Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer

Hours: 13.125 hours / week (1.75 days / week)

Contract: Part-time, fixed-term until 31st March 2027

About the Project & Lead Organisation

Bwyd Powys Food (hosted by Cultivate) serves as the lead administrative organisation for the Dyfed Powys Civil Food Resilience Project (Phase 2). This collaborative regional initiative unites all four Local Food Partnerships (LFPs) across the region—Bwyd Powys Food, Bwyd Sir Gâr Food Partnership, Partneriaeth Bwyd Ceredigion, and Pembrokeshire Food Partnership.

Phase 2 focuses on scaling up civil preparedness and literacy regarding food system shocks, co-producing household and community toolkits, and expanding machinery rings and shared processing capacity for local producers.

Workstream 1 (Scaling Up Awareness & Governance): Co-creating bilingual food resilience toolkits, conducting scenario testing workshops and engaging households, community groups, food businesses, and public bodies to embed food security into emergency planning.

Workstream 2 (Strengthening Local Food Systems): Supporting the expansion of regional machinery rings, facilitating farm diversification, building direct supply chain connections, and promoting grower training initiatives.

Job Description

To establish, oversee, and deliver a unified regional Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework for the Dyfed Powys Civil Food Resilience Project across all four Local Food Partnerships.

Key Responsibilities

Workstream 1: Scaling Up Awareness & Governance

• Toolkit Evaluation: Designing the Food Resilience Toolkits monitoring framework for households, community groups, food businesses, and public bodies.
• Strategic Learning & Legacy: Support strategic integration and legacy planning by translating evaluation findings into actionable learning briefs for public bodies, regional forums, and national stakeholders.

Workstream 2: Strengthening Local Food Systems

• Machinery Ring Metrics: Develop baseline datasets and tracking mechanisms for the machinery rings across the LFPs (including tracking metrics such as new ground broken, change in crop yields, number of equipment hires, and qualitative feedback).

Cross-Workstream MEL Framework & Governance

• Framework Design: Design and implement a regional monitoring and evaluation framework to embed impact measurement across all project workstreams and partner organisations.
• Data Coordination: Coordinate with the Project Officer and local LFP Coordinators to collect regular delivery data, user feedback, and case studies across all four counties.
• Impact Reporting: Synthesise project outputs and outcomes into clear, unified impact reports to demonstrate progress against key project KPIs (such as producer sign-ups, event attendance, and training completions).
• Compliance & Safeguarding: Ensure data collection processes comply with relevant data protection (GDPR), safeguarding, and confidentiality requirements.
• Bilingual Practice: Champion bilingual evaluation principles, ensuring feedback tools and learning outputs support the project’s commitment to the Welsh language.

Person Description (E = Essential, P = Preferred)

• Proven experience in designing and executing monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) frameworks (E)
• Strong data collection and analytical skills, with experience gathering both quantitative metrics and qualitative case studies (E)
• Experience establishing baseline measurements and tracking operational KPIs across multi-partner or multi-site projects (E)
• An organised, systematic, and methodical approach to managing datasets and presenting findings clearly to stakeholders (E)
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-county project teams, community groups, and local food producers (E)
• Alignment with the project’s core values regarding food resilience, localised food systems, and community empowerment (E)
• Able to work flexibly and manage working time independently across a regional project footprint (E)
• Ability to speak, read, and write in Welsh, or a commitment to supporting bilingual data collection and reporting (P)
• Committed to applying equal opportunities principles in monitoring and evaluation practice (E)

Closing Date: 6th September 2026

Interview Dates: w/c 14th September 2026