Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Director

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Director, USAID/Nepal Better Health Activity

Job Category: Monitoring & Evaluation
Requisition Number: MONIT006656
Location: Nepal – Katmandu

Job Details
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Summary

Save the Children is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Director for an anticipated 5-year USAID/Nepal Better Health Activity. This activity will support the three tiers of government to improve the health system, focusing on governance, demand-side barriers and community accountability, and quality of health care at the facility and community level. The activity will improve the quality of care for maternal, newborn, and family planning services, and will also strengthen readiness of health facilities and the health system for possible future health emergencies.

The MEAL Director will develop, implement, and continuously improve MEAL systems for all project activities. The Director will incorporate best practices to ensure information collected is accurate, timely, and disseminated appropriately in high quality reports. The MEAL team will use these findings to improve the program and achieve activity objectives. In addition, they will also be actively involved in promoting learning through documentation of lessons learned and developing approaches for community analysis and using data for decision making. The position will be based in Kathmandu.

This position is contingent upon donor approval and funding.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

• Provide leadership, training, and mentoring to develop and implement MEAL activities (including designing tools, conducting data collection and analysis, and sharing and using data) to assess and improve program impact.
• Develop MEAL plan and systems for capturing and documenting data and relevant information on project activities, beneficiaries, outputs, outcomes, and impact.
• Design methodology and coordinate research activities for project operations and assessments.
• Effectively rollout MEAL collection and reporting systems to all staff and partners through training, site visits, manuals, and other technical support as needed.
• Capture appropriate cost information to track financial indicators, including benchmarking information to analyze program effectiveness and cost-effective inputs.
• Ensure programming alignment to targets and indicators contained in project proposal and use the information from the MEAL systems and tools to improve program effectiveness.
• Develop a dynamic and collaborative culture for data use, applying a collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) framework.
• Support all project reviews and evaluation activities, including coordinating mid-term and final evaluations, and supporting donor and external reviews.
• Provide on-going support to maintain MEAL systems; identify skill gaps and build capacity among project team members, partners, and stakeholders.
• Align MEAL systems to complement and enhance existing government health management and information systems (HMIS).
• Prepare high quality, accurate and timely reports for Save the Children, project partners, and donors as required.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, or related field is required.
• Advanced training in quantitative methodologies, including database management; experience in qualitative research techniques a plus.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation related to health systems strengthening (HSS); maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH); and/or other public health programming.
• Strong analytical skills and an understanding of monitoring, evaluation and assessment tools to promote evidence-based learning.
• Ability to analyze complex data and summarize the inputs for a range of audiences.
• Demonstrated skills required to gain support from staff across teams and to build the capacity of others.
• Sound strategic thinking and planning skills, including ability to think creatively, innovate, and set manageable work plans and priorities and evaluate progress.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Nepali required.
• Familiarity with the political, social, and cultural context of Nepal.

Qualified local national candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

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