Senior Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning(MEL) Officer

Overview Position : Senior MEL Officer Dept/Project : MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership (MCGL) Location : Province based (Bagmati, Karnali, Koshi, Gandaki and Sudur Paschim) Project End Date: June 2027 (Internal Vacancy-for Internal Staff Only) Position Overview MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership (MCGL), funded by the U.S. Government, is a global mechanism that saves lives and improves access to quality, integrated health services by distributing life-saving commodities, medicines, and vaccines, and providing critical health care services for pregnant mothers and children under five.

The project provides safe childbirth for mothers and babies, vaccinates children, treats deadly illnesses and malnutrition, and controls disease outbreaks. The Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer will play a key role in ensuring that project data are systematically collected, validated, analyzed, interpreted, and used to track progress, inform adaptive management, strengthen program implementation, and demonstrate results.

S/he will work closely with project team, Provincial Ministry of Health/Social Development, Health Directorates, health facilities, and other stakeholders to strengthen MEL systems, data quality and use, documentation, and dissemination of program results. Responsibilities Monitoring, Evaluation and Data Use Under the guidance of the MEL Lead, support implementation of monitoring and evaluation plans, ensuring alignment with approved workplan, donor, and government priorities.

Oversee timely collection, compilation, validation, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of routine and non-routine indicators. Monitor provincial and facility-level performance against targets and milestones; identify data and performance gaps and facilitate timely follow-up with relevant teams. Support the QI team in ensuring adherence to QI processes, standards, and activities by hospital teams Support provincial and health facility teams to strengthen data quality, completeness, timeliness, consistency, and use of data for decision-making.

Conduct and/or support data quality assessments, routine data verification, data cleaning, triangulation, and follow-up of agreed data-quality improvement actions. Collaborate with technical and provincial teams to analyze trends, identify emerging issues, generate evidence, and develop recommendations for program adaptation and management decisions. Promote a strong culture of data use by facilitating data review, interpretation, visualization, and evidence-based decision-making at provincial and facility levels.

Build the capacity of provincial project team and facility staff in indicator interpretation, data management, reporting, and data-use practices. Review provincial performance and MEL outputs, identify recurring implementation or reporting issues, and coordinate timely corrective actions with relevant technical and management teams. Use and support appropriate digital and information systems, including Excel, Power BI, Kobo/ODK, web-based MPDSR systems, and HMIS/DHIS2, as relevant to project monitoring and reporting.

Learning and Knowledge Management Facilitate and/or support implementation of adaptive management and learning (AML) strategies, including data-for-action meetings, after-action reviews, learning meetings, and other structured learning processes in collaboration with technical and provincial teams Identify, document, validate, and disseminate promising success stories, lessons learned, implementation experiences, and program adaptations from MCGL-supported provinces and sites.

Support development of knowledge products, including learning briefs, success stories, presentations, dashboards, data visualizations, and other products for internal and external audiences. Work with technical leads and provincial teams to translate monitoring and evaluation findings into clear messages, stories, and actionable learning for program teams and stakeholders. Support dissemi