Summary

Save the Children is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Director for the anticipated five-year USAID-funded Integrated Nutrition Activity (INA) program in Nepal. The program will focus on strengthening the government of Nepal’s (GON) commitment and capacity to improve nutrition outcomes and to ensuring a healthy and productive workforce.

The MEAL Director will develop, implement, and continuously improve M&E systems for all project activities. The Director will incorporate best practices to ensure information collected is accurate, timely, and disseminated appropriately in high quality reports. The MEAL team will use these findings to improve the program and achieve activity objectives. In addition, they will also be actively involved in promoting learning through documentation of lessons learned and developing approaches for community analysis and using data for decision making. The position will be located in Kathmandu.

This position is contingent upon donor approval and funding.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

• Provide leadership, training, and mentoring to develop and implement MEAL activities (including designing tools, conducting data collection and analysis, and sharing and using data) to assess and improve program impact.
• Develop MEAL plan and systems for capturing and documenting data and relevant information on project activities, beneficiaries, outputs, outcomes, and impact.
• Design methodology and coordinate research activities for project operations and assessments.
• Effectively rollout MEAL collection and reporting systems to all staff and partners through training, site visits, manuals, and other technical support as needed.
• Capture appropriate cost information to track financial indicators, including benchmarking information to analyze program effectiveness and cost-effective inputs.
• Ensure programming alignment to targets and indicators contained in project proposal and use the information from the M&E systems and tools to improve program effectiveness.
• Support all project reviews and evaluation activities, including coordinating mid-term and final evaluations, and supporting donor and external reviews.
• Provide on-going support to maintain M&E systems; identify skill gaps and build capacity among project team members, partners, and stakeholders.
• Prepare high quality, accurate and timely reports for Save the Children, project partners, and donors as required.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, or related field is required.
• Advanced training in quantitative methodologies, including database management; experience in qualitative research techniques a plus.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation related to nutrition, SBCC, WASH and/or public health programming.
• Strong analytical skills and an understanding of monitoring, evaluation and assessment tools to promote evidence-based learning.
• Ability to analyze complex data and summarize the inputs for a range of audiences.
• Demonstrated skills required to gain support from staff across teams and to build the capacity of others.
• Sound strategic thinking and planning skills, including ability to think creatively, innovate, and set manageable work plans and priorities and evaluate progress.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Familiarity with the political, social, and cultural context of Nepal.

Local candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.