Monitoring and Evaluation Director at Chemonics, Lusaka, Zambia

Responsibilities include:

Lead the development of the project’s MEL Plan, ensuring that it aligns with contract requirements and client objectives by providing overall technical leadership for all MEL activities and reporting, including routine process monitoring, data collection, data analysis, data quality, timeliness, and reporting

Ensure MEL activities are in line with the USAID Evaluation Policy and regularly provides as-requested MEL data to the client in a timely manner
Lead the design and operation of the program’s MEL systems to ensure standardization across country programs in indicators, data collection, and reporting
Oversee the collection of and reporting on program management, output, and outcome indicators by the country programs
Apply adaptive management strategies and facilitate learning activities to support staff to assess progress and continually refine programming

Lead the strategy and design of the research agenda, support the field team in refining and finalizing the project’s results framework, theory of change, and development hypothesis during work planning sessions
Ensure the creation and dissemination of program learning through strategic communication
Serve as the primary MEL liaison to a diverse group of stakeholders, including the Chief of Party (COP), the Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP), U.S. national and state government counterparts, African government counterparts, private sector associations, civil society organizations, and other key companies and organizations
Ensures sex-disaggregation of all person-level indicator to inform various project activity interventions
Develop budget estimates for MEL tasks and ensure that all Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs), services agreements, or other contractual arrangements with partners stipulate their responsibilities for data collection and monitoring
Supervise MEL Specialist to ensure execution of all MEL activities
Perform other duties as assigned by the Deputy Chief of Party

Qualifications:

A master’s degree or higher in statistics, research methods, information systems, or a related advanced degree
Candidate must be a citizen of Zambia with work experience in the country
At least eight years of experience of M&E systems development and implementation across multiple countries and for complex projects

Expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, research, management information systems, reporting, data quality assessments, and data analysis and visualization
Expertise in data analysis and using tools such as MS Excel and statistical packages
Experience managing and building capacity among a diverse team of professionals remotely and in-person
Ability to convey results to non-technical stakeholders, and to generate interest in the use of MEL results and help staff to make programmatic improvements desired
Experience in Malaria surveillance/integrated disease surveillance and response (IDSR) expertise preferred

Demonstrated ability to establish and develop working relationships and a high level of trust with public/private organizations as well as prepare regular and ad hoc reports, activity documentation and briefing papers
Demonstrated experience in strategic planning and using innovative approaches to solve complex problems

Experience supervising staff and overseeing MEL activities for USAID funded contracts, across multiple countries preferred
Project start up experience preferred

Chemonics