Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Manager - USAID- funded Zambia Sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Partnerships Project
RTI International
- Lusaka
- Permanent
- Full-time
Responsibilities
- Leads the development, implementation, refinement, and harmonization of the project’s MEL system, develops and operationalizes indicators, sets targets, and monitors progress; ensures they are informed by and feed into program decisions.
- Establishes systems for gathering, reporting, and analyzing performance data in compliance with USAID guidelines and best practices.
- Assesses data quality through (1) system validation rules and checks in the activity database, and (2) periodic data quality assessments (DQAs).
- Designs data collection processes adhering to data quality.
- Monitors progress against targets and prepares quality reports; contributes to other project reports such as annual work plans.
- Leads and proactively reviews/analyzes project activities and their outputs and outcomes to continuously learn from and adapt ongoing project implementation; provides feedback to the technical team on where to improve.
- Documents best practices and lessons learned and uses data and regular learning sessions to drive program design, adaptation, and decision-making.
- Integrates data collection and learning throughout all project activities.
- Build capacity of partners and stakeholders for data collection and data use for learning.
- Other responsibilities as assigned.
- Master’s degree with 6 years of experience, or Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of skills and experience.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in MEL and data analysis in international development programs.
- Knowledge of reporting procedures, best practices, guidelines, methods, and approaches for MEL.
- Excellent management, communication, and organizational skills (attention to detail is required); flexibility and capacity to multi-task.
- Demonstrated ability to lead design and implementation of monitoring systems, databases, and data collection tools.
- Demonstrated experience using data and learning to inform program decision-making.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- Experience with MEL that measures and promotes gender and social inclusion.
- Experience working in Zambia preferred.
- Experience working on WASH related projects preferred.
- Ability to travel and work throughout Zambia.