Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Director – USAID Strengthening Integrated Health Services Activity (SIHSA)

Summary purpose and objective of role

• Lead the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team and their delivery of a MEL strategy that reflects the diverse components of this complex, integrated health systems program, facilitates adaptive delivery and learning, and enables highest quality reporting in line with USAID requirements.
• Oversee a comprehensive Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) approach that ensures lessons are informing project adaptation and improvement and are shared widely with stakeholders across Sierra Leone and globally.
• Ensure overarching, inclusive, and participatory approaches to data collection, validation, and utilization which builds MEL capacity and skills across the program partners and informs program implementation, adaptation, and learning.
• Ensure a knowledge management system is designed and maintained which captures and share best practices, lessons learned, and success stories and fosters knowledge sharing within the consortium and with external partners to maximize the project’s impact.

Person specification

• Minimum of 10 years working on monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning in the field of public health, reproductive, maternal, newborn child and adolescent health, family planning, social and behaviour change communication, as well as knowledge of monitoring of results-based financing programs.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in collecting, analysing, and managing donor-funded project data for health projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing M&E systems consistent with USAID protocols for data collection and reporting.
• At least 3 years of experience with USAID’s CLA approach, including developing and integrating the CLA approach within project frameworks and leading CLA approaches across partners and technical focus areas to yield successful collaboration and integration.
• Familiarity with USG administrative, management, and reporting procedures and systems. Excellent English oral and written communication and presentations skills.
• Experience living or working in Sierra Leone is preferred.
• Leadership and influencing skills.
• Strategic thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills
• Strong administration and organizational skills, good time management
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing.

Other information

Benefits

Options offers a competitive, comprehensive benefits package specific to each country, for further information please contact HR at opportunities@options.co.uk.

Other information

• Options is dedicated to equal opportunity for all and recognises that every individual is unique. Whilst we always seek to embrace individual differences and celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we also want to ensure that every team member is suited to their role and that they are given the best opportunity to succeed*.*
• Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.
• We seek people who are pro-choice, promote diversity and inclusion, are energetic and enthusiastic about Options’ vision.