Country Monitoring and Learning Manager – Rwanda at BRAC: (Deadline 5 April 2025)

Country Monitoring and Learning Manager – Rwanda at BRAC: (Deadline 5 April 2025)

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Position: Country Monitoring and Learning Manager – Rwanda

Report to: Country Director

Job Location: Kigali, Rwanda Country Office

About the Role:

The Monitoring and Learning (M&L) Manager will lead the Rwanda country M&L team, ensuring effective monitoring and learning processes across programs in BRAC Rwanda. This role involves analyzing regular monitoring data using quantitative and qualitative methods and generating reports for country leadership and program teams to support evidence-based decision-making. The M&L Manager will oversee the implementation of the country’s monitoring and learning systems, ensuring data quality, effective data management, and adherence to the relevant policies, procedures, and guidelines. Additionally, s/he will play a key role in fostering a culture of collaboration and learning within the program teams. The M&L Manager will also support programmatic decision-making by providing strategic and operational insights and supporting fundraising efforts through data-driven reporting, assessments, and proposal development, ensuring alignment with donor requirements and organizational priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership in managing and implementing Monitoring & Learning (M&L) activities throughout relevant project cycles, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in alignment with BRAC International’s M&L policies, procedures, practices, and reporting guidelines.
• Ensure country teams utilize appropriate Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) systems and tools.
• Provide strategic direction for developing and maintaining M&E systems and implementing new initiatives at the country level.
• Collaborate with the senior management team to identify and pursue strategic opportunities for program expansion.
• Lead mandated monitoring activities and assessments.
• Ensure the quality of collected data by managing tools and methods for assessing data accuracy for all indicators.
• Organize and oversee data quality assessments, jointly develop corrective measures action plans, and follow up on the action plans.
• Contribute to donor reports by providing high-quality project data interpretation and report inputs.
• Lead the M&L team in strategically preparing and reviewing M&E calendars and work plans.
• Ensure the M&L team actively participates in joint monitoring visits.
• Support BI’s digital programmatic activity reporting and monitoring platform by ensuring necessary support at the country level. Maintain strong collaboration with the country IT, BI IT, and T4D teams.
• Support is needed to conduct pause and reflect sessions to promote adaptive management and document lessons learned for program design and implementation in collaboration with the knowledge management focal person.
• Conduct orientations for new program staff on key M&L resources.
• Provide mentoring and capacity-building support to staff to enhance their skills and ensure annual performance and development goals are achieved.
• Any other tasks assigned by the supervisor

Safeguarding responsibilities:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation.
• Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Academic Qualifications:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Development studies, Statistics or Economics/methods, Computer Science or IT Business Computing, or a related field.

Required Skills, Competencies & Knowledge:

• Ability to organize, interpret, and present information effectively in oral and written forms for diverse audiences, providing solid analysis supporting sound decision-making.
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills, with high proficiency in communication, presentation, and reporting.
• Advanced computer skills, including proficiency in analytical software (e.g., Excel, SPSS, STATA, or R) and data visualization tools.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of web-based survey tools (e.g., Google Forms, ODK, Kobo, or CommCare) is desirable.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to thrive in a multi-cultural team environment.
• Results-oriented, with the ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Experience in supervising teams.
• Prior experience with donor-funded or development projects is an advantage.

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of working experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning, preferably with an International NGO.
• Must have extensive experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection methods.
• Experienced in establishing and managing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems.

Employment type: Regular/Fixed-Term

Salary: Negotiable

About BRAC International:

BRAC International (BI), a leading non-profit organization, is on a mission to empower people and communities facing poverty, illiteracy, disease, and social injustice. Our vision is to create a world free from exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential. We design proven, scalable solutions that equip people with the support and confidence they need to achieve their potential.

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 and over the last five decades has grown to become one of the world’s largest non-governmental organisations (NGOs), reaching over 100 million people. We started our first international operation by venturing into Afghanistan in 2002, building on lessons from our work in Bangladesh to support a nation devastated by war. Currently operating in 16 countries across Asia and Africa. Born, proven and led in the Global South, BRAC International brings a unique Southern perspective and commitment to continuous learning, providing a depth of insight, experience and evidence to meet the needs of diverse communities with humility and courage across Asia and Africa. To learn more about BRAC International, please visit (www.bracinternational.org)

Our Core Values:

Integrity: We approach our work with honesty and integrity.

Innovation: We innovate and iterate to improve our impact.

Inclusiveness: We foster inclusion to reach those who need it most.

Effectiveness: We strive for effectiveness to better serve people in poverty.

If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please follow the application process to grab your dream opportunity!

Qualified and interested candidates are recommended to email their Resume with a signed cover letter in a single PDF format and any supporting documents to [email protected] ; mentioning a brief academic background, career summary, core competence, notarized copies of academic qualifications and professional certifications (if any) etc. within 250 words.

Please mention the name of the position in the subject bar

Application deadline: 5^th April 2025

Please note that the shortlisting will be done on rolling basis and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation – regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure include extensive background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.

“BRAC International is an equal opportunities employer”