Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer

Bwyd Powys Food (hosted by Cultivate) serves as the lead administrative organisation for the Dyfed Powys Civil Food Resilience Project (Phase
2). This collaborative regional initiative unites all four Local Food Partnerships (LFPs) across the region—Bwyd Powys Food, Bwyd Sir Gâr Food Partnership, Partneriaeth Bwyd Ceredigion, and Pembrokeshire Food Partnership.

Phase 2 focuses on scaling up civil preparedness and literacy regarding food system shocks, co-producing household and community toolkits, and expanding machinery rings and shared processing capacity for local producers.

Workstream 1 (Scaling Up Awareness & Governance):
Co-creating bilingual food resilience toolkits, conducting scenario testing workshops and engaging households, community groups, food businesses, and public bodies. to embed food security into emergency planning.

Workstream 2 (Strengthening Local Food Systems):
Supporting the expansion of regional machinery rings, facilitating farm diversification, building direct supply chain connections, and promoting grower training initiatives.

To establish, oversee, and deliver a unified regional Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework for the Dyfed Powys Civil Food Resilience Project across all four Local Food Partnerships.

• Toolkit Evaluation:
  Designing the Food Resilience Toolkits monitoring framework for households, community groups, food businesses, and public bodies.
• Strategic Learning & Legacy:
  Support strategic integration and legacy planning by translating evaluation findings into actionable learning briefs for public bodies, regional forums, and national stakeholders.

• Machinery Ring Metrics:
  Develop baseline datasets and tracking mechanisms for the machinery rings across the LFPs (including tracking metrics such as new ground broken, change in crop yields, number of equipment hires, and qualitative feedback).

• Framework Design:
  Design and implement a regional monitoring and evaluation framework to embed impact measurement across all project work streams and partner organisations.
• Data Coordination:
  Coordinate with the Project Officer and local LFP Coordinators to collect regular delivery data, user feedback, and case studies across all four counties.
• Impact Reporting:
  Synthesise project outputs and outcomes into clear, unified impact reports to demonstrate progress against key project KPIs (such as producer sign-ups, event attendance, and training completions).
• Compliance & Safeguarding:
  Ensure data collection processes comply with relevant data protection (GDPR), safeguarding and confidentiality requirements.
• Bilingual Practice:
  Champion bilingual evaluation principles, ensuring feedback tools and learning outputs support the project's commitment to the Welsh language.