MEL Manager - Faith and Community Initiative (FCI)

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Employee Contract Type:Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description

Recruitment is Contingent upon award and Donor Approval

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

MEL System Design and Implementation (20%)

• Lead development, periodic review and implementation of the FCI Tanzania MEL Plan, aligned with the global FCI MEL framework and Tanzania national health-sector monitoring systems.
• Develop and maintain country-specific: results framework; indicator matrix; indicator reference sheets; performance monitoring plan; data-flow diagrams; data-collection tools; reporting calendars; data-quality protocols; and learning agenda.
• Adapt global FCI indicators and definitions to the Tanzania context while ensuring comparability across FCI countries and consistency with Government and donor indicator definitions.
• Establish an integrated MEL architecture covering the full hub-and-spoke pathway i.e. community platforms → spokes → hubs → regional/council systems → national reporting systems.
• Define clear data roles, reporting responsibilities, source documents, reporting frequency and verification arrangements for WVT, participating health facilities, community partners and other consortium members.
• Ensure MEL is integrated into country work planning, technical implementation, budgeting and partner agreements from programme inception.
• Work with the Technical Director to establish indicators and measurement approaches for: integrated service delivery; facility performance; hub and spoke functionality; workforce capacity; supportive supervision; service quality; community engagement; referral completion; continuity of care; and transition and sustainability.
• Establish systems that allow performance to be analysed by relevant dimensions such as geography, facility, hub/spoke, age, sex, population group and intervention.
• Where appropriate, incorporate GIS/geospatial analysis to support geographic prioritization, service-gap analysis, partner mapping and visualization of FCI coverage.

End Results

• A functional, integrated and fit-for-purpose FCI Tanzania MEL system is established and maintained, aligned with the global FCI MEL framework, donor requirements and Tanzania's national health-information systems. Clear indicators, data flows, tools, responsibilities and reporting mechanisms enable reliable tracking of results across communities, spokes, hubs and national systems.

Performance Management, Data Use and Adaptive Learning(20%)

• Establish and coordinate a routine programme performance management system that tracks progress against FCI results, indicators, targets and milestones across communities, spokes, hubs, regions, partners and priority population groups.
• Develop and maintain performance dashboards, scorecards and analytical products that enable the Chief of Party, Technical Director, Government and implementing partners to rapidly identify performance trends, gaps, geographic disparities and implementation bottlenecks.
• Lead periodic performance review and data-use meetings with programme leadership, technical teams, Government counterparts and partners, ensuring identified gaps are translated into clear corrective actions, responsibilities and timelines and systematically followed through.
• Conduct and facilitate integrated analysis of programme, service-delivery, referral, quality and contextual data to identify factors affecting referral completion, continuity of care, service quality, frontline health-worker performance and achievement of programme results.
• Promote a culture of evidence-based adaptive management, ensuring programme data, implementation experience and stakeholder feedback are routinely used to adjust work plans, geographic priorities, implementation approaches and technical support in collaboration with programme leadership.
• Establish mechanisms to capture, synthesise and share performance learning, ensuring lessons from high- and low-performing sites, innovations and corrective actions inform continuous quality improvement, programme adaptation, Government/partner learning and replication of effective approaches

End Results

• FCI Tanzania routinely uses credible and timely performance evidence to guide programme decisions and continuous improvement. Performance gaps and implementation bottlenecks are identified early, corrective actions are systematically tracked and completed, and learning from implementation is translated into timely programme adaptations that improve service delivery, partner performance and achievement of FCI results.

Data Quality, Analysis, and Reporting(15%)

• Lead country data collection, entry, management, cleaning, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of performance and contextual indicators.

• Conduct routine data quality assessments (RDQAs/DQAs), data verification, and data review meetings to ensure high-quality data are captured and reported.

• Contribute to donor and government reports, including periodic donor reporting (e.g., DATIM or the applicable GHSD reporting system), narratives, and dashboards.

• Support preparation of technical presentations, learning products, and evidence of summaries for country and consortium stakeholders.