Monitoring and Evaluation
Level:
Expert / leading
Expert / leading
Develops and applies fit-for-purpose measures and indicators to monitor policy outcomes. Builds results of evaluation into policy making.
- Promotes the benefits of using high quality evaluation to create a shared understanding of the policy objectives and outcomes.
- Commissions fit-for-purpose monitoring and evaluations, with a focus on working with stakeholders to ensure the findings are credible and useful.
- Understands the value of investing in data collection and measuring, and uses the results of monitoring and evaluation to inform policy advice.
- Can effectively engage with and communicate the key findings, messages, and lessons from monitoring and evaluation to different audiences.
- Builds relationships with evaluation experts to help assess the results.
- Embeds an evaluation culture across the team and agency.
70% on-the-job learning
- Attend events run by the Chief Science Advisors forum on policy evaluation.
- Regularly scan relevant research and evaluation findings and interpret them for policy insights.
- Work with specialists on policy interventions needing evaluation, and institute an appropriate methodology.
- Share and present your evaluation findings from specific projects and discuss lessons learned with junior colleagues.
- Read the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association and Superu Evaluation Standards for Aotearoa New Zealand ANZEA (the full evaluation standards and a summary version of the standards are available).
- Read the United Kingdom’s Treasury’s Magenta Book: Central government guidance on evaluation.
20% learning from others
- Work with an evaluation specialist to plan, design, oversee the evaluation of a policy project.
- Lead a policy project with a more senior colleague and use methods and approaches to evaluation such as those set out by BetterEvaluation (see What is evaluation?).
10% formal training
- Attend a course on evaluation in public policy such as University of Auckland’s Programme Evaluation: Supporting evidence-informed practice.
- Attend a course run by the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association.
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