Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager

***Qualifications / Requirements**:

- Master’s Degree preferred in relevant field, or equivalent combination of education and work experience in a relevant competency area, including statistics, international development, economics or other
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience working on the monitoring and evaluation preferably for donor funded projects
- Experience developing monitoring and evaluation systems
- Demonstrated experience developing compelling dashboards and analytical reports to communicate project results and guide adaptive project management
- Ability to write concise and clear reports
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate, willingness to innovate and ability to think systematically
- Demonstrated ability to interact and communicate with wide range of stakeholders both verbally and in writing
- Proven experience in managing multiple and competing tasks while maintaining quality of deliverables within deadlines
- Advanced oral and written communication skills in English and Xhosa

**Key Performance Areas**:

- Provide strategic leadership and operational management of the various components of the project and ensure the completion of all activities
- Develop and implement a strategy outlining systems and tools for data collection, targeting and tracking project indicators, knowledge management, impact assessments, learning activities and reporting in compliance with organizational and donor requirements
- Work closely with the US-based Data and Learning Director and other technical units throughout the organization to manage a GIS referencing, cloud-based Management Information System (MIS) and ensure data requirements are integrated into project management processes
- Plan and conduct routine assessments that track, analyze, and synthesize project data useful for learning and adaptive management
- Oversee regular review of monitoring data, organize and lead periodic learning sessions and annual strategic project reviews to enable project technical staff to identify successes and make decisions about adapting activities and approaches to achieve results
- Collaborate closely with project technical staff to analyze findings, determine any needed adjustments, and identify and disseminate key learning messages/finding to internal and external audiences
- Engage with project technical staff on project impact data collection and research opportunities
- Utilize critical inputs, feedback, and assessments from external evaluation partners to inform changes in program approaches and scale-up when necessary
- Ensure compliance with all organizational and donor reporting requirements, and, if/where applicable, South African government reporting requirements
- Conduct field visits to observe project activities and service provision to project participants and stakeholders and report back findings and recommendations to the project technical staff
- Organize surveys, interviews and group discussions on project activities and results
- Monitor the progress of the project based on the agreed milestones
- Maintain and update the Performance Monitoring Plan in conjunction with the project milestones
- Collect and organize all necessary verification documents including activity/progress reports, photographs and minutes of important meetings and visits
- Develop and maintain the project’s MIS operational manual and training/guidance documentation
- Review and validate the consistency and accuracy of MIS data; discuss with project technical staff the findings and propose corrections, adjustments and/or improvements
- Develop various MIS forms for data collection and analysis as required
- Generate statistical reports, graphs, maps, infographics, and follow up on trends of project indicators or other related data points on a monthly basis

**Qualifications**:
Prefered Skills