Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Officer

About Us

At Founders Pledge, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to do immense good. Since launching in 2015, we’ve raised over $12 billion for the most impactful social causes. We offer the simplest path to impact for successful entrepreneurs, providing end-to-end giving infrastructure, pioneering research, and access to a worldwide network of experts. In other words, we help tech leaders become strategic philanthropists. Our 2,200+ members include the people behind industry-leading companies such as Airbnb, UiPath, Dropbox, Skype, Spotify, and Uber.

About The Role

Founders Pledge has significantly scaled the volume, size, and dynamism of its grants. While we are strong on pre‑grant research, forecasting, and prioritisation, this growth has highlighted the need to further strengthen our post‑grant monitoring and learning as we scale. We’re looking for a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Officer to join our Impact Analytics team, reporting to the Head of Insights and Analytics, to systematise how we learn from our grants — understanding what happens after funding and translating those insights into better future decisions.

The Purpose Of The Role Is To:

• Assess real‑world outcomes against pre‑grant impact forecasts
• Build feedback loops that improve calibration and decision quality over time
• Generate credible, decision‑useful impact evidence and narratives
• Support Founders Pledge’s shift from purely theoretical impact toward something more tangible, testable, and learnable

You’ll work closely with colleagues across Impact Analytics, Research, and other teams to ensure insights from post‑grant learning meaningfully inform future grantmaking.

What You’ll Do:

• Run post‑grant monitoring for Founders Pledge’s most strategically important grants
• Compare actual outcomes against forecasted impact and underlying assumptions
• Own low‑lift MEL approaches (e.g. structured check‑ins) and contribute to higher‑lift evaluations and stress‑testing where appropriate
• Build and maintain a growing evidence base on the accuracy and calibration of impact forecasts
• Surface insights and patterns across grants to support internal learning and decision‑making
• Collaborate with the Communications team to support credible impact storytelling and external collateral
• Support site visits and direct engagement with grantees where valuable

What We’re Looking For:

We’re looking for a thoughtful, analytically strong, and learning‑oriented evaluator who is excited by complexity, uncertainty, and real‑world impact. You’ll be motivated by understanding what worked, what didn’t, and why — and by feeding those insights back into better future decisions.

Must‑haves:

• Strong quantitative and analytical reasoning skills
• Comfort working with uncertainty, imperfect data, and incomplete information
• Experience with monitoring, evaluation, and learning in complex systems
• Ability to interpret data holistically, combining quantitative and qualitative signals rather than relying on single metrics
• Ability to synthesise insights and communicate them clearly to diverse stakeholders

Nice‑to‑haves:

• Exposure to cost‑effectiveness or impact modelling
• Experience in global development, public policy, or philanthropy
• Strong ability to translate analysis into clear, credible narratives
• Active listening and facilitation skills to understand the needs and utility of MEL for diverse stakeholders

Indicators of Success Over Time:

Success In This Role Would Look Like:

• Clear, repeatable post‑grant MEL processes embedded across major funding decisions
• Evidence that impact forecasts are being systematically calibrated and improved
• Credible, actionable insights feeding back into research and funding decisions
• Clearer post‑grant results and lessons, available for internal and external use

Location, Travel, and Salary:

This role can be fully remote. Location: UK, US East Coast, or Germany. Salary: Up to £48k / $85k / €60k, depending on location and experience. If not London‑based, occasional travel to London (or vice versa) will be required for collaboration. There may be opportunities to personally conduct site visits in low‑ and middle‑income countries, but travel is not a requirement of the role. All staff are expected to attend periodic team offsites and an annual global offsite.

Why Work With Us?

You can find more about the benefits we offer here, but what makes us truly special is both our mission and our people. We’re a diverse team, from both charitable and commercial backgrounds, who believe that amazing things can happen when we tackle problems together. We offer a flat structure and an opportunity to help shape the future of philanthropy. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Founders Pledge. We seek people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share our drive to understand and solve complex social challenges. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Finding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems requires different perspectives and unique ways of thinking, and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can do their best work. If you’re excited about our mission but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.