Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager

The Programme MEL Manager provides strategic leadership for monitoring, evaluation, and learning across the Tanzania country programme, with a focus on creating dignified employment for young people, particularly young women, through the professionalization of community-based health work.

The role exists to ensure that evidence informs decisions, learning drives adaptation, and results are credible to donors, governments, and partners. Reporting to the Programme Director, the MEL Manager translates programme strategy into clear results frameworks, robust data systems, and meaningful learning processes that support delivery, scale, and systems change for the country programme.

Duties & Key Responsibilities:

1. Project Implementation & Coordination

• Support the execution of project activities in line with work plans, budgets, and technical guidance. Coordinate field-level activities, including trainings, supervision visits, workshops, and stakeholder engagements.
• Ensure smooth communication between national, regional, district teams, and implementing partners. Contribute to the preparation and updating of work plans, procurement plans, and schedules.

1. Technical Support

• Assist in the rollout of interventions related to pre-eclampsia and maternal anaemia prevention, screening, and management.
• Support health facilities and CHWs in the adoption of project tools, innovations, and best practices.
• Participate in technical meetings, co-creation sessions, and review workshops.
• Support capacity-building initiatives for health providers and community structures.

1. Government & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with MoH, PORALG, RHMTs, CHMTs, and health facility teams to facilitate implementation.
• Support coordination with consortium partners (Amref, CHAI) and other relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure government ownership and participation in project activities at all levels.

1. Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning

• Support data collection, verification, and documentation of project indicators in collaboration with the MERL team.
• Contribute to the development of progress reports, success stories, and field updates.
• Participate in monitoring visits, reviews, and learning sessions.
• Support documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and best practices.

1. Financial & Administrative Support

• Assist with activity budgeting, liquidations, and compliance with financial and procurement procedures.
• Provide logistical and administrative support for meetings, training, and field missions.
• Track activity expenditures to ensure alignment with budget and donor requirements.

1. Representation & Documentation

• Represent the project in field-level coordination meetings and technical platforms as delegated.
• Contribute to documentation of evidence, case studies, and activity reports.
• Uphold Amref visibility, professionalism, and engagement in all partner and community interactions

Qualifications

1. Nine (9) years and above of relevant experience, with at least three (5) years of senior leadership experience with proven experience in MEL leadership within the development sector.
2. Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, International Development or Development Studies, Public Health, Social Sciences, or a related field. A Master’s Degree is an added advantage
3. Professional Diplomas in the MEL field, including but not limited to MEL DPro (Monitoring, Evaluation and Accountability for Development Professionals); PMP® or PRINCE® is an added advantage.
4. Demonstrable research experience (e.g., operational research, implementation research, and peer-reviewed research), as well as experience in data management (qualitative and quantitative analysis) and report writing
5. Experience designing MEL systems, dashboards, and reporting tools;
6. Proven experience engaging senior government, donor, and private-sector stakeholders;
7. Experience in health systems, workforce development, or youth employment, exposure to gender-responsive or inclusive employment models; and
8. Demonstrable project management skills, including budgeting, planning, reporting, and attention to operational detail.

Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies:

• Strategic Planning: Obtains and identifies key issues and relationships relevant to achieving long-range goals; commits to a course of action to accomplish a goal after developing alternatives based on logical assumptions, facts, available resources, constraints, and Amref values.
• Driving innovation: Open to new ideas and experiences; seeks out learning opportunities; handles situations and problems with innovation and creativity; thinks broadly and strategically; supports and drives organizational change.
• Driving for results: Sets high goals for personal and team accomplishment; uses measurement methods to monitor progress toward programme goals; tenaciously works to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous achievement.
• Creating an inclusive environment: Makes decisions and initiates action to ensure that programme policies leverage the capabilities and insights of individuals with diverse backgrounds, cultures, styles, abilities, and motivation.
• Delegation and empowerment: Identify and leverages opportunities to accelerate results and build capability by assigning tasks to individuals or one's own team with clear boundaries, expectations, support, and follow-up, with the intent of involving others in agreement, for successful outcomes.
• Innovative leadership: Creating a culture that inspires people to generate novel solutions with measurable impact for existing and potential stakeholders (internal and external); encouraging experimentation with new ways to solve work problems and seize opportunities that result in unique and differential solutions.
• Proactive Learner: Identifying own strengths and shortcomings that impact organizational and programme results; actively pursuing development experiences that will enhance own impact on long-term organizational outcomes.
• Proficiency in English and Kiswahili, both written and spoken.

Additional Information

If you meet the above qualifications and wish to apply, please submit a single document that includes both your application letter and CV. Be sure to state your current position, provide a daytime telephone number, and include the names and contact details of three referees. The interviews will be conducted at the Amref offices in Dar es Salaam. All applications must be received by 16:30 hours on April 02, 23, 2026,

Amref Health Africa does not require applicants to pay any money at whatever stage of the recruitment and selection process and has not retained any agent in connection with recruitment. Although Amref may use different job boards from time to time to further spread its reach for applicants, all open vacancies are published on our website under the Vacancies page and on our official social media pages. Kindly also note that official emails from Amref Health Africa will arrive from an @amref.org address.

Amref Health Africa is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Amref Health Africa is is dedicated to diversity and is an equal-opportunity employer with a non-smoking environment policy.