SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR – MONITORING EVALUATION, ANALYSIS AND LEARNING

As a member of the Health Equity and Rights Team, the Senior Technical Advisor for MEAL will lead the team’s efforts to design, implement, and measure impact and leverage from learning-focused projects and programs; manage and develop strategic partnerships with academic and learning institutions; work with colleagues to ensure high quality impact data is produced on annual basis for health programming; identify and strengthen evaluation, learning, impact measurement and health innovations across the federation; lead the dissemination of our work amongst a wide variety of stakeholders in particular through academic and peer-reviewed forums.

The position requires strong self-direction, initiative and independent decision making and problem solving in complex contexts; the ability to foster and manage strategic relationships internal and external to the organization; and the ability to work collaboratively and independently across cultural contexts and teams. Successful candidates will have extensive experience designing, managing, and being accountable for the results of public health projects and programs; expertise in designing and leading applied research and evaluation that responds to donor and project needs; developing creative ideas about how to build staff capacity and comfort with evaluation and research concepts and socialize the use of new tools, frameworks and approaches; excellent written and oral communication skills; and the ability to make and justify strategic decisions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Lead the design and implementation of learning-focused HER (Health Equity and Rights) programs and their evaluations. This includes primary accountability for and decision-making responsibility around the design of innovative programming, the development and execution of multi-country and multi-component workplans, and management of budgets, contracts, and internal and external partnerships.

· Cultivate and manage strategic relationships and partnerships to advance RM and learning by contributing to secure new funding opportunities and building new strategic learning-focused partnerships through leadership in key proposal development and strategic positioning, processes, including the FLHW strategy.

· Build capacity for health-focused monitoring, evaluation, and learning across CARE’s health portfolio, by leading the efforts to build new and enhance existing monitoring, evaluation and learning capacities related to health programming across CARE’s portfolio as part of the Right to Health Impact Area Strategy leadership mandate.

· Represent CARE’s HER learning in external spaces, more broadly at strategic, learning and external technical advisory committees and consultations, communities of practice, and organizational coalitions. As well leading the development of high-quality, scientifically-rigorous summaries of learning and evaluations across CARE’s health portfolio including peer-reviewed publications to demonstrate and disseminate evidence of CARE’s best practices in the global health space.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Masters level in public health, public policy, social, behavioral or global health sciences or relevant field with applied evaluation and learning experience.
• 7+ years in relevant position/Experience implementing public health projects in development contexts, Designing and executing applied evaluations, application of quantitative and qualitative research methods, behavior and social science theories and concepts, and program evaluation in complex settings.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and be accountable for complex, independent, strategic decision making with partners and donors