MEL Coordinator

Job summary

We're looking for an exceptional Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Co-ordinator to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our MEL Coordinator, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work. There is the opportunity for international travel as part of this role and a willingness to travel internationally is desirable.

Whilst this is a fixed term position until 31st March 2028, there is potential for it to develop into a permanent position subject to future funding.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Job description

Your world of expertise

Our MEL Coordinator will support the expanding delivery of MEL activities for international development projects at the Met Office, notably our Weather and Climate Information Services (WISER) programmes in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Asia Pacific Regions. With support of the WISER MEL team, consisting of the Strategic MEL Manager and another MEL Coordinator, you will facilitate and support results reporting, learning and knowledge sharing across WISER. You will closely collaborate with partner organisations and associated programme and project stakeholders at the local, national, regional, and international level to track and share progress, identify lessons learnt, and strengthen cross-regional and thematic bridges between projects and WISER programmes. The role will also focus on using a range of evidence to support influencing policy and strategic planning in line with WISER’s aims and share learning from WISER with other initiatives and associated programmes WISER is linked to.

The Met Office WISER family of programmes supports initiatives to strengthen people’s resilience to the effects of climate change through co-producing and strengthening their access and use of weather and climate information services. The WISER Programme Team works in partnership with FCDO (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), and delivers its work through the global meteorological community, national governments, development agencies, NGOs and academic institutions. We act as a strategic partner to deliver FCDO objectives and support countries to strengthen their own weather and climate capability, policies and services.

The MEL Coordinator role aligns with the UK Government’s Project Delivery Capability Framework (PDCF) as a Benefits Manager Level 3 and will be positioned within the Project Delivery Team in the Programmes Directorate at the Met Office. The role will be allocated to projects/programmes as per the business need.

Your key duties:

As our MEL Coordinator (aligned to PDCF Benefits Manager Level 3 within Met Office), the key duties are:

• To work with the Strategic WISER MEL Manager and WISER MEL Coordinator in post and independently, to implement a range of MEL tools and approaches. This requires working with a range of stakeholders in different settings both in-person and virtually.
• To provide targeted MEL support to partners, including in the development of project proposals and ongoing monitoring.
• To contribute to the planning, facilitation, documentation and dissemination of lessons learned through WISER’s learning and knowledge exchanges, working with partners across WISER.
• To report on project and programme performance using different types of evidence to demonstrate impact.
• To help share WISER impact and learning at conferences, workshops and events.

Person specification

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

1. Experience in using a range of monitoring and evaluation tools and approaches to demonstrate impact and aid learning, including Theory of Change, results frameworks, Stories of Change, Value for Money. (We’re experts by nature).
2. Experience of working on large programmes with a complex set of stakeholders, ideally in international development and/or in the weather and climate information services sector (We’re a force for good).
3. Strong analytical and influencing skills with ability to understand, gather and synthesise data from a range of sources on organisation, stakeholder and user needs.
4. A strong track record of effective stakeholder engagement and written and oral communication skills, including using a range of communication channels to develop dialogue across diverse groups, including at senior level.
5. Experience of planning, facilitating and designing methods and tools for different types of learning and sense-making in a leading role (We’re better together).
6. A willingness and ability to travel internationally, with a strong understanding of working overseas and in different cultural settings (We live and breathe it).

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,081, Met Office contributes £12,480 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Why join us

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ 2023, 2024 and 2025 lists, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ 2023 list.

As our MEL Coordinator, your total reward package will be up to £60,268 annually, which includes:

• £43,081 base pay
• An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

How to apply

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing date Sunday 26th April at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 11th May 2026. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.

Using AI in your application

We welcome applications that use AI tools for support in drafting or refining, as long as they accurately reflect your own skills and experience. All hiring decisions at the Met Office are made by people, not AI. For more details, visit our approach to recruitment.

How we can help

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at careers@metoffice.gov.uk.

If you’re considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible, 2 of these years must be immediately preceding the point of your application. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.

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Medical

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Resourcing Team
• Email : careers@metoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

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