Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY

Reporting to the Lead, Impact Canada, the Partner, Program & Impact will be responsible for advancing monitoring, evaluation, learning, and adaptation (MELA) activities within the Mastercard Foundation EleV program. This role supports the co-creation process with partners, emphasizing the integration of Indigenous and decolonial methodologies and the formalization of MELA processes. The Program Impact Partner also plays a key role in documenting lessons learned and facilitating deep reflection to influence future programming, practice, and policy decisions. You will also be engaged on the program side in project management, engaging with partners, and planning events.

WAYS YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE

• Under the direction of the Lead of Impact, Canada – support the formalization and implementation of the MELA (Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, & Adaptation) process within EleV, ensuring alignment with strategic outcomes and improving methods for tracking and analyzing broader program impact and insights.
• Support the team’s use of digital platforms, including Fluxx and Atlas.ti, for data management, analysis, and sense-making.
• Oversee the integration of qualitative and quantitative data into systems and tools to enable comprehensive impact analysis, informing Canada programs and broader impact learnings across the Foundation.
• Support external research contracts through co-creation and alignment with team priorities and conduct internal research activities as needed.
• Work closely with the Impact Lead to support partners in their MELA efforts, including onboarding, facilitating reflection sessions, addressing challenges collaboratively, and strengthening MELA processes and capacity.
• Collaborate with partners to co-create and implement learning approaches that reflect Indigenous and decolonial methodologies, ensuring they are culturally informed and contextually relevant.
• Support the gathering and sharing of impact stories to enrich strategic development and understanding.
• Gather and document lessons learned from program partnerships and partner engagements, ensuring these insights inform reporting requirements, strategic decision-making and future programming.
• Provide administrative and coordination support for MEL activities, including scheduling meetings, managing communications, and coordinating the logistics of in-person and virtual events.
• Maintain and manage the overall calendar of MELA milestones, partner touchpoints, and report timelines across the portfolio.
• Providing project coordination support across priority strategic initiatives and portfolio themes by actively participating in working groups and pods
• Identify Indigenous education and employment issues and trends that affect education, economic development, legal and financial systems.
• Conduct research and analysis that would include preparing reports, opportunity documents, or input into board reporting.
• Support planning and execution of partner convenings and peer learning engagements.
Potential to co-develop and/or manage a few select partnerships based on skills, knowledge or interest.

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelor’s Degree and 4+ years of relevant working experience.
• Lived experience as an Indigenous person in Canada.
• Experience working with Indigenous communities, Indigenous organizations, or Indigenous youth.
• Experience in program monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning, with project coordination and management skills.
• Familiarity with MEL frameworks, evaluation approaches, and/or data analysis.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate information to a variety of constituents across cultures.
• Fluency in French and/or knowledge of an Indigenous language is an added advantage.
• Strong organizational, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks.
• Proficiency with MS Office (PowerPoint, Word, and Excel).
• Growth mindset, with a desire to seize opportunities to learn and excel.
• Commitment to the values of co-creation, humility, kindness & respect, and deep listening.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, research, and report writing skills.
• Strong interpersonal and listening skills, with the ability to build trust and relate effectively to diverse stakeholders, including external partners, youth, government, and the private sector.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
• Passionate about Indigenous youth education, employment, and wellbeing.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a desire to integrate Indigenous ways of being and doing into practice.
• Flexible, intellectually curious, and open; comfortable with ambiguity and emergence, receptive to new ideas, and willing to change when presented with the best options.

Required languages: English, French

Education level: •Bachelor's Degree and 4+ years of relevant working experience

Required skills: Experience in event planning and management and/or project coordination and management skills.

Additional skills / Assets: •Experience in program monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning, with project coordination and management skills.

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