Global Technical Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL)

Job Description

Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY :

The Global Technical Advisor, MEL leads strategy, system development, and support for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning across HIAS Country Offices (COs) and at HQ. This role is responsible for developing, harmonizing, and institutionalizing MEL frameworks, policies, and tools that align with the organization’s impact and results framework and donor requirements. The Advisor promotes learning and evidence-generation agendas and provides responsive, hands-on support to COs to ensure compliance against award commitments and strengthens program quality and impact more broadly.

This position reports to the Program Design and Impact Lead and is a critical member of the Program Design and Impact Team, ensuring strong oversight, troubleshooting, and systems-level improvement related to our data management and governance practices.

Note, this position is based at our headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland or our office in New York, New York, and we will consider a remote option for applicants who live outside of commuting distance to either of our offices and are based in other states in which we are registered (Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin).

The salary range for this position is $70,000-85,000.00.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS :

GLOBAL MEL SYSTEMS AND STRATEGY

• Lead the design, adaptation, and harmonization of global MEL standards, guidance, and frameworks to ensure strategic alignment and data comparability across countries.
• Oversee the implementation of MEL systems supporting planning, monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and research at all levels of the organization, including effective management and support of HIAS’ Case Management System (CMS) and building tools and capacity for robust M&E infrastructure.
• Define and guide CO teams on approaches for indicator selection, target setting, establishing baselines, and results tracking, ensuring that output, outcome, and impact indicators fit donor and programmatic priorities.
• Ensure ongoing data quality assurance, validation, and consistency across projects and sites, using quantitative and qualitative methods to gather accurate, timely information.
• Regularly track activities and outputs against work plans and timelines; identify and report delays for corrective action.
• Generate regular monitoring reports (monthly, quarterly, annually) and conduct impact evaluations as needed, supporting COs in preparing donor, partner, and internal M&E reports.
• Foster use of M&E data for adaptive management and strategic decision making, including supporting data visualization and dashboards.
• Champion a learning and evidence culture by driving organizational learning agendas, synthesizing and disseminating lessons learned, promoting use of evidence to adapt and improve programs, and facilitating learning exchanges across COs and teams.
• Ensure ethical standards and data protection in all M&E activities.
• Remain up-to-date on sector best practices and innovations; represent the organization in MEL-related external technical forums and working groups.

MEL CAPACITY BUILDING AND CO SUPPORT

COLLABORATION AND INTEGRATION

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS :