In A Nutshell
Lead and deliver a diverse project portfolio spanning strategy, implementation support, evidence synthesis, evaluation, and learning across a wide range of digital economy, livelihoods, financial inclusion, and climate programs.
Responsibilities
End-to-end project leadership and delivery
- Lead and deliver M&I projects from initial scoping through to final outputs.
- Select and apply fit-for-purpose methods and approaches aligned with Caribou’s M&I practice principles.
- Hold core client relationships, including shaping scopes, managing expectations, and ensuring outputs meet our internal standards.
- Oversee project staffing and resource planning in coordination with the M&I team leadership and other Project Leads.
- Step into hands-on delivery when needed—for example, shaping measurement approaches, facilitating learning or sensemaking processes, synthesising evidence, developing frameworks or models, producing insights or communication outputs, or strengthening measurement systems.
- Ensure strong technical and editorial quality assurance across all work products.
Team leadership
- Manage and support M&I team members across your portfolio, providing day-to-day guidance, structured support, and feedback.
- Identify team strengths and gaps; inform recruitment and staffing decisions.
- Foster a team culture aligned with Caribou’s values.
- Provide coaching and technical support on Caribou’s M&I approaches, tools, and ways of working.
Practice strengthening and business development
- Represent Caribou and supported projects in external forums, networks, and partnerships.
- Strengthen client relationships and identify opportunities to deepen or expand work.
- Lead and contribute to business development, proposal writing, and lead development.
- Create practice assets (e.g., briefs, methodological notes, insights products) that advance Caribou’s M&I practice through developing or updating service standards, guidance, and tools.
- Identify opportunities to test or refine new approaches to measurement within live projects.
Skillset
- 10+ years working across measurement, evaluation, learning, evidence, or adjacent fields, within international development, digital economy, or impact-oriented programs.
- A strong track record leading and delivering M&I work for clients — from initial scoping and approach design through analysis, synthesis, communication, and final outputs.
- Demonstrated ability to work across diverse methods (qualitative, quantitative, participatory, systems-oriented, analytical), selecting and adapting approaches to context, feasibility, and decision-use.
- Excellent capability in insight communication, including narrative framing, synthesis, visualisation of data and concepts, and developing clear, compelling outputs for different audiences.
- 5+ years leading and developing teams, with experience managing performance, providing feedback, and supporting professional growth across remote or multi-country contexts.
- Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder or multi-disciplinary projects, with the judgement to navigate ambiguity and shifting needs.
- Strong client engagement skills, including scope shaping, expectation management, and aligning work with strategic decision points.