized plans, performance data, and lessons learned
- Operationalize International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) reporting for WRI's Strategic Plan
- Provide teams with internal technical assistance compiling project-level IATI reports.
What will you need:
- Education: You have a completed masterโs degree in a related field (e.g., business, economics, environment, management, process engineering). Relevant work experience in lieu of degree is accepted
- Experience: You have 7+ years of relevant work experience including in designing and managing global work planning and tracking processes across multiple teams in various countries, preferably at an international organization
- Proven track record of leading change management initiatives and implementing new processes in large, global, and matrixed organizations
- Demonstrable knowledge of industry-standard continuous improvement methods, quality assurance, adaptive management approaches, and complex systems analysis
- Experience with donor reporting and visual report building, data analysis and synthesis, development of dashboards, story-telling and wrangling complex and large data sets to create compelling data visualizations
- Demonstrable communication and interpersonal skills with experience forging productive partnerships with diverse stakeholders
- Experience communicating results, in several formats, including Power BI, PowerPoint presentations, and MS Word
- Experience managing several projects at different stages simultaneously, tracking details and communicating progress internally and externally
- Demonstrated understanding of strategy design, theory of change, results frameworks, monitoring, evaluation and learning tools for effective project design, management and reporting
- Experience with decision making, justifying recommendations, resolving problems, and communicating the solution(s) in a large organization
- Experience managing one or more direct reports
- Prior experience with International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI),