Program Manager. Amman. Posting Date: 10/22/2025. Deadline: 11/05/2025
Role Title: Program Manager, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL)
Contract Type: Regular
Reporting To: Associate Director, Network Grants
Program/Department/Unit Name: Programs
Location: Seoul or Amman.
Team Name: Opportunities/Network Grants
Role Purpose
The purpose of this role is to own and drive a MEL component within the Managing Directors Offices (MDOs) that informs an integrated programming, renewal process and foster a unified approach to learning as developed and overseen by the SIU. This position plays a key role in generating evidence and learning to provide strategic answers, explore the unknown and feed into a broader organizational learning framework, and enabling a greater alignment and/or complementarity, coordination, and mutual reinforcement between different MDOs and across other internal stakeholders. The role involves developing measurement frameworks, designing and managing data analytics, evaluations, driving and connecting a multi-level learning component, reporting mechanisms and coordination of reporting across programmatic work; and project management and implementation of cross-cutting initiatives and projects.
Key responsibilities
The , Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL), will help provide strategy implementation support for the Managing Directors: they will provide guidance and support in creating joint collective learning review frameworks across opportunities, Network Grants, Geographic Policy groups and other programs units (IFC, JI, etc.) as part of a broader organizational learning system consolidated and managed by the SIU. From individual strategies and workplans, they will help pull intersections and complementary to provide an overarching coherent MEL focus. They will also provide support in foresight and analysis as part of the development of new opportunities
Quality Assurance at MDOs: Based on agreed internal quality standards, clear benchmarks and expectations developed at the level of the MDOs, the Program Manager will help translate these requirements into high-quality services that can help teams understand what is required for effective MEL, data validity, quality reporting, etc., and ensure oversight over these functions. The Program Manager will lead in the elaboration of cross-cutting MEL frameworks, work with designated focal points within each office to collect, populate and ensure data consistency for dashboards and other analytic products that show the whole of work across the units
Collective Learning Spaces: in close collaboration with the SIU, they will help build bridges across Opportunities, NG, GL and other parts of the network by crafting and facilitating spaces for peer exchanges and learning, cross pollination and ensure creative ways of socialization and promoting a learning culture. The MEL Program Manager will lead on production of learning reports, ad-hoc research and/or case studies that will help capture and analyze progress and impact and address higher strategic questions to inform a broader organizational learning framework.
Rigorous Examination: the MEL Program Manager will maintain knowledge of and relationships with internal and outsourced capacities needed to ensure the highest quality of thinking is available to the network in strategy pursuit. they will help provide collect rigorous feedback to ensure adherence to standards
As part of a MEL plan, lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of day-to-day MEL activities that help catalyze and maintain the MDOs on impact and promising ideas on the frontiers of systems change.
Design and own MDOs learning processes and tools to capture, analyze and document learning substance from different stakeholders to feed a learning agenda. Facilitate small or large learning spaces in different formats and deliver presentations to internal and external audiences.
Ensure that MDOs learning component is connected vertically and horizontally and coherent with a broader learning system managed by the SIU. Support the provision of services and guidance that foster cross-cutting approaches to the MDOs that will help unleash potential to successfully implement their strategies in a coordinated manner.
Embed MEL functions in the MDOs, and promote and support adherence to principles, quality standards, criteria, and guidelines.
Create dashboards and other analytic products that the MDOs use to view the big picture and understand strategic direction, track progress and innovation, and explore emerging trends and learning pathways.
Co-creating reporting mechanisms to liaise with the SIU for MEL-related questions and work as a trusted partner to all parts of the network to ensure fidelity to the Opportunity model, rigorous assessment of strategies, consistent support to teams, demonstrate flexibility and capability to adapt and shift โincluding based on effective learning-derived information.
Travel is required. Travel frequency depends on the role requirements.
Key internal relationships
Managing Directors, Associate Directors, Program Managers and Administration Officers across all Managing Directors offices, Strategy and Impact Unit
Key external relationships
Strategy and impact leaders outside of OSF, including on foresight, MEL, complexity, systems change, consultants, etc., inside and outside of philanthropy, and partners.
The ideal candidate
Substantial experience working on MEL and/or designing and managing Learning for cross-department, cross-programs, or similarly complex projects.