Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Manager, Tanzania

This position is located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. We are accepting applications through January 22, 2024

Who is Water Mission?

Water Mission is a Christian engineering nonprofit that builds sustainable, safe water solutions for people in developing countries, refugee camps, and disaster areas. Since 2001, Water Mission has served more than 8 million people in 61 countries, sharing safe water and the message of God’s love. Working at Water Mission is as much a calling as it is a career, and we are searching for people with the courage, passion, and drive to help us change the world. Read more about our Statement of Faith and Christian Mission.

What is the opportunity?

Reporting directly to Water Mission’s Country Director in Tanzania with dotted line reports to the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team in Charleston, SC, USA., the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Manager will be responsible for designing, managing, and implementing Water Mission’s MEL program in Tanzania. They will manage activities to ensure that Water Mission Tanzania achieves intended program results through strong oversight and management of performance and impact measurement and learning activities. This is a full-time position based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and includes regular travel to Water Mission's programs in Kasulu and Dodoma.

The position will supervise a team of Monitoring and Evaluation Officers, located in any of the organization’s areas of operations.

The MEL Manager will be responsible for:

General Responsibilities:

• Maintain a strong Christian witness and model servant leadership to colleagues, partners, the communities we serve, and the public.
• Engage and participate in prayer before and after team meetings.
• Lead and participate in biblically based staff devotions.

Program Monitoring and Evaluation System Design:

Assist Water Mission in establishing performance measures, collecting performance information, planning, and managing evaluation programs assigned.

• Manage the development of performance monitoring and impact management systems for Water Mission’s projects in Tanzania, including the development and validation of program impact strategy, logical frameworks, measurement indicators, and data collection tools.
• Provide input into the design, implementation, and dissemination of evaluations, special studies, and assessments.
• Manage the creation and review of global and country-level monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning budgets to provide adequate financial resources for evaluations, special studies, and assessments.

Data Collection, Compliance, and Quality Assurance:

Manage implementation of data flow activities for Water Mission’s projects in Tanzania.

• Supervise and facilitate all data collection activities. Work closely with Water Mission’s Community Development Officers, Project Managers, and Engineering team to ensure timely and continuous collection of data using Water Mission’s data collection tools.
• Manage development and implementation of data flow improvements for the Water Mission program in Tanzania that will ensure efficient data collection and reporting and support scalability.
• Ensure data quality through data verification procedures, including routine data quality audits, and work with various teams to resolve discrepancies and improve processes.
• Develop and implement training on data collection, storage, quality assurance, and retrieval processes, as needed.

Data Analysis & Visualization:

Support activities to transform quantitative and qualitative data sets into compelling reports and visuals for different types of audiences.

• Develop and implement plans, methods, and tools for analyzing data.
• Perform qualitative and quantitative data analysis as needed.
• Manage analytical reports to provide direct and real-time insights to inform the project design and implementation in Tanzania.
• Develop standard protocols, templates, infographics, and procedures to ensure data analysis and visualization needs are met.

Data Reporting and Presentation:

Implement strategies to improve Water Mission and the broader WASH sector's ability to use data to drive future program design, implementation, and  decision-making.

• Regularly develop performance reports and share program outcomes and learnings with Water Mission’s International Programs team and all key stakeholders in Tanzania (UNICEF, etc.) including reports, training, briefs, commentary, and visuals.
• Facilitate reflection, learning, and adapting meetings regularly in the country.
• Work closely with the communications team to help promote Water Mission’s content including reports, briefs, commentary, and visual data.
• Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with partners and represent Water Mission’s M&E, data analysis, and visualization activities in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations.
• Other duties as assigned.

What is required?

Relationship and Alignment:

• Personal and growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
• Alignment with Water Mission’s Statement of Faith and core values of Love, Excellence, and Integrity.

Education Qualification and Experience:

• Master's degree in demography, statistics, mathematics, public health, environmental health, or related field; or equivalent experience. Significant M&E experience will be accepted instead of a Master's degree.
• At least 3-5 years of experience designing, managing, and implementing program monitoring and evaluation activities including:
• Theory of change and M&E framework.
• Community needs, baseline, end line end line, and data quality assessments.
• Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research and evaluation studies.
• Surveys, focus group discussions, and observational data collection tools.
• Learning and adapting processes and mechanisms.
• Committed to personal continuous skills development.

Skills & Abilities:

• Domain expertise in data science, statistical analysis, and data visualization.
• Working knowledge of one or more data analysis and visualization libraries and packages used today, including PowerBi, R, Tableau, SQL Python, JavaScript, SPSS, Stata, MS Access, and MS Excel.
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to summarize disparate information manner clearly and concisely.
• Demonstrated ability to build consensus and work collaboratively and effectively with other leaders, volunteers, and employees at all levels.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English is required.
• Ability and willingness to travel in-country for up to 20 weeks per year. Most in-country trips require this person to ride long car rides on rough terrain and stand for extended periods of time in hot weather.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate ideas and feedback constructively.
• Good written and verbal cross-cultural communication skills.

General Requirements:

• Home internet bandwidth strong enough to support video conferencing and other job-related responsibilities.
• Legal authorization to work in the Tanzania without sponsorship.