Regional Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager – Sightsavers

Regional Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager: Sightsavers

Deadline: 20 March 2022

Location: ECSA – preferred locations Kenya, Zambia or Uganda

Contract: 2 Year fixed term contract

Salary: Local terms and conditions apply

About

Sightsavers is recruiting for an experienced Monitoring, Evaluations and Learning (MEL) Manager to ensure high standards of monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting on project and programme results across the ECSA regional portfolio. With excellent knowledge of the region and Sightsavers’ portfolio, the MEL Manager will understand the performance of our work regionally and will help to realize and share programmatic and thematic learning within, and across, the ECSA portfolio.

As Monitoring, Evaluations and Learning Manager you will utilize your expertise in all aspects of project monitoring throughout the project life cycle, to provide technical support to Country Office teams and other key stakeholders. You will work collaboratively with others to strengthen data management, improve the quality and timeliness of reporting, and increase the utilization of monitoring data in decision making and for learning and adaptation of projects. This will also include support to the project baseline and end-line assessments, evaluations and reviews. Qualified internal candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Main responsibilities

Collaborating with institutional fundraising teams, global technical advisors and Country Office teams in the development of project proposals. Tasks may include sharing learning from other projects or evaluations within the region, facilitating theory of change development and / or designing logical frameworks; Leading on the design of MEL plans in close collaboration with MEL advisors; Supporting the Head of Team, the Senior MEL Manager and Senior MEL Advisors to identify, test, and drive forward new MEL approaches; Supporting project evaluations, baseline and endline assessments, the collection, analysis and use of inclusive data, particularly disability data; Providing technical support to country teams on their monitoring practice over the project lifecycle; Proactively contributing to the development and strengthening of the regional portfolio; Facilitating the oversight of the regional portfolio as per Sightsavers’ internal oversight processes and being a critical friend in order to hold others to account; Maintaining open lines of communication among internal stakeholders about regional performance and using judgment to escalate risk when needed; Presenting MEL data and evidence in order to contribute to recommendations on resource oversight and allocation for thematic portfolios; Contributing to the strategic development and direction of the MEL team, and to the development and implementation of thematic MEL frameworks.