Nick Thorne
About Nick Thorne
Nick Thorne serves as the Regional Monitoring Manager at Sightsavers, where he has worked since 2018, overseeing a significant budget for an Inclusive Eye Health project. He has a diverse background in project monitoring and evaluation across various organizations, including the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and the British Council.
Work at Sightsavers
Nick Thorne has served as the Regional Monitoring Manager at Sightsavers since 2018, based in Haywards Heath. In this role, he manages a £60,000 Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) budget as part of a £3 million Inclusive Eye Health project in Bangladesh and Pakistan. His responsibilities include conducting internal quality standards assessments of project cycle management practices and providing technical support to country teams during project implementation. Prior to his current position, he worked as a Project Monitoring Officer at Sightsavers for three months in 2017.
Previous Experience
Before joining Sightsavers, Nick Thorne held various positions that contributed to his expertise in project management and monitoring. He worked at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy as a Programme Officer for the Middle East and North Africa from 2016 to 2017 and for Europe and Central Asia for five months in 2016. Additionally, he served as a Translator and Press Summary Writer at Ausschnitt Medienbeobachtungs Agentur GmbH in Berlin for four months in 2013. His early career included a role as an English Language Assistant at the British Council in Kourou, French Guiana, from 2009 to 2010, and as a Debating Mentor at Debate Mate in London from 2008 to 2010.
Education and Expertise
Nick Thorne studied at Oxford Brookes University, where he completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Shelter After Disaster in 2012, focusing on Development and Emergency Practice. He also holds a BA Hons in International Relations and French and German from the University of Sussex, which he earned from 2007 to 2011. His foundational education includes studies at All Saints RC School York, where he focused on Politics, Ethics and Philosophy, French, and German from 2004 to 2006.
Project Management and Capacity Building
In his current role, Nick Thorne leads the design of logframes and monitoring frameworks for projects in Asia and Francophone West Africa. He facilitates capacity building workshops and training aimed at improving data collection and reporting systems for disability disaggregated data. His work emphasizes enhancing the effectiveness of monitoring practices and ensuring that project outcomes align with established quality standards.