Working under the supervision of the Chief of Party (COP), the MEL Manager will provide technical leadership, oversight, and strategic direction for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities for an upcoming USAID-funded project in Nepal. S/he will oversee the monitoring, evaluation and learning components of this award. The project will seek to increase adolescents’ knowledge and adoption of healthy reproductive health behaviors. The MEL Manager will provide technical leadership to develop the project framework, plans and indicators to capture performance results and provide effective, accurate and timely monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all project activities. The ideal candidate will have experience implementing systems for adaptive management and learning. The MEL Manager will supervise and manage the M&E team to design and implement project MEL activities, ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into project implementation to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes. The MEL Manager is responsible for documenting and disseminating project successes and challenges to USAID. The MEL Manager will liaise with consortium partners and the Ministry of Health to implement M&E activities. This position is contingent upon donor approval and funding.

• Familiarity with Nepali health management information system, other national M&E systems,
• Excellent analytical skills coupled with proven ability in using visuals like graphs, charges, maps, and GIS
• Demonstrated ability to use HMIS (DHIS2 or DATIM) for reporting or analysis
• Demonstrated experience working with USAID large-scale programs, including knowledge of USAID’s reporting requirements on reproductive health /family planning
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, operations research, health management information systems, reporting, data quality assessments, quantitative and qualitative data analysis and presentation.
• Strong technical skills, including ability to process and analyze data using one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Stata, or SAS.
• Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID, host-country counterparts, and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector.
• Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, and organizational, teambuilding, and representational skills.
• Experience hiring and supervising personnel and ensuring they acquire the necessary training and skills to meet evolving project needs.
• Demonstrated experience with PMP development and implementation 

• Advanced postgraduate degree in public health, demography, epidemiology, biostatistics, social science, or any related field. PhD candidates preferred.
• Minimum seven years of work experience in monitoring and evaluating large, multiyear international health sector development projects, with strong preference for candidates with deep understanding of adolescent sexual and reproductive health/family planning