Evidence and Learning Manager for Global Grids Catalyst

_SRI Executive Search has been contracted by the Global Grids Catalyst (GGC) to assist with the search for an exceptional candidate to fill the position of Evidence and Learning Manager._

About Global Grids Catalyst (GGC)

Global Grids Catalyst (GGC) is a collaborative funder initiative hosted by the Pooled Fund on International Energy (PIE). GGC’s mission is to accelerate global investment in and modernisation of electricity grids by connecting funders, civil society, and technical experts. Funders participating in GGC accept a single reporting framework and undertake to minimise bespoke reporting requests, a commitment that makes this role viable. The Evidence and Learning Manager will play a central part in helping this small, distributed team learn from its grantmaking and adapt as it scales.

For more information, visit www.globalgridscatalyst.org.

About Pooled Fund on International Energy (PIE)

Pooled Fund on International Energy (PIE) is a collaborative initiative. PIE supports leading organisations to work with governments, businesses, and societies to overcome the barriers to clean energy and clean steel and to achieve our common goals of a safe climate, clean air and a just energy transition.

Role Purpose

The Evidence and Learning Manager leads GGC’s organisational learning and evidence function, helping the organisation make better strategic decisions about where and how to invest its resources. The role is responsible for stewarding and continuously evolving GGC’s MEL framework, cultivating a culture of curiosity and learning across the portfolio, synthesising evidence from diverse sources, demonstrating the value GGC itself adds to the grids field, and ensuring that insights translate into action. Success in this role is measured not by the metrics tracked, but by whether GGC develops a culture of evidence and learning and a set of practices that implement it.

This is a hands-on build role in a small, globally distributed team. The Evidence and Learning Manager will work closely with the Communications Manager, who will convene GGC’s partners and communicate GGC’s results and learning to external audiences (both positions will be hired in Q1 2027). It suits someone whose first instinct is to look for the evidence and ask what it should change. Judgement, facilitation, and the ability to move a decision matter more in this role than technical evaluation expertise.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Learning and Decision Support

• Set GGC’s learning agenda from the decisions leadership needs to make. Agree each year with the Executive Director and Chief of Staff the questions the evidence should answer (are we funding the right interventions, where is our influence greatest, what should we scale, change, or stop), and organise evidence collection around them rather than around what is interesting or available.
• Feed evidence into strategic planning, portfolio design, and resource allocation, and give the Executive Director and Chief of Staff honest, timely reads on what the evidence supports and what it does not, including where it runs against a position GGC has already taken.
• Over time, help turn GGC’s approach into an evidence and learning framework that funders and grantees across the grids f...

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