(Senior) Director, Global Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

You may be a good fit if you have

• 10+ years of progressive experience in monitoring, learning, and evaluation including considerable hands-on experience of leading a rigorous quantitative function enabling data-driven decision-making in the global health/ development context.
  
• Experience should also include ability to work with technical and program implementation teams to negotiate data-led decisions on direct program implementation and technical assistance to governments, with 5+ years, ideally in a senior leadership role within a matrixed organization. In-field experience is highly desirable.
  
• PhD or a comparable mix of advanced training and high-end technical experience in a relevant field (economics, statistics, public health, or other quantitatively focused disciplines).
  
• Technical experience: Expertise in program evaluation design and analysis; including statistically rigorous impact evaluations, process evaluations, and mixed-methods approaches with real-world experience managing large-scale quantitative evaluations from design through dissemination.
  
• People Leadership: Demonstrates a track record of implementing effective team structures, developing Directors or senior leaders and strengthening leadership bench capacity. Successfully provided strategic direction to senior technical leads, set performance benchmarks, while empowering their domain ownership.
  
• Thought Leadership: Brings established networks across the MLE and leadership communities of peer and partner organizations, including philanthropies, evidence-driven implementation organizations in our regions, and government stakeholders. Has a track record of external thought leadership through publications, conference presentations, or similar platforms.
  
• Action Oriented: Demonstrates a clear orientation toward implementation over theory in being able to make tough choices from a range of possible options. Experience of leading from the front at evidence-driven organizations, across global health or development, is highly desirable.
  
• Transformation and Ambiguity: Embraces ambiguity to make transformational changes we need. They are an Engine 2 thinker; focused on solving today’s challenges, innovating for tomorrow’s needs, exploring new markets, and taking bold risks while communicating tradeoffs.
  
• Technical Communication: Can switch communication styles between external and internal MLE specialists, donors, board, and non-technical audiences to have effective conversions and drive decisions.