Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director, Integrated Health Service Delivery Activity at Palladium Group

The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Director is a full-time position and will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the program monitoring and evaluation framework and information system to track delivery against targets/projections, indicators, outcomes, and impact. They will be responsible for ensuring valid and verifiable data collection, reporting and analysis, and communicating program results to USAID and external stakeholders. They will link M&E data to a process of learning and iterative adaptation.

• This is a proposal position and is contingent upon an award from USAID. 

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Work closely with Technical Leads as part of the senior leadership team to determine and support the project's strategic objectives.
• Lead the development and monitoring of annual MEL workplans, and review and update the project’s MEL plan on an on-going basis.
• Develop and implement a framework for project results measurement, accountability, learning and development effectiveness to measure and report project success, including articulation of Theories of Change (ToC).
• Work closely with the technical leads of project components to ensure compatibility and coordination within the M&E framework and ensure that the MEL system adheres to USAID guidelines and meets the needs of the program for learning, analysis, and reporting.
• Focus on strengthening the M&E system, building capacity of partners and staff, and improving alignment and support to host-country M&E systems.
• Institute routine data reviews as part of an adaptive management process including analysing, interpreting, and presenting data to project management and technical leads
• Responsible for developing and designing project systems to track program progress against indicators, collecting and verifying information and maintaining performance monitoring plans, reports, work plans and monthly reports.

Key Competencies Required

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in developing and implementing MEL and Continued Learning and Adaptive Management preferably for a USAID or similar donor funded programs.
• Master’s degree or higher in M&E, Statistics, Economics, Public Health or related field.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and utilizing monitoring tools related to program and project monitoring.
• Proficiency in using large national health-related and service delivery databases.
• Proficiency in using data collection, cleaning and analysis software.
• Demonstrated experience in establishing and managing MEL systems that track project performance and results and
• USAID's standard foreign assistance indicators.
• Demonstrated analytical skills to measure the outcomes of the project’s activities and support project supervision
• Demonstrated experience in gathering, organizing, and analyzing large amounts of data as well as the ability to design manageable, transparent M&E systems that report progress against indicators throughout the life
• Prior experience developing, implementing, and managing performance monitoring plans (PMPs).
• Excellent organizational and management skills to manage MEL teams and activities
• Demonstrated experience with complex donor-funded development projects
• Strong understanding of USAID regulations and M&E reporting requirements, preferably in the [the proposal and envisioned project/activity] sector.