Job Summary

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 strategy in Tanzania. The MEL Manager 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 full-time position is based in Dodoma, Tanzania, and includes regular travel to Water Mission’s programs in Dar-es-Salaam and Kasulu.

Our Culture: As a key leader in Water Mission, the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager is responsible for leading self and staff in developing a biblical worldview culture that leads to God-honoring excellence in all work and reinforces the following: providing accurate data, empowering staff to have the skills and mindset needed to acknowledge mistakes or problems as opportunities, and to find appropriate solutions, and empowering staff to consistently work for excellence in solutions that are consistent with Water Mission’s mission, vision, values, and standards.

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

1.0 Duties and Responsibilities

1.1 Mission Driven

• Maintain a strong Christian witness and model servant leadership to colleagues, partners, the communities we serve, and the public.
• Engage and support subordinates to grow in their Christian witness and servant leadership
• Participate in biblically based staff devotions as well as other activities of worship.

1. 1. Program Monitoring and Evaluation System Design:

• Lead Water Mission Tanzania team in regularly reviewing performance measures, collecting performance information, planning, and managing evaluation programs.
• Manage the development of performance monitoring and impact management systems for Water Mission’s projects in Tanzania, including developing and validating program impact strategy, logical frameworks, measurement indicators, and data collection tools.
• Provide input into designing, implementing, and disseminating evaluations, special studies, and assessments.
• Support review of global and country-level monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning budgets to ensure adequate financial resources for evaluations, special studies, and assessments.

1. 1. Data Collection, Compliance, and Quality Assurance:

• Manage implementation of data flow activities for Water Mission’s projects in Tanzania to ensure accurate, timely and efficient data collection, processing, and dissemination.
• Work closely with Water Mission’s Community Development Officers, Project Managers, and Engineering team to ensure timely and continuous data collection using Water Mission’s data collection tools.
• 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.

1.4 Data Analysis & Visualization:

• Develop and implement plans, methods, and tools for analyzing data.
• Support activities to transform quantitative and qualitative data sets into compelling reports and visuals for different audiences.
• Develop standard protocols, templates, infographics, and procedures to meet data analysis and visualization needs.
• Manage analytical reports to provide direct and real-time insights to inform Tanzania's project design and implementation.

1. 1. 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 key stakeholders in Tanzania, including reports, training, briefs, commentary, and visuals.
• Regularly facilitate reflection and learning meetings for Water Mission Tanzania.
• Work closely with the communications team to help promote Water Mission’s content, which includes 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.

1.6 Other duties as assigned.

2.0 2.0 Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

1. 1. 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.

1. 1. 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, and data quality assessments.
  • Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research and evaluation studies.
  • Learning and adapting processes and mechanisms.
  • Continuous skills development.

1. 1. 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 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 constructively articulate ideas and feedback.
• Good written and verbal cross-cultural communication skills.
• Legal authorization to work in Tanzania without sponsorship.