Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer

The Tanzania MEL Officer is responsible for implementing and strengthening monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems for the Country Integrated and Coordinated Community Health Workers (ICCHW) programme. This role is responsible for accurate data collection, credible reporting, and meaningful learning. The role ensures that evidence from the ICCCHW programme informs programme delivery, supports adaptation, and meets donor and organisational accountability standards.

Reporting to the MEL Manager, the MEL Officer translates approved results frameworks into operational data systems, tools, and processes that ensure quality, integrity, and usability of evidence. This role is also responsible for supporting the MEL Manager to track the implementation of the ICCHW programme MEL plan.

This role requires strong technical competence in data systems, attention to detail, ethical judgement, and the ability to operate effectively in dynamic programme environments.

Duties & Key Responsibilities:

1. Country Programme MEL Plan implementation
   • Apply programme-approved results frameworks and theories of change within the country context.
   • Ensure consistent use of agreed indicators, definitions, and data collection tools.
   • Support adaptation of tools to local context while safeguarding comparability and methodological integrity.
2. Data Collection Systems and Tools

• Apply ethical standards in data collection, informed consent, confidentiality, and data protection.
• Coordinate routine data collection processes across the ICCHW and implementing partners.
• Ensure appropriate quantitative and qualitative tools are applied correctly.
• Support digital and manual data systems management at country level.
• Maintain updated indicator tracking sheets and reporting dashboards.
• Ensure compliance with country data protection laws and donor requirements.

1. Data Quality Assurance and Management
   • Implement routine Data Quality Assurance (DQA) processes including verification, validation, and spot checks.
   • Ensure completeness, timeliness, accuracy, and reliability of country-level data.
   • Maintain structured data storage, documentation, and version control in line with organisational standards.
   • Identify and escalate data quality risks proactively, and ensure country level MEL systems and data are audit- and evaluation-ready throughout the programme lifecycle;
   • Protect the credibility of the country programme results through sound methodology and ethical data practices.
2. MEL Systems and Capability Building:
   • Strengthen country-level MEL capacity within programme teams and implementing partners to ensure consistent application of programme standards.
   • Work closely with the field teams to ensure all CHW training data collection and collation adheres to the MEL framework and database(s).
   • Ensure learning flowsacross the country programme, not only vertically through management lines.
   • Provide practical guidance to implementing partners on data requirements and reporting standards.
3. Reporting and Accountability
   • Prepare timely, accurate MEL inputs for donor reports and internal programme reviews.
   • Ensure alignment between MEL data, programme narrative, and financial reporting inputs.
   • Support audit and review processes from a results and evidence perspective.
   • Maintain country reporting calendars and deadlines.
4. Learning & Adaptive Management
   • Work collaboratively with Programme, Finance, Grants, and Communications functions to ensure alignment between delivery, evidence, and narrative and provide MEL insight as a programme resource, not as a managerial control mechanism.
   • Facilitate structured reflection sessions at the country level to review performance and identify improvements.
   • Support programme teams in interpreting data to inform delivery adjustments.
   • Document lessons learned, challenges, and good practices to support institutional memory.
5. Stakeholder Engagement & Influence:
   • Engage donors, government counterparts, and partners to align learning priorities and manage expectations, and strengthen the use of evidence for decision making.
   • Facilitate cross-partner learning communities to promote knowledge exchange and shared problem-solving.
   • Promote co-creation of learning with implementing partners and local communities, ensuring that learning processes are inclusive and contextually grounded.

Qualifications

1. Six (6) years of relevant experience, with at least one (1) year of MEL supervisory experience within the development sector.
2. Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, International Development or Development Studies, Public Health, Social Sciences, or a related field.
3. Professional Diplomas in the MEL field, including but not limited to MEL DPro (Monitoring, Evaluation and Accountability for Development Professionals); PMP® or PRINCE® are 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 digital MEL systems, dashboards, and reporting tools;
6. Proven experience engaging community, government, donor, partner, 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.
9. Understanding of gender-responsive or youth-focused programming is desirable.

Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies:

1. 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.
2. 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. Applies practical improvements to data collection and reporting processes; adapts tools responsibly within the local context.
3. 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. Maintains high standards of data accuracy, reporting timeliness, and accountability.
4. 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. Ensures data systems reflect gender sensitivity and protect participant confidentiality. Works effectively across country programme functions and with implementing partners to ensure integrated reporting and learning.
5. Facilitating Change: encourages self and others to implement better approaches to address problems and opportunities related to data systems and reporting quality. Leads the implementation and acceptance of change within the programme and workplace.Treats rapidly changing environments and situations as opportunities for learning and growth.
6. 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. Continuously strengthens technical MEL capability and applies learning to improve data systems and reporting quality.

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.