AKF Mozambique is seeking a National MERL Manager to oversee and lead the organization’s MERL activities. Working as a member of AKF Mozambique’s Senior Management Team, the National MERL Manager will take a portfolio-wide perspective and ensure that all of the organization’s MERL activities are planned and implemented to a high quality standard and in accordance with donor expectations. He/she will have a supervisory role over AKF Mozambique’s junior MERL staff – establishing work plans, evaluating staff performance and providing mentoring support to ensure that these staff can carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. He/she will ensure that AKF Mozambique’s MERL budgets and systems are fit for purpose and aligned with the organization’s overall strategic plan as well as being in accordance with the needs of individual donor-funded projects. He/she will provide ongoing guidance to project/programme teams on optimal ways to ensure the collection and reporting of reliable monitoring data. He/she will have a particularly important role to play in leading the technical design and implementation of research studies and project/programme evaluations, ensuring that these are designed ethically and according to appropriate technical standards in terms of methodology and data collection/analysis methods. Finally, he/she will be expected to lead the analysis and reporting of study and evaluation results, ensuring that these are communicated effectively to donors, as well as to AKF and partner staff as well as beneficiaries.
The successful candidate is expected to have:
