Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Manager for FCI Project

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Country MEL System Design and Implementation

 

• Lead the development, periodic review, and implementation of the country-level MEL plan and systems, including country implementation plans, indicator reference sheets, data collection and reporting tools, tailored from the global MEL framework and appropriate to the country context.

• Adapt and apply the global indicators, definitions, and MEL minimum standards at country level to ensure consistent, comparable reporting.

• Contribute MEL inputs to country work planning and ensure MEL activities are included and tracked against the work plan.

• Establish country data collection and management across community, spokes, hubs, and national reporting systems.

 

Data Quality, Analysis, and Reporting

 

• Lead country data collection, entry, management, cleaning, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of performance and contextual indicators.

• Conduct routine data quality assessments (RDQAs/DQAs), data verification, and data review meetings to ensure high-quality data are captured and reported.

• Contribute to donor and government reports, including periodic donor reporting (e.g., DATIM or the applicable GHSD reporting system), narratives, and dashboards.

• Support preparation of technical presentations, learning products, and evidence of summaries for country and consortium stakeholders.

• Provide the Country Project Director and Technical Director with timely data, dashboards, and analysis for program management and decision-making.

• Promote routine analysis and interpretation of data to identify implementation of bottlenecks and inform adaptive management.

 

National Systems Alignment and Data Use

 

• Align country MEL with national M&E guidelines and health information systems (HMIS/DHIS2, and disease-specific platforms) and support integration of faith-based, community, and private health providers into the national reporting system, where appropriate.

• Collaborate with MOH (HMIS/DHIS2, other platforms), CHAs, FBOs, and other partners to ensure FCI reporting requirements are appropriately reflected within relevant national and partner health information systems.

• Contribute MEL requirements and technical inputs to interoperability and electronic reporting initiatives, where applicable, to support alignment of FCI reporting with national health information systems.

• Work with provincial/regional and District Health Management Teams (DHMTs) and MOH counterparts, and implementing partners to ensure timely collection, reporting, validation, and use of routine data through national systems, consistent with the FCI Consortium’s ‘HMIS/DHIS2-first, not parallel systems’ principle.

• Support referral and counter-referral tracking and continuity-of-care measurement and monitoring of the Hub-and-Spoke service delivery model, while promoting data use and continuous quality improvement (CQI) at community, facility, and district levels.

• Support the transition agenda by strengthening country capacity to use and sustain national health information systems so that FCI monitoring and reporting can increasingly be integrated into routine government systems over the life of the program.

 

Capacity Building and Supervision

 

• Supervise and provide guidance to country MEL staff (e.g., MEL Officers, data/database officers).

• Lead capacity development of local sub-partners through training, mentoring, and coaching in data management, data quality, analysis, reporting, and data use.

 

 

Learning, Evaluation, and Research

 

• Document and share country innovations, lessons learned, and promising practices with the Global MEL Team to support cross-country learning, adaptive management, and continuous improvement.

• Support the planning and implementation of learning activities and, where required, contribute to evaluations, operational research, and special studies in response to evolving project priorities and the needs of the consortium, partners, and donor.

 

Minimum Education/Experience required

 

• Bachelor’s degree required (master’s preferred) in epidemiology, statistics, public health, monitoring and evaluation, demography, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years’ MEL experience on donor-funded health programs, including design and implementation of country MEL plans and data quality assurance.
• Demonstrated experience with national health information systems and data platforms (HMIS/DHIS2), donor reporting systems (e.g., DATIM), and working with MOH/DHMT counterparts.
• Experience conducting DQAs, strengthening routine health information systems, and supporting data use for decision making.
• Strong data analysis, visualization, interpretation, and communication skills using commonly used statistical, database, and dashboard software.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English; proficiency in the national/local language(s) strongly preferred. Experience in fragile/conflict-affected contexts and faith-based programming preferred.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only