Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, South Africa
IUCN
Pretoria, South Africa · South Africa
Posted on Mar 19, 2026
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
The M & E Officer will be responsible for the following main duties;
Lead the design and implementation of the M&E framework for projects funded through the SADC TFCA Financing Facilities.
Support a review of log frames and indicators of the SADC TFCA Financing Facilities where necessary.
Coordinate with M&E officers under other NaturAfrica components, especially the Joint EU-GIZ C-NRM project, the Nature Africa landscape actions implementing partners, and the B4Life Facility, for a common M&E approach on all NaturAfrica funded actions.
Develop standard reporting templates, data collection tools, and indicator protocols for grant recipients to report on relevant output, outcome, and impact indicators (e.g. community-based tourism, infrastructure investments, partnerships).
Review M&E sections in concept notes and proposals and provide technical input to ensure clarity, realism, and alignment with the overall programme indicators.
Support grantees with training, coaching and field-based technical assistance to ensure proper implementation of monitoring systems and data quality assurance.
Coordinate baseline studies, mid-term reviews, final evaluations, and thematic studies (e.g. human well-being using BNS, food security using FCS, green jobs metrics, etc.).
Participate in field missions and monitoring visits to ensure data verification and compliance with donor reporting standards.
Lead on the compilation of monitoring results, success stories and lessons learned, feeding into knowledge sharing platforms (e.g. TFCA Network meetings, donor events).
Support the production of regular performance reports to the donor, including M&E sections of the narrative reports.
Ensure cross-cutting issues such as gender, youth, human rights and environmental safeguards are integrated and reported in the monitoring system.
South Africa Country Office;
Provide MEL support to South Africa country Office as maybe needed by the Project Manager or the Country Representative.
Other Duties:
As a subject matter expert on performance, planning, monitoring, evaluation, and learning, provide technical support including M& E capacity development to team members in the Project Management Unit.
Ensure alignment of the intervention results and indicators with IUCN strategic goals and priorities (global, regional, national, and thematic) and with the principles laid out in the IUCN One Programme Charter.
Ensure that the performance measurement framework enables accurate and effective quantitative and qualitative measurement of progress and delivery of the project.
Coordinate across the members of the project team(s) and grantees to collect, analyse, and synthesize data and information to monitor and assess performance to support reporting and decision making, in line with donor requirements.
Provide technical advisory, operational guidance and capacity building to the project team(s) and project manager(s) on performance and accountability to support implementation and adaptive management, including on appropriate monitoring and data collection methods and tools.
Advocate for and facilitate the proactive use of performance and results information in decision-making and adaptive management across the project through the preparation of technical inputs from monitoring data and as a subject-matter expert on performance dashboards.
Prepare technical inputs and/or contribute to drafting reports, and other evidence-based communications on progress internally and to the donor, by coordinating, controlling quality and synthesizing monitoring and reporting data.
Promote project, programme and institutional learning through the design and facilitation of internal evaluative work, learning events or other mechanisms that capture, synthesize and share lessons and best-practices.
Contribute to communications with information stemming from the monitoring, evaluation and learning system.
Identify and contribute to mitigation of risks, supporting the Project Management Unit in the development of risk management tools and ensure project risk register is regularly monitored and updated.
Support the Project Management Unit to maintain accurate project data in the IUCN Programme and Project Portal.
Support the Project Management Unit in meeting IUCN requirements for formal project finalisation and closure (standards for documenting outcomes and lessons learned).
Carry out other relevant tasks assigned by, and mutually agreed with, the direct and functional line managers.
The M & E Officer will be responsible for the following main duties;
Lead the design and implementation of the M&E framework for projects funded through the SADC TFCA Financing Facilities.
Support a review of log frames and indicators of the SADC TFCA Financing Facilities where necessary.
Coordinate with M&E officers under other NaturAfrica components, especially the Joint EU-GIZ C-NRM project, the Nature Africa landscape actions implementing partners, and the B4Life Facility, for a common M&E approach on all NaturAfrica funded actions.
Develop standard reporting templates, data collection tools, and indicator protocols for grant recipients to report on relevant output, outcome, and impact indicators (e.g. community-based tourism, infrastructure investments, partnerships).
Review M&E sections in concept notes and proposals and provide technical input to ensure clarity, realism, and alignment with the overall programme indicators.
Support grantees with training, coaching and field-based technical assistance to ensure proper implementation of monitoring systems and data quality assurance.
Coordinate baseline studies, mid-term reviews, final evaluations, and thematic studies (e.g. human well-being using BNS, food security using FCS, green jobs metrics, etc.).
Participate in field missions and monitoring visits to ensure data verification and compliance with donor reporting standards.
Lead on the compilation of monitoring results, success stories and lessons learned, feeding into knowledge sharing platforms (e.g. TFCA Network meetings, donor events).
Support the production of regular performance reports to the donor, including M&E sections of the narrative reports.
Ensure cross-cutting issues such as gender, youth, human rights and environmental safeguards are integrated and reported in the monitoring system.
South Africa Country Office;
Provide MEL support to South Africa country Office as maybe needed by the Project Manager or the Country Representative.
Other Duties:
As a subject matter expert on performance, planning, monitoring, evaluation, and learning, provide technical support including M& E capacity development to team members in the Project Management Unit.
Ensure alignment of the intervention results and indicators with IUCN strategic goals and priorities (global, regional, national, and thematic) and with the principles laid out in the IUCN One Programme Charter.
Ensure that the performance measurement framework enables accurate and effective quantitative and qualitative measurement of progress and delivery of the project.
Coordinate across the members of the project team(s) and grantees to collect, analyse, and synthesize data and information to monitor and assess performance to support reporting and decision making, in line with donor requirements.
Provide technical advisory, operational guidance and capacity building to the project team(s) and project manager(s) on performance and accountability to support implementation and adaptive management, including on appropriate monitoring and data collection methods and tools.
Advocate for and facilitate the proactive use of performance and results information in decision-making and adaptive management across the project through the preparation of technical inputs from monitoring data and as a subject-matter expert on performance dashboards.
Prepare technical inputs and/or contribute to drafting reports, and other evidence-based communications on progress internally and to the donor, by coordinating, controlling quality and synthesizing monitoring and reporting data.
Promote project, programme and institutional learning through the design and facilitation of internal evaluative work, learning events or other mechanisms that capture, synthesize and share lessons and best-practices.
Contribute to communications with information stemming from the monitoring, evaluation and learning system.
Identify and contribute to mitigation of risks, supporting the Project Management Unit in the development of risk management tools and ensure project risk register is regularly monitored and updated.
Support the Project Management Unit to maintain accurate project data in the IUCN Programme and Project Portal.
Support the Project Management Unit in meeting IUCN requirements for formal project finalisation and closure (standards for documenting outcomes and lessons learned).
Carry out other relevant tasks assigned by, and mutually agreed with, the direct and functional line managers.
