Technical Manager, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (M&E)

About the role

The Technical Manager, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning provides technical leadership and oversight for all M&E activities across Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) and Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) programming within the AFGHA-IMA project in Ethiopia. The role covers data quality assurance, routine reporting, learning activities and performance monitoring, with support from a technical team and no direct reports.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the project milestone plan and routine data collection systems, and contribute to data standards and tools across subawards.
• Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly and annual progress reports, and submit monthly milestone data to the central MIS (DHIS2).
• Conduct routine data quality assurance, data cleaning and validity checks, and coach facility-level Performance Monitoring Teams and woreda/regional teams.
• Provide technical assistance and train subawards on the milestone plan and M&E framework.
• Run baseline assessments, RDQAs and system evaluations for PRCMM, MPDSR, HPRIG and other initiatives; establish performance metrics and QI Communities of Practice.
• Design and deploy digital data collection tools, manage tablet distribution and integrate community tools, facility registers and eLMIS/LMIS with national DHIS2.
• Lead learning events such as Pause & Reflect sessions, project start-up workshops, cluster reviews and quarterly EPAQ reviews, and document best practices and lessons learned.
• Support MPDSR audits, drug inventory analysis, social accountability tools (Community Score Card) and quarterly self-assessments of HPRIG and CHP-EPHCG workflows.

Required profile

• Master's degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Biostatistics, Demography, Public Health (MPH), Health Informatics, Epidemiology or a related quantitative field.
• At least 5-7 years of experience managing MERL systems for large-scale public health programs (MNCH, primary healthcare or health systems strengthening), preferably in NGOs.
• Demonstrated experience with Ethiopian health data systems and primary health care reform indicators.
• Proven experience conducting quantitative and qualitative assessments, data quality audits and leading pause-and-reflect sessions.

Required skills

• DHIS2, CHIS, eLMIS and MPDSR reporting platforms
• Monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks