MEL Lead for Climate Action & Local Food Systems

Cultivate; Newtown; Sur place; GBP 32 000 - 42 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Cultivate is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer to lead participatory MEL for the Marches Food Systems for the Future project across Powys, Monmouthshire, Herefordshire and Shropshire.

You will design and implement a MEL framework, capture carbon savings, and support farmers and community leaders to reflect and adapt.  You will work with local coordinators and a communications colleague to translate findings into accessible outputs, ensuring inclusive participation and

Responsabilités

• Framework Design & Strategy: Collaboratively create a participatory MEL framework for the 12 community clusters and the wider Marches Bioregion, using simple, creative, and inclusive methods that allow participants to identify what is important to them.
• Carbon Tracking: Develop and manage a "carbon totaliser" tool to track estimated carbon savings directly linked to project activities (e.g. kg of food waste prevented, food miles reduced).
• Data Collection & Analysis: Support local project coordinators and community facilitators in collecting data, ensuring it represents the diversity of participants (including under-represented groups, youth, and farmers).
• Action & Learning Loops: Collate feedback and track progress against project outputs and outcomes to form the basis of a quarterly team review and reflection cycle.
• Advisory & Governance Support: Present evaluative data and insights to the six-monthly Advisory Board to help increase project impact, reach, and inclusivity.
• Storytelling & Dissemination: Support the Communications Officer in translating evaluation findings into accessible, creative assets- such as data for quarterly newsletters, social media metrics, blogs, and videos- ensuring participants can see how their views are used.
• Evidence Case Formulation: In the final year of the project, work closely with an external consultant and multi-stakeholder assemblies to develop a comprehensive evidence case pinpointing the economic and political levers for scaling up systemic change across councils, health boards, and farms.
• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI): Embed EDI tracking mechanisms (such as part-postcode data collection) to monitor engagement with marginalised groups, refugees, people experiencing food poverty, and harder-to-reach agricultural sectors.

Description du poste

Cultivate is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer to lead participatory MEL for the Marches Food Systems for the Future project across Powys, Monmouthshire, Herefordshire and Shropshire.

You will design and implement a MEL framework, capture carbon savings, and support farmers and community leaders to reflect and adapt.  You will work with local coordinators and a communications colleague to translate findings into accessible outputs, ensuring inclusive participation and