M&E Manager
Role Summary
Join Adeso as an M&E Manager to enhance data and measurement capacity, supporting local organizations in reshaping humanitarian practices.
About the Organisation
NEAR (Network for Empowered Aid Response) is a movement of local organisations with a bold ambition – to reshape the top-down humanitarian and development system to one that is locally driven and owned, and is built around equitable, dignified and accountable partnerships. NEAR is a membership-based organisation with members coming from four regions: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
NEAR is currently hosted by Adeso, an expanding and vibrant African based international development and humanitarian organisation. Adeso and NEAR both aspire to prevent and overcome situations that adversely affect community well-being by: Influencing policy change and enacting systemic change through innovative solutions led by local and national actors.
Minimum Requirements
- Strong quantitative data analysis skills, including data cleaning, statistical summarisation, and cross-tabulation across large datasets, combined with solid MEL foundations in indicator design and results framework development
- Strong survey methodology experience – design, administration, analysis, and synthesis across multiple instrument types, with particular proficiency in web-based member or stakeholder survey platforms such as SurveyMonkey, or equivalent
- Experience maintaining indicator frameworks across multiple concurrent donor-funded programmes, including conducting data quality audits and tracking progress against targets over time
- Ability to produce clear data visualisations and dashboards for non-technical leadership and donor audiences
- Proficiency in Asana or a comparable project management platform
- Strong data organisation, documentation, and data management habits, including experience developing and maintaining data management protocols and MEL system documentation
- Demonstrated ability to translate data and analysis into formats that program staff and leadership can use
- Comfortable coordinating across multiple teams and working as a behind-the-scenes support function
- Detail-oriented and reliable – program teams and Operations will depend on this role for data accuracy
- Collaborative by default, with experience working in close coordination with multiple teams simultaneously
- Demonstrated commitment to localization, locally led knowledge, and Global South-led systems change, in line with NEAR’s mission and values
- Experience with member or stakeholder survey programs in network or civil society contexts
- Familiarity with locally led funds, pooled funds, or financing mechanism measurement
- Experience working in or with Global South organisations or networks
- Comfort with the limits of conventional log-frame approaches in systems change and movement-building contexts
- Based in the Global South or with substantial professional experience in Global South contexts
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in monitoring and evaluation, international development, social sciences, or a related field
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible for global candidates with a focus on data management and quantitative analysis.
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