Principal

We are committed to maintaining business practices that honour and protect the dignity and integrity of everyone with whom the company conducts business, employs, and serves. As a leading international development organisation, we fully support continued progress and improvement within the development community to make development initiatives more effective. We are also committed to addressing various cross-cutting issues relevant to international development to ensure that all people can access and enjoy the benefits of our activities.

• We value our people: we support the development of our people, ensuring that the environments in which they work are fair, safe, and flexible.
• We deliver quality results: we go the extra mile to deliver value for our clients, impact for beneficiaries and a fair financial return for the company to grow sustainably.
• We collaborate effectively: we work authentically with our clients, beneficiaries and partners and strive to always communicate clearly and openly.
• We encourage creativity and innovation: we encourage entrepreneurial thinking and provide the freedom, support and investment for new ideas and initiatives.
• We operate with integrity: We will do the right thing, be honest and keep to our commitments., We are looking for an experienced Principal (i.e., Principal Consultant) to join Tetra Tech's growing Evaluation and Research (E&R) Practice based in London. You will be joining a dynamic and multidisciplinary team of MEL experts who are passionate about learning and accountability. We are looking for someone with a significant depth of experience in applying evaluation and research methodologies on a wide range of monitoring, evaluation, and research assignments. It is important that the candidate is experienced in leading business development from pre-positioning through to submission of the bid (including bid writing) across a wide range of thematic areas and different types of monitoring, evaluation and learning programmes.
This role will report to the Director of Evaluation and Research. Main Duties:
• Direct and lead our project teams to deliver high quality monitoring, evaluation, research and learning activities that fully respond to our clients' needs and requirements.
• Direct and lead bids and bid teams to help us win monitoring, evaluation, and research work across a wide range of sectors and contexts, especially in target areas focusing on girls' education, climate change, biodiversity, humanitarian and stabilisation programming and policy.
• Support the continuous development and progression of our team, practice, and business as a whole as a line manager and senior technical expert.
• Lead and contribute to the development of our growth and development strategies for the E&R Practice, UK business and wider Tetra Tech globally.
• Line management responsibility for specific direct reports including annual setting of KPIs, conducting mid-year and end-of-year performance appraisals and regular supervision to ensure timely and effective feedback that helps them develop and progress on their career development pathways. This includes supporting learning and development through internal and external training opportunities.
• Contribute to developing the technical skills and expertise of the E&R Practice through mentoring, coaching, and regularly sharing knowledge and experiences.
• Taking a lead role (as required) in recruiting appropriate staff needed to grow the practice /business.
• Be an ambassador for Tetra Tech in the market; promote our interests and reputation.
• Protect our confidential information and intellectual property.
• Promote and ensure full compliance (including by team members /staff) with all statutory and company HSSE policies, standards, procedures, systems, and codes of conduct.
• Play an active role in your safety and the safety of others around you., Strategy development - As a senior manager contribute to the development of the annual growth and development strategy and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) for the E&R Practice, the UK business as a whole and global growth /collaboration initiatives across Tetra Tech more widely.
• Commercial acumen - Ensure that projects that you direct, and lead are delivered to plan, to the required quality and within the approved budget - including:
• Accountability for regular project financial reporting in liaison with the Project Manager.
• Ensuring financial targets are met throughout the Financial Year and intervening if this is not the case.
• Taking a proactive approach (in collaboration with other managers) to ensure that staff utilisation on bids and projects is as efficient as possible whilst maintaining a reasonable work-life balance.
  
  Trusted client advisor - Act as a trusted advisor to our clients by leading the development and implementation of robust and useful technical solutions that meet their learning and accountability needs; and being ready to adapt these when situations and their needs change.
• Project leadership - Ability to lead, drive and influence diverse teams to deliver high quality work that fully responds to our clients' requirements.
• Strong client relationship management skills are an essential competency to ensure that the way that we work fully meets client expectations and that deliverables are submitted on time, within budget and to the required quality.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, relationship management and communication skills to ensure that project partners and individual contractors /external consultants are effectively managed to deliver high quality inputs and outputs that meet the client's expectations.
• Strong methodological knowledge and expertise in rigorously (and appropriately) applying robust monitoring, evaluation, research and learning approaches across a range of international development programmes, sectors, and contexts is essential.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills (i.e., clear, confident, articulate) are an essential requirement including proven experience in report writing and presentation skills.
• Strong commitment to delivering high quality analytical products.
• Demonstrated experience and ability in directing and leading competitive bids and bid teams to develop approaches and methodologies across monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning.
• Ability to lead the development of strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, suppliers, and consultants as part of the bid process including leading and managing complex negotiations.
• Strategic networking and partnerships - Take initiative and lead the development and maintenance of strategic partnerships and relationships with partners, clients, and external consultants., A working knowledge of a range of software applications and strong computer skills including Microsoft Windows Word, Excel, Office, Outlook, Project, and PowerPoint.
• Strong team player, able to work under limited supervision, take initiative and manage people effectively.
• Demonstrates high levels of initiative, problem solving and organisational agility i.e., ability to 'think on your feet'.
• Able to plan for and meet reporting deadlines and being accountable for outcomes.
• Strong organisational skills with high attention to detail.
• Ability to multi-task, juggle competing demands, prioritise work and delegate effectively.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree from a recognised tertiary institution in a relevant subject (e.g., social science, evaluation) is required.
• Relevant postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
  
  Tetra Tech is a leading provider of consulting and engineering services worldwide. It supports government and commercial clients with innovative solutions focused on international development, climate mitigation and adaptation, environmental sustainability, biodiversity, conservation, land reform, infrastructure, urban development, transport, water, and resource management. With 28,000 associates worldwide in over 120 countries, Tetra Tech's capabilities span the entire project cycle.
Tetra Tech International Development Europe is Tetra Tech's European business unit focused on International Development. We are based in London with offices in Kenya, Nigeria, Poland, and the Netherlands. We deliver international development programmes focused on economic growth, governance and justice/security, and infrastructure, for clients such as the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the United Nations, the European Union, the European Investment Bank and other donors and funding agencies. We also have a strong in-house Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Practice consisting of 35 evaluators, statisticians, economists, social scientists, and research managers. Over Values, Tetra Tech International Development has robust policies and guidelines which exemplify our commitment to safeguarding and technical excellence in gender equality. Our team of dedicated GEDSI advisers work closely with our staff and partners to ensure a context-specific and consistent approach is applied to all of our programmes to improve the livelihoods of the world's most marginalised groups.