Monitoring and Evaluation Lead

Monitoring and Evaluation Lead (BHA Early Recovery, Risk Reduction, and Resilience Activity) – Nepal

Corus International is a family of organizations which believes that those who were born into impossible circumstances deserve the opportunity for a better life. Corus was formed through the strategic merger of IMA World Health (operating as a public health organization since 1960), and Lutheran World Relief (operating as a livelihoods organization since 1945), and today includes the smaller entities of Charlie Goldsmith Associates, Ground Up Investing, and Farmers Market Coffee. Corus International works in over 20 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, with a primary focus on health, livelihoods, and emergency response.

Corus International’s country portfolio in Nepal has worked alongside the Nepal government, donors, and a variety of local and international partners since 2009. Programs reach marginalized communities through market systems facilitation, agriculture, food security, livelihoods, enterprise development, and disaster risk reduction activities. The portfolio includes a focus on both sustainable development and humanitarian assistance activities and operates out of Kathmandu.

Based in Kathmandu or in another program province, the M&E Lead will oversee the monitoring, evaluation, and learning components of the anticipated “”ER4 Activity,” which is expected to: 1 Strengthen community disaster risk management capacity to withstand and recover from disasters; 2) Improve coordination across tiers of the Government of Nepal (GoN) to enhance preparedness and response; 3) Build local capacity for implementing risk-informed interventions; and 4) Facilitate the development of resilient livelihoods and social protection mechanisms to reduce vulnerability to recurrent shocks. She/he will design, implement, and oversee the project’s M&E framework, ensuring that data is used to assess progress, inform decisions, and guide program improvement. This role will focus on integrating evidence-based learning across activities to enhance impact and accountability. The M&E Lead will ensure compliance with USAID’s performance monitoring requirements and oversee the preparation of high-quality reports and data for internal and donor use.

Actual hiring is contingent upon signed agreement and USAID approval.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure programmatic learning and results are fully documented, shared, and used to drive adaptive management processes.
• Oversee the program’s robust learning component, including providing technical assistance for the project baseline, mid-line, and endline, developing the M&E plan, and developing a research dissemination plan.
• Lead the collection, analysis, documentation, dissemination, and use of best practices and lessons learned.
• Develop and/or maintain strategic relationships with relevant stakeholders to promote effective coordination, collaboration, and dissemination of program learning.
• Ensure effective data collection and monitoring systems are in place to submit on-time, accurate, and quality reporting according to contract.
• Provide training and capacity-building for staff and partners on M&E practices and data management.
• Participate in relevant M&E technical working groups and coordinating bodies; work with relevant ministries on project-linked M&E, as appropriate.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative program impact surveys to ensure that project goals are met and that the team constantly improves program implementation quality.
• Conduct data quality reviews to ensure that all information required for submission to donor is collected in a valid, reliable, and timely manner.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field, such as monitoring and evaluation, data quality collection and analysis, surveys, or assessments.
• A minimum of five years of experience in designing and implementing M&E frameworks for resilience or humanitarian programs.
• Successful experience using a Learning Plan to inform activity implementation is preferred.
• Successful experience in training and building the capacity of staff in monitoring, evaluation, learning, and data collection.
• Expertise in survey design, data management, and quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Experience with USAID’s M&E requirements and familiarity with indicator-based performance tracking.
• Demonstrated experience using research methods to analyze project progress, communicate findings to a range of external and internal stakeholders, and apply learning to work planning.
• Proven experience collaborating and coordinating with local and national host government agencies, and other key stakeholders such as NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector.
• Proven experience aligning program activities and results with national strategies,
• Willingness and ability to travel to project sites in Nepal.
• English fluency with professional proficiency in writing required. Knowledge of Nepali is an asset.