Senior Analyst - Faith at Porticus

JOB DESCRIPTION

• 360 Philanthropy Senior Analysts support programmatic colleagues (especially senior programme managers and challenge leads) in designing, implementing, and assessing strategies, developing monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, and promoting innovation, learning, and capacity building. They work closely with the Sector Director to help the organization making effective use of learning and evaluation for strategic intent, to assess progress toward impact goals, discern learnings, and to proactively share these across the organisation to improve future programming.
• Working across thematic areas with our 6 regional offices across the globe, and reporting to the Director of 360 Philanthropy (who is a Management Team member), the Senior Analyst contributes to Strategy, Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) and Organisational Learning. The 360 Philanthropy team focusses on insight, inclusion and impact at Porticus and leads processes to strengthen the organisation's philanthropic approach.
• The Senior Analyst supports Porticus in making effective use of learning and evaluation for strategic intent to achieve the highest impact in social change possible, to assess progress toward impact goals, discern learnings and to proactively share these across the organisation to improve future programming.
• The Senior Analyst will support the work within the Faith sector, covering thematic areas on child protection, building vital faith communities and vital catholic thought (higher education), and within this sector works with teams in designing, implementing and assessing challenge and programme strategies, developing programme and grant level monitoring and evaluation, and promoting innovation, learning and capacity building.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience relevant to the key responsibilities mentioned above.
• PhD in development economics, social sciences or related field, or Master’s degree with equivalent experience
• Fluency in English language (minimum level C1); additional language(s) a plus, especially Spanish
• Demonstrated track record in Strategy, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning, including (quantitative & qualitative) research and analysis, aimed particularly at system's change approaches
• Experienced facilitator of diverse groups, face-to-face as well as offline
• Experience with building organisational capacity of MEL, as well as training and coaching professionals in the area of MEL
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Preference for significant relevant work experience with strong networks and contacts in sectors related to Porticus’ work on Vital Faith Communities
• Experience with primary data collection, including design and quality oversight of (impact) evaluations
• Experience with participatory evaluation methodologies, ensuring inclusion of people with lived experience
• Knowledge and experience of strategies and practices to include gender and equity factors.
• Solid quantitative and qualitative research method skills, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills