Evaluation Manager for the Poverty Impact Fund (PIF) and Partnership Programme Arrangements (PPAs)

Contract for: Evaluation Manager for the Global Poverty Action Fund (GPAF) and Partnership Programme Arrangements (PPAs)

Contract number: PO 5432

Objective:

The purpose of this contract is to design and manage the overall evaluation functions of the GPAF and the PPAs – ensuring impact can be assessed at both individual grantee level as well as at overall portfolio (fund) level. This will be achieved through ensuring evaluability of both GPAF and PPA grant agreements, supporting partners to develop best practice evaluation functions, developing and implementing overall evaluation strategies and implementation plans for each fund (5/6 years for the GPAF, 3 years for the PPAs).

The Evaluation Manager will be responsible for the following:

Ensuring evaluability of grants from each fund including:

1. Recommending suitable funding levels for grantees to dedicate to evaluation for the GPAF windows and PPAs.
2. Helping each grantee to develop a baseline early on against which future change can be objectively assessed.
3. Ensuring that each Agreement has a clear logframe (perhaps including theories of change for complex interventions) with SMART indicators and accessible and reliable information sources.
4. Advising on appropriate methodologies to be used in evaluation, (including resource intensive methods such as randomised control trials) for different types of projects or organisations.
5. Advising grantees on how to generate usable data on costs, benefits, success rates and lessons from civil society interventions