Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Advisor at Living Goods

Job Description (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); At Living Goods we empower people to improve the health of their families, friends and communities. Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ health entrepreneurs who go door to door to teach families how to improve their health and wealth and sell life-changing products such as simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, safe delivery kits, fortified foods, clean cook stoves, water filters, and solar lights. By combining the best practices from business and public health, we are dramatically lowering child mortality AND creating livelihoods for thousands of enterprising women. Living Goods supports a network of over 2, micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda and Kenya who teach families in their communities how to improve health and well-being while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook-stoves, and solar lights. As part of the Branch Team, you will play a key role in supporting Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) to deliver high quality health care to their communities and generate sales of critical products. Summary Of The PositionThe Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Advisor will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the project monitoring and evaluation framework and information system to track delivery against targets, outcomes, and impacts. They will lead the analysis of data collected for assessment of progress and areas of improvement, and overall data management, including health systems audit, monitoring, and learning.The candidate will guide reporting processes amongst Technical Staff and consolidate project reports, and promote learning and knowledge sharing of best practices and lessons learned. S/He will support all the technical staff in MEL functions and will manage any other staff working in the project. Actual hiring is contingent upon successful activity award and USAID approval.Duties And Responsibilities Work with Chief of Party (COP) and the project team to ensure that MEL deliverables as per donor requirements are metOversee the baseline, midline and final project evaluationLead the project research and learning agenda and ensure dissemination of generated research findingsOversee the MEL framework (including reporting) development and implementationEnsure data quality assessments and audits are doneConduct regular visits to project sites to provide technical assistance and ensure proper monitoring of project activitiesProvide direct coaching and reinforcing capacity of all staff under MEL section including documentationRepresent the project at national and county including technical working groups, communities of practice, conferences, workshops, and meetings.Ensure gender transformative approaches are incorporated in the project Key Qualifications: A Master’s degree in a relevant discipline, such as mathematics, statistics, informatics, biostatistics, information systems or a related field with knowledge/skills of Geographical Information Systems and information technologyAt least ten years of experience leading monitoring and evaluating activities for complex projects in developing countries.Demonstrated experience in providing technical support, setting up and managing M&E systems that track performance as per the objectives of this activity (e.g., performance against each result area) and in the application of statistical methods and database management.Demonstrated experience developing performance indicators, assessing and tracking data quality, data management, and/or training in performance management topics.Demonstrated experience training/facilitating workshops with several types of stakeholders on M&E topics; proven ability to distill complex information down to useable and understandable information for stakeholders.Experience developing and implementing performance monitoring plans.Strong knowledge of USAID rules and regulations around M&E and familiarity with USAID’s approach to project management.Exceptional technical skills in data management, MEL, survey design, mapping and/or assessment required.Exceptional skills in Excel, Word, and other Microsoft Office software and data analysis software, such as SPSS or Stata.Effective communication and interpersonal skills and ability.Must be professionally proficient and fluent in written and spoken EnglishNationals of Kenya and especially women are strongly encouraged to apply. Key Requirements Complete and current resume demonstrating the candidate’s qualifications and experienceMinimum of three current references (provide name and contact information of each reference).