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The Learning and Impact Managing Officer position will build and strengthen the MEL function within Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism’s Programs Team and across our core programmatic areas of advocacy and alliance building, collective care, and grantmaking. In collaboration with the Director of Programs and other Programs Team colleagues, the Learning and Impact Managing Officer will be responsible for designing, overseeing, and providing thought leadership for the implementation of our MEL strategy, processes, and system using innovative and participatory feminist MEL principles. They will be responsible for leading the Learning and Impact Team and will directly supervise the Senior Learning and Impact Officer. They will serve as a champion of MEL thinking within the organization and will also be responsible for fostering and sustaining a learning and reflective culture and practice for Programs Team staff. They will do so by facilitating meaningful learning and decision-making, asking strategic questions, overseeing data collection and analysis, identifying trends, and thoughtfully communicating results. Additionally, they will co-lead the Urgent Action Fund Sister Funds MEL core group and collaborate with its members and the core group facilitator to co-design and/or implement the Sister Funds’ MEL framework, collective learning activities and knowledge products. They will also provide information and analysis for funder proposals and relevant reports and insights on Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism’s work and that of its grantees. Lastly, the Learning and Impact Managing Officer will support philanthropic advocacy that seeks to influence donors to refine their MEL requirements and practices in ways that would create enabling conditions for the implementation of feminist MEL.