Monitoring

Full Time _
- New Delhi _
- Posted 52 mins ago _

**_POSITION VACANT: _**_Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) Manager _

**_LOCATION: _**_New Delhi, India. This position requires the ability to travel within India, up to 50% of the time. _

**_TYPE OF CONTRACT: _**_Fixed-term contract till September 2026 _

**_REPORTS TO: _**_Senior Technical Advisor (STA), Market Dynamics _

**_GRADE LEVEL: _**_M2 _

**_ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND _**_:

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**_ACCESS Health International (AHI) _**_is a non-profit, think tank and advisory group with the mission of improving access to high-quality and affordable healthcare for all people. _**_AHI _**_advises national and regional governments and the private sector on the design and management of healthcare finance and delivery systems. Established in 2007, the organization is located in India and Singapore, and is headquartered in the USA. _

**_AHI’s _**_vision is that all people, no matter where they live, and no matter what their age, have a right to access high-quality and affordable healthcare and to lead healthy and productive lives. _

**_PROJECT OVERVIEW _**
- ACCESS Health International seeks a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) manager for the ongoing USAID Frontier Health Markets (FHM) Engage project in India. Building on over 30 years of USAID investment, FHM Engage focuses on strengthening local health markets by addressing the root causes of market failures in the core market functions to create the necessary behavior change that catalyzes supply and demand and supports sustainable change. _

**_JOB SUMMARY _**
- As the MERL Manager on the FHM Engage activity in India, you will provide in-country monitoring, evaluation, research and learning technical leadership, support data collection and reporting for monitoring and evaluation activities and contribute to effective activity communications on activities in India. As part of this work, you will work closely with local and global stakeholders to achieve the program’s objectives. _
- The MERL Manager will collaborate with the STA Market Dynamics, the technical team, USAID, and other market stakeholders as necessary to develop, refine, and test a theory of change that reflects FHM Engage’s market development approach. The MERL Manager will also be responsible for overseeing implementation of the Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning plan (AMELP) and designing and populating the project’s MERL system, ensuring that the system incorporates metrics that reflect important market functions, supporting functions, and changes in market outputs. S/he will work with technical staff to develop and oversee tools for data collection, storage, and analysis. S/he will train staff and partners on MERL system operations, collection methods, and tools. S/he will perform data analyses, generate reports of findings, and create graphics to contribute to reporting requirements and project communications products. S/he will contribute to FHM Engage India communications by contributing to key program deliverables including quarterly and annual reports and other deliverables that convey program data. S/he will also collect and disseminate lessons learned, share successes during project implementation, and plan for and manage performance evaluations as required. In conjunction with the STA Market Dynamics, s/he will support implementation of a learning plan to support the project team in learning from its data. _

**_KEY RESPONSIBILITIES _**
- Set up the MEL system _
- _Work closely with India-based team as well as colleagues based in the US, including the FHM Engage global MERL team _
- _Collaborate with the STA Market Dynamics and global MERL team to maintain the approved AMELP - ensuring that it aligns with cooperative agreement requirements, client objectives, and program approaches - including defining indicators and drafting indicator reference sheets _
- _Support the India team in refining and updating the project’s results framework and theory of change as the project evolves _
- _Ensure that activity leadership, technical staff, and operations staff understand the importance of monitoring and evaluation and the use of information for learning purposes _
- _Ensure the activity staff understand their roles and responsibilities in the collection of data for the monitoring and evaluation system _
- _Develop budget estimates for MEL tasks _
- _Ensure that all Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs), service agreements, or other contractual arrangements with partners stipulate their responsibilities for data collection and monitoring _
- _Develop data collection tools necessary for capturing and reporting on project indicator data _
- _Enter and maintain project data in Chemonics’ Monitoring and Evaluation Software (DevResults) and (as necessary) to the USAID Development Information Solution (DIS) _
- Implement the project’s approved AMELP _
- _Organize and oversee the collection o