Job Summary
The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Advisor occupies a critical role within the STrengthening Infectious disease DEtection Systems (STRIDES) Activity, including overseeing the execution of day-to-day MEL activities, implementing policies and processes, and ensuring quality data collection, analysis, and reporting to ensure evidence-based decision-making. This position will provide home office backstopping to a large-scale global project, working directly with country teams, technical teams in the home office, global partners and clients, to ensure that FHI 360 is fulfilling its mission as an evidence-driven, adaptive and effective actor on the global stage. The incumbent plays a crucial role in providing quality assurance for monitoring, evaluation and learning. Strong communication and teamwork skills are of absolute importance to succeed in this role, as is the ability to manage individual and team contributions across projects and time zones. This position offers vast opportunities for creative, passionate individuals who care about development, and who have demonstrated commitment and success in infusing learning and adaptive management into development programs.
Accountabilities
Technical Requirements:
Provides project staff with overall technical direction and guidance to support planning, implementation of, and reporting against STRIDES Activity, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan (AMELP).
In close collaboration with project staff, Leads MEL activities and sub activities and assists with their implementation, supports staff and partner capacity building in MEL.
Monitors and maintains project protocols, instruments, data sets, manuals, training materials and reports related to monitoring and evaluation of projects.
Works closely with the team to ensure AMELP implementation remains technically sound and adheres to company strategy and standard operating procedures (SOP’s).
Develops or writes technical briefs, reports, or other necessary materials to facilitate research, best practices, policies, procedures, and overall implementation of evaluation plans.