Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer

ABOUT VILLAGEREACH

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone, so that each person has the health care needed to thrive. We develop solutions that improve equity and access to primary health care . This includes making sure products are available when and where they are needed and primary health care services are delivered to the most under-reached. Radical collaboration with governments, the private sector and other partners strengthen our ability to scale and sustain these solutions. Our work increases access to quality health care for more than 46 million people in sub-Saharan Africa. VillageReach in incorporated in Washington State and has offices in Seattle (USA), Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Cote d’ Ivoire, Kena and Mozambique.

SUMMARY

In consultation with the Manager of Monitoring and Evaluation (in DRC), The Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer will provide technical leadership for the monitoring, evaluation, learning and adaptive management on a new large grant focused on improving routine immunization coverage in Lomami Province. The position will lead the operationalization of the program's MEL framework and measurement of the program’s Theory of Change, ensuring that VillageReach can reliably determine whether zero-dose and under-immunized children are being identified, whether underserved communities are incorporated into microplans, whether planned vaccination sessions actually occur, whether children are reached, and ultimately whether vaccination coverage improves. The Senior MEL Officer will integrate multiple data streams—including DHIS2/Gestion PEV, digital session reporting, GTS/geospatial data, supply-chain monitoring, supervision findings, community data and qualitative evidence—to generate actionable information monthly for programme management, government and health facility decision-making. The position will work closely with the Project Senior Manager, global Research, Evidence and Learning Director and with a geospatial mapping partner while maintaining VillageReach’s overall responsibility for programme monitoring, learning and donor reporting. In addition to leading the project’s M&E. This program will be supported by an external evaluation team who will conduct a baseline and endline coverage survey, this position along with the Global Director of Research, Evidence and Learning will be the points of contact for the external evaluators. Lastly, this project will also be supporting a small pilot of an intervention of Community Health Workers as Vaccinators, the Senior MEL Officer will support the creation and execution of the research, data collection and analysis plan for that pilot.

This position reports to the Manager of Monitoring and Evaluation (in DRC), with a dotted reporting line to a Director of Research, Evidence and Learning (global level).

Role Description:

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

1. MEL System Leadership and Implementation

2. Vaccination Coverage, Zero-Dose and Dropout Monitoring

3. Outreach, Mobile and Fixed-Session Performance Monitoring

4. Geospatial and GTS Data Integration

5. Data Quality and Verification

6. Learning and Adaptive Management

7. CHW/RECO Vaccinator Pilot MEL

8. Donor Reporting and Milestones

9. Capacity Strengthening and Government Data Use

Competencies:

VillageReach has ten (10) Organizational Competencies that describe how we work together and get things done that are grouped into three strategic areas of Achieving Great Results, Setting Direction and, Bringing Others With you. For a full description, please download our Organizational Competency document.

Achieving Great Results :

1. Risk Taking and Innovation

· Key Behaviors : Comfort with ambiguity, curiosity, adaptability, unconstrained and undeterred creativity, resourcefulness.

2. Business Judgement

· Key Behaviors: Getting to root causes, understanding environment, navigating complexity and ambiguity, entrepreneurial energy.

3. Building Strong Teams

· Key Behaviors: Trust in Subject Matter Experts (SME’s); radical candor to resolve conflict, hold each other accountable as colleagues, focused on results, commitment to mission.

Setting Direction:

4. Compelling Communication

· Key Behaviors: Clear and evidence-based communication, audience adaptability, curious listener.

5. Resilient Self Leadership

· Key Behaviors: Self-aware, plan how one shows up, emotionally intelligent, use one’s own agency and takes accountability.

6. Stewardship and Personal Alignment

· Key Behaviors: Take ownership, display ethical conduct, effective at resource management, alignment of personal objectives with organizational goals and mission, focus on continuous improvement and sustainability.

Bringing Others with You:

7. Influencing Leadership

· Key Behaviors: Cultivate trust, influences to make change, navigate the matrix structure.

8. Radical Partnership

· Key Behaviors: Share information and credit, address conflict, increase impact through collaboration, political and contextual awareness.

9. Cultivates a Growth Mindset

· Key Behaviors: Seek out diverse input, demonstrate flexibility in thinking and curiosity, embrace challenges, demonstrate persistence, seek learning opportunities.

10. Cultural Intelligence and Inclusion

· Key Behaviors: Continuous learning and ally-ship across cultural lines, challenge prejudice and bias, modeled in one’s own behavior.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education & Experience: