Responsibilities:

• The Senior Manager: MEL will be responsible for overseeing the implementation and management of the consortium’s 5-year MEL plan, as well as monitoring and evaluating its progress and outcomes.
• The role involves ensuring that appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems and frameworks are in place to track program performance and learning and using this information to inform decision-making and improve program effectiveness. His/her role in the program will be to:
• Collaborate with BRILLIANT program leads and consortium partners/stakeholders to regularly review the MEL objectives and develop/enhance monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
• Implement systems to track program activities, outputs, and outcomes and generate relevant reports. This includes developing/reviewing indicators, data collection tools, and data management systems and monitoring implementation at regular intervals.
• Ensure data quality assurance and provide training for corrective actions.
• Prepare and present program information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Facilitate a learning culture within the BRILLIANT program by promoting reflection, documentation, and dissemination of lessons learned and best practices; and
• Collaborate with BRILLIANT program committees, partner organizations and USAID to establish strong working relationships and promote effective communication and coordination.

Core Requirements:

• A 4-year degree in management, business or administration.
• Have extensive experience in the area of monitoring, evaluation and learning, especially with international funders.
• At least 5 years of experience as a Senior Manager: MEL.
• 3 – 5 years project management experience.

Advantageous:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in biomedical science or related discipline.
• Display evidence of working productively as part of a team, and leading teams.
• Project management qualification and project management experience.
• Demonstrated experience working in a health research environment/project(s).
• Preferably demonstrated experience in working across multiple consortium partners in other countries
• Working knowledge/background in health research.