Save the Children is seeking an experienced Monitoring, Evaluation, Adapting and Learning (MEAL) Lead to provide strong leadership and technical expertise to generate and analyze quality evidence data through assessments, monitoring, evaluations, adapting, learning and capacity building, for the five-year USAID/BHA-funded Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA), Albarka program in Mali. The program seeks to sustainably improve the food security and resilience of communities in conflict-affected areas through strengthening local systems and community participation in three regions of Mopti, Tombouctou and Gao, in the center and north of Mali. The program is implemented by a consortium of four (4) deeply-rooted local and two (2) international partners, working with seven local platforms to achieve improved food security and resilience of conflict-affected communities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The Albarka program is an integrated, multiyear, multi-sectoral food and nutrition security intervention in the center and north of Mali. The MEAL Lead is overall responsible of providing technical expertise, strong leadership and oversight of MEAL activities of the entire Albarka program, staff management and capacity building to achieve the desired impact, through quality evidence and data from monitoring, assessments, evaluations, adapting and learning. The M&E Lead supervises the program’s monitoring and evaluation teams, including consortium members/ teams, and coordinate with program Collaboration, Adapting and Learning (CLA) and management processes to ensure effective feedback loops that contribute to the achievement of desired outcomes for the program. The MEAL will collaborate and interact with Save the Children country office, regional and HQ MEAL teams, as well as BHA MEAL team, in developing and establishing MEAL systems for a truly evidence-based program implementation and learning, for Albarka.
What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
Required Qualifications
A Master’s degree in a quantitative field (economics, statistics, public health, applied sociology, Anthropology, etc.) with significant training in quantitative methods plus eight years of relevant work experience. Or, a PhD in a quantitative field plus six years of relevant work experience.
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