Learning, Monitoring, and Evaluation Director

Jhpiego seeks a Learning, Monitoring, and Evaluation (LME) Director to provide technical leadership, oversight and strategic direction for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities on an upcoming USAID-funded Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Activity in Ethiopia. The DRM Activity aims to enable timely anticipatory and early action to preempt crises and reduce the impact of shocks in Ethiopia by strengthening DRM planning and preparedness, improving DRM coordination, and enhancing resource mobilization and management. The activity will also strengthen gender in emergencies capacity, increase private-sector engagement in DRM, and expand local organization’s capacity to engage in DRM. The activity will support the implementation of Ethiopia’s new Disaster Risk Management Policy and Disaster Risk Finance Strategy. The project is anticipated to operate over a 5-year period.

The LME Director will provide technical leadership to develop project framework, M&E systems and indicators to capture performance results and provide effective, accurate and timely monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all project activities. The LME Director will supervise and manage the M&E team and oversee the collection, management, analysis and use of project data, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into project implementation to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes. The LME Director is responsible for documenting and disseminating project successes, challenges and lessons learned to USAID. The Director will also be responsible for designing and conducting assessments, operations research and evaluations to address project needs. The LME Director will liaise with and support consortium partners to implement learning, monitoring, and evaluation activities.

This position is contingent upon award from USAID. Ethiopia nationals are strongly encouraged to apply. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

• Provide leadership and direction on LME to ensure the project achieves its goals and corresponding objectives and targets
• Oversee the development and implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) to efficiently track, use and disseminate performance indicators and results over the life of the project, including routine service delivery data reporting, baseline and end line assessments, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations
• Supervise a team of M&E professionals, ensuring high-quality implementation of all monitoring, evaluation and learning activities
• Develop and oversee implementation of robust context-appropriate systems for data collection, quality assurance, analysis and reporting on activity outputs/outcomes and program quality
• Lead results reporting to USAID by providing written documentation on M&E activities and indicator results for progress and annual reports, as appropriate
• Ensure alignment of project systems and approaches with Ethiopian national monitoring and evaluation guidelines, protocols, information, and reporting systems
• Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with monitoring, evaluation and learning counterparts in other USAID projects national institutions, and key stakeholders, leading initiatives to learn from project data and adapt intervention strategies as appropriate
• Lead efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and recordkeeping
• Use data to contribute towards strategic decision-making and project planning with project leadership
• Support project leadership to champion holistic approaches to collaboration, learning and adapting (CLA), including design and implementation of an action-oriented project research and learning agenda, routine analysis of available data sources, and application of best practices in knowledge management
• Oversee and/or conduct targeted assessment, evaluations and operations research, ensuring compliance with Johns Hopkins University institutional and local review board policies
• Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures including routine data quality audits and that these are routinely carried out during the project lifecycle
• Represent M&E activities in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations
• Ensure relevant data is entered into Jhpiego’s organization-wide performance management system designed to capture, analyze, and disseminate project data
• Ensure project compliance with USAID monitoring, evaluation, research and open data policies
• Promote and support the dissemination of project information among the project team
• Work with project and financial staff to prepare and track progress of project and activity budgets
• Train and mentor project staff and implementing partners in monitoring and evaluation methods, tools, and systems
• Ensure protection of participant data and confidentiality during all monitoring, evaluation and research implementation and dissemination processes
• Support the designated Internal Review Board (IRB) focal point in-country including maintaining current certification from 1) CITI human subjects ethics course and 2) CITI Good Clinical Practices (GCP) course

• Master’s degree in demography, sociology, biostatistics, or a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of nine (9) years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multi-year international development projects
• Monitoring and evaluation experience in a related sector, such as disaster risk management or preparedness, resilience building, capacity building, public policy, etc.
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methodologies, implementation research approaches, data visualization and reporting
• Demonstrated strong management, coordination, teamwork and planning skills with proven ability to function effectively with multiple host-country counterparts in both the public, NGO and private sectors
• Strong technical skills, including the ability to process and analyze multiple sources of data to identify data trends and provide recommendations on project implementation and one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Excel
• Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector
• Experience hiring and supervising personnel and ensuring they acquire the necessary training and skills to meet evolving project needs
• Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, organizational, team-building, and representational skills
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in regional and national projects and technical staff
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including oral, reading, and written proficiency in English
• Proficiency in word processing, Microsoft Office
• Ability to travel nationally, security permitting

 Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.

How to Apply

Please apply at: www.jobs-jhpiego.icims.com

Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, references, and salary history.

For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

 Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer