• Provide strategic guidance and technical support for successful MEL in keeping with the principles of collaboration, learning, and adaptation (CLA).
• Collaborate with the Communications team to maintain information sharing and unified messaging.
• Collaborate with COP, DCOP, and objective leads to use adaptive management to identify necessary changes to implementation approaches across the project.
• Supervise a team of MEL focused staff and actively collaborate with subcontractors and USAID in the development, implementation, and revision of the MEL Plan.
• Ensure the accurate and compelling reporting of results.
• Oversee the analysis and visualization of collected data to assess how the program is performing against its indicators.
• Maintain compliance with USAID’s policies and procedures, ensuring that standard operating procedures and work instructions are implemented.
• Provide timely and accurate inputs to monthly, quarterly, and annual technical reports as required.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least eight years of relevant background and related job experience with MEL and CLA on donor programs of similar size, regional scope, and complexity, preferably focused on access to finance, with USAID, and/or in East Africa
•  Experience as a direct supervisor including supervising teams in fast moving, multi-component programs.
• Degree in a related field of study (e.g., economics, finance and investment, business management, international trade, etc.)
• Experience with Gender Integration and Social Inclusion (GESI), gender analysis, and/or integrating the voices of women in business and government in the design and implementation of activities.
• Excellent interpersonal, diplomacy, and leadership skills, including the ability to manage high-level relationships and complex regional dynamics.
•  Fluency in English required; and fluency in one or more regional languages preferred.
• Local candidates (i.e. residents of the five target countries) preferred.