Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer

The Tanzania MEL Officer is responsible for implementing and strengthening monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems for the Country Integrated and Coordinated Community Health Workers (ICCHW) programme. This role is responsible for accurate data collection, credible reporting, and meaningful learning. The role ensures that evidence from the ICCCHW programme informs programme delivery, supports adaptation, and meets donor and organisational accountability standards.

Reporting to the MEL Manager, the MEL Officer translates approved results frameworks into operational data systems, tools, and processes that ensure quality, integrity, and usability of evidence. This role is also responsible for supporting the MEL Manager to track the implementation of the ICCHW programme MEL plan.

This role requires strong technical competence in data systems, attention to detail, ethical judgement, and the ability to operate effectively in dynamic programme environments.

Duties & Key Responsibilities:

1. Country Programme MEL Plan implementation
   • Apply programme-approved results frameworks and theories of change within the country context.
   • Ensure consistent use of agreed indicators, definitions, and data collection tools.
   • Support adaptation of tools to local context while safeguarding comparability and methodological integrity.
2. Data Collection Systems and Tools

• Apply ethical standards in data collection, informed consent, confidentiality, and data protection.
• Coordinate routine data collection processes across the ICCHW and implementing partners.
• Ensure appropriate quantitative and qualitative tools are applied correctly.
• Support digital and manual data systems management at country level.
• Maintain updated indicator tracking sheets and reporting dashboards.
• Ensure compliance with country data protection laws and donor requirements.

1. Data Quality Assurance and Management
   • Implement routine Data Quality Assurance (DQA) processes including verification, validation, and spot checks.
   • Ensure completeness, timeliness, accuracy, and reliability of country-level data.
   • Maintain structured data storage, documentation, and version control in line with organisational standards.
   • Identify and escalate data quality risks proactively, and ensure country level MEL systems and data are audit- and evaluation-ready throughout the programme lifecycle;
   • Protect the credibility of the country programme results through sound methodology and ethical data practices.
2. MEL Systems and Capability Building:
   • Strengthen country-level MEL capacity within programme teams and implementing partners to ensure consistent application of programme standards.
   • Work closely with the field teams to ensure all CHW training data collection and collation adheres to the MEL framework and database(s).
   • Ensure learning flows across the country programme, not only vertically through management lines.
   • Provide practical guidance to implementing partners on data requirements and reporting standards.
3. Reporting and Accountability
   • Prepare timely, accurate MEL inputs for donor reports and internal programme reviews.
   • Ensure alignment between MEL data, programme narrative, and financial reporting inputs.
   • Support audit and review processes from a results and evidence perspective.
   • Maintain country reporting calendars and deadlines.
4. Learning & Adaptive Management
   • Work collaboratively with Programme, Finance, Grants, and Communications functions to ensure alignment between delivery, evidence, and narrative and provide MEL insight as a programme resource, not as a managerial control mechanism.
   • Facilitate structured reflection sessions at the country level to review performance and identify improvements.
   • Support programme teams in interpreting data to inform delivery adjustments.
   • Document lessons learned, challenges, and good practices to support institutional memory.
5. Stakeholder Engagement & Influence:
   • Engage donors, government counterparts, and partners to align learning priorities and manage expectations, and strengthen the use of evidence for decision making.
   • Facilitate cross-partner learning communities to promote knowledge exchange and shared problem-solving.
   • Promote co-creation of learning with implementing partners and local communities, ensuring that learning processes are inclusive and contextually grounded.