Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning at Malala Fund

Job Name: Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning at Malala Fund
Name of Company: Malala Fund
Location: Washington, D.C., New York, California, and Seattle, WA
Salary Range: USD 137,800 – USD 146,300
Job Type: Full-time, Hybrid, Remote
Career Level: Senior Level Manager (Director, Dept Head, VP, General Manager, C-level)
Education Level: Not Specified
Travel Required: Yes
Hours per Week: 40
Benefits: Medical insurance cover for staff and dependents, parental leave of 180 days, retirement benefits, life and disability insurance, global week of rest, end of year holiday break, mobile allowances, and leave.

Position Description

Malala Fund is seeking a Director to lead Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) systems, ensuring Malala Fund maintains a data-driven approach to measuring, reflecting on, and learning from its programs that deliver transformational impact. The Director will be responsible for developing MEL systems that deliver strategic opportunities to support organizational impact, growth, and credibility. Additionally, the Director will work with the MEL team to oversee the evaluation of the current strategic plan and the application of relevant evidence to plan Malala Fund’s next phase of work.

Responsibilities

– Leads the development of Malala Fund MEL systems to deliver a strategic vision for MEL’s role in overall organizational impact.
– Oversees and supervises MEL development, planning, communications, product design, and improvement.
– Designs efficient and sound data collection strategies that deliver a defined set of data packaged in accessible and persuasive formats.
– Applies MEL evidence, analysis, and learning practices in support of quick and adaptive management at national, workstream, and organizational levels.
– Creates compelling MEL products to support strategic planning.
– Advises on and strengthens strategy development processes at organizational, country, and/or workstream levels.
– Provides quality assurance for MEL systems and products.
– Maintains behavior that upholds the highest standards for safeguarding, professionally and personally.
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Qualifications

– At least seven years of experience in international development-focused on the global south.
– Experience in MEL, education, social science, human rights, international development, gender, or a related field.
– Excellent communication skills, including oral and visual presentation skills.
– Demonstrated success in overseeing a team of systems, data, and reporting professionals, with a deep understanding of applied research and evaluation.
– Able to project manage multi-stakeholder MEL works in order to deliver viable beta MEL products in a timely fashion.
– Knowledge of data collection and visualization software and technologies.
– Creative problem solver with a user-centered design approach.
– Strong commitment to Malala Fund’s mission, purpose, and values.
– Strong commitment to gender equality, anti-racism, anti-discrimination, decolonization, and social justice.
– Excellent team player with the ability to work independently and in collaboration with colleagues at all levels across departments and external stakeholders.

Malala Fund is an inclusive organization that actively seeks applicants from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and identities to provide a range of perspectives, ideas, views, and insights into the strategy, policies, culture, and ambitions of Malala Fund. Malala Fund welcomes and inducts new team members into the organization and facilitates collaboration across and within teams.

The organization is committed to ensuring the safety of everyone who comes in direct or indirect contact with its work and has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse and exploitation. Malala Fund reserves the right to conduct background checks on prospective and current employees.