M&E and Research Manager
VVOB – education for development is an international non-profit organisation with over 40 years’ experience in strengthening the quality of education systems in Africa, Asia and South America in close partnership with ministries of education and their institutions. Our head office is based in Brussels, Belgium. We implement our programmes and projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education.
Do you share our ambition to ensure that learners around the world can enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception? Are you convinced as well that quality education guarantees equal opportunities for everyone and is the key to a better world? We are looking for a M&E and Research Manager who will operate from our office in Lusaka. Do you want to take on this challenge? Then continue reading!
Position in the organisation
The M&E and Research Manager is part of the country management team and thus plays a vital leadership role in the overall programmes team and the country office. You lead and guide a team of M&E and Research staff and oversee and coordinate their activities. You work closely with the programme team in country and at global office. You work with M&E and Research staff and Ministry of Education (MoE) officials at national and province levels to ensure learning activities are implemented effectively according to agreed work plans, budgets and VVOB principles, and delivered with quality. The M&E and Research Manager reports to the Country Programmes Manager.
Result areas of this position:
Lead the M&E and Research team to ensure strong M&E and research systems and activities for all VVOB programmes in Zambia, in collaboration with the Education Manager, Project Coordinators and Strategic Advisors. You will also contribute to the overall management of the VVOB Zambia country programmes.
Easily navigate between M&E, research, planning and strategic operations, ensuring that we collect and use qualitative and quantitative data to inform decisions about the programmes, while establishing effective feedback and learning mechanism within the organization.
Provide expert leadership and guidance on how and when M&E and research activities (including impact evaluations) should take place to strengthen the programmes.
Support the M&E and Research team to plan, allocate and prioritise tasks to execute data collection, analysis and dissemination for cross-cutting learning and projects on specific topics of interest, both through regular programme monitoring and evaluation as well as rigorous research. Guide the team to deliver research activities with high quality, while ensuring IRB compliance and adhering to research ethics protocols.
You provide strong leadership (on-the-job mentoring, work-planning coaching, capacity development, change management) for your direct reports, supporting a positive organisational culture. You mobilise the M&E and Research team and keep them on track to meet deliverables with high quality.
You foster good relationships with a range of stakeholders (other VVOB teams, in the Ministry, in donor and partner organizations, and in survey firms) to ensure that their needs and limitations are fully understood and incorporated into learning activities as far as possible, securing their cooperation and support.
You promote VVOB as a reliable partner and you represent our organization towards external stakeholders in the field.