Water Mission is hiring a
To be considered for this position, submission of the application and all supplemental documents (CV/resume, cover letter, and other attachments) are required in English.
Who is Water Mission?
Water Mission is a rapidly growing Christian engineering nonprofit working to end the global water crisis by building safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions in developing nations and disaster areas. Guided by love, excellence, and integrity, we are driven to share clean, safe water and God’s love with all. To date, we have served nearly 7 million people in 57 countries. 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 our Christian Mission.
What is the opportunity?
The Senior Regional Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Specialist is a key position within Water Mission, responsible for monitoring, evaluation, and research activities in Water Mission’s Latin America and Caribbean region, and ensuring that information collected is reflected upon, used to improve ongoing initiatives, and incorporated into high-quality reports.
Reporting to the Global Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) Manager, the individual holding this position will be responsible for internal and external evaluations of program outcomes and impacts, including but not limited to the following: Designing monitoring, evaluation, and learning strategies for the region; developing, and managing relevant survey tools; evaluation and knowledge management; and supporting and building up capacity of field staff engaged in MEL efforts. This position works closely with all Project Managers, Program Directors, national staff, and partners involved in program implementation to ensure a coherent and comprehensive MEL program in Latin America and Caribbean regions is designed and implemented, lessons are learned, and experiences are shared across the various sectors and program teams. This is a full-time position that can be based remotely at any of Water Mission’s Latin America or Caribbean country programs. The position includes travel up to 40% of the time, mostly to Water Mission’s Latin America and Caribbean countries.
A successful Senior Regional MEL Specialist will:
Maintain a strong Christian witness and model servant leadership to colleagues, partners, the communities we serve, and the public.
Understand, support, and nurture the Vision, Mission, and Values of Water Mission.
Develop MEL materials, including theory of change, results framework, pause, learning plans for Water Mission’s programs, grant proposals and special projects.
Assist in the development of evaluation and research study design for Water Mission internal initiatives, donor groups, and granting institutions, including determining appropriate methods, developing data analysis plans, and designing data collection tools and online surveys.
Implement evaluation and research studies in the field, including procuring qualified in-country research assistants, orienting Water Mission staff to study needs, coordinating research activities on the ground, and establishing data quality assurance procedures/processes across the ministry.
Lead analysis of resulting monitoring, evaluation and research data, including data mining, and developing donor reports and data visualization dashboards.
Present data in various forums to both Water Mission staff and external stakeholders. Regularly share program outcomes and results with the programs team. Facilitate routine learning and action planning meetings with program stakeholders across the ministry.
Build internal monitoring and evaluation capacity in Water Mission’s Latin America and Caribbean Country Programs and Affiliate Programs, and recommend corrective programmatic action where required.
Other duties as assigned.
What is required?