Job Vacancy @ Abt Associates – Monitoring Eval and Learning Director
Job Identification : 102337
Job Category : Program Delivery
Locations : Abt Associates, Freetown, SL
Posting Date : 08/17/2022, 08:59 PM
Apply Before : 09/07/2022, 08:59 PM
Job Schedule : Full time
Job Description
Opportunity:
Abt Associates seeks qualified Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director for an upcoming USAID-funded opportunity in Sierra Leone, the Strengthening Integrated Health Services (SIHSA) Activity. The Activity will focus on sustainably improving the quality of family planning, maternal newborn child and adolescent health, and malaria services; promoting the adoption of crucial health behaviors; and strengthening the stewardship and governance of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation at both central and district levels. The overall goal of the Activity is to contribute to the Government of of Sierra Leone’s overarching goal of improving the health of adolescents, pregnant and postpartum women, and children less than five years old.
Under the supervision of the Chief of Party (COP), the MEL Director is responsible for designing the project’s monitoring, evaluation, and learning agenda and creating systems to measure and document program process, output and impact data results by routinely and systematically collecting, analyzing and presenting program data for project staff, partners and donors. The MEL Director is responsible for tracking progress towards goals and fidelity to implementation design as well as recommending appropriate subjects for operations research. We are looking for individuals who are committed to exceeding expectations and who strive to improve the lives of people worldwide.
The position is based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and is contingent upon award to Abt Associates.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of the project MEL Plan, indicators, and learning agenda, including developing relevant indicators.
- Manage a rigorous approach to M&E to measure performance toward specific goals and objectives, including quantitative, qualitative, and participatory methodologies.
- Design data collection tools, schedules, analysis methods, and applied learning approaches for stakeholder training.
- Develop mechanisms to establish feedback loops to ensure that learning approaches and trainings inform and contribute to achievement of objectives under communications and training activities.
- Oversee implementation of a baseline study on the indicators, including review of tools and survey methodology and review of data quality and analysis.
- Oversee and lead qualitative and quantitative data collection processes and strategies as needed.
- Contribute to quarterly strategy reviews as well as drafting core components of program progress reports to the client.
- Drive the project’s overall learning agenda to derive lessons learned and best practices from project activities and contribute to quarterly program evaluations.
- Design and maintain integrity of project’s MEL database.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in statistics, social science, development economics or a related field. Masters preferred.
- At least twelve years of experience in data management and analysis for M&E, learning and adaptive management.
- Skills in qualitative and quantitative analytical methods, data collection and analysis, and establishing MEL systems. Demonstrated ability to lead baseline data collection and analyses.
- Knowledge of and experience with M&E frameworks, and reporting systems.
- Experience with USAID programming highly preferred.
- Proficiency in Excel, Word, and other MS Office software; data analysis software, e.g., SPSS or Stata.
- Demonstrated leadership skills and ability working collaboratively and independently.
- Demonstrated team player with effective cross-cultural interpersonal skills; able to develop and communicate a common vision among diverse partners and lead multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to resolve sensitive and complicated work issues with senior high-level country counterparts, donor representative and senior-level staff
- Strong communications, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree + Fifteen years of relevant experience, or Master’s Degree + Twelve years of relevant experience, or PhD + Ten years of relevant experience
Abt Associates is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse workforce. Abt Associates provides market-competitive salaries and comprehensive employee benefits. Local candidates strongly encouraged to apply.
Disclaimer: Abt Associates will never ask candidates for money in exchange for an offer of employment.
