Head of Monitoring Evaluation and Learning at Options Consultancy Services Limited

Job Description

Options Consultancy Services Limited is a consultancy organisation providing technical and management expertise in the health and social sectors to governments and international development partners to transform the health of women and children. We provide information, expertise and influence to governments, health workers, NGOs and businesses to catalyse change so that health services can be accessed by the people who need them most.

Responsibilities: 

Overseeing the M&E function of the Support to the ALM Programme and operationalise the programme’s MEL strategy liaising and working closely with the Data hub and partners Lead the ongoing development, refinement of and reporting against the Programme Results Framework, drawing on partners’ inputs Develop a (system for capturing, storing and analysing) programme results and milestones tracking template for use across the programme and support partners to use it to track programme progress Provide technical support to consortium partners in the design of innovative and participatory monitoring and evaluation methodologies and tools to assess outputs and outcomes of the programme and working closely with the Data hub, provide capacity support to partners to utilize the tools Work closely with MEL point persons across the ALM partner organisations to ensure M&E workplans are in place and operationalised Follow up to ensure timely submission of M&E data by consortium implementing partners and quality assure the deliverables

Person specification: 

Minimum of 10 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation, data management in a large-scale, multi-country development programme Experience in programme performance measurement and developing monitoring, evaluation and learning monitoring plans Strong understanding of programme and evaluation cycles, data analysis and presentation of results Experience leading the design and implementation of evaluation methodologies (qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods) and data collection and analysis methodologies Experience in MEL for gender and rights-based Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and Google Docs Excellent English verbal and written communication skills Ability to multi-task and cover multiple work streams simultaneously, to work independently, and as a team member, under pressure and to deadlines