Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Manager
Scope: The MEL Manager is a global leadership role responsible for driving EWS-KT’s monitoring, evaluation, and learning strategy across countries. This role requires a leader who can credibly measure impact, generate evidence, and influence program design and strategy. The MEL Manager will embed a culture of data-driven decision-making and ensure that MEL systems produce actionable insights at scale. The role functionally manages a team of 10 MEL Officers across multiple countries and works closely with the Data Specialist, Knowledge Transfer Managers, and program teams to strengthen implementation quality and impact.
Place of work: Any EWS-KT country of operation (Asia / Africa); to be based at the EWS-KT office in the host country
Employment: Full Time Permanent
Travel: 50% travel to KT locations. International travel required
Reporting: Global Head – Impact
About Us
East-West Seed Knowledge Transfer Foundation (EWS-KT) trains smallholder farmers in sustainable and profitable vegetable farming techniques and improves their business skills. In this way, we aim to increase the supply of safe-to-eat vegetables, while positioning vegetable production as an attractive and viable business opportunity. We currently work with farmers in 10 countries in Africa and Asia.
A strong monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) function is central to our work in ensuring that programs are impactful, scalable, and continuously improving through data-driven insights.
Key Responsibilities
1. Global MEL Leadership & Impact Measurement
- Lead and drive MEL strategy across all countries, positioning MEL as a core strategic function
- Design and strengthen robust impact measurement frameworks to assess changes in farmer productivity, incomes, adoption of practices, and market outcomes
- Ensure all MEL systems generate credible, evidence-based insights on how interventions address systemic constraints such as low productivity, market access, and input availability
- Align MEL practices with international standards (e.g., OECD-DAC) and ensure consistency across countries
2. Team Leadership & Management
- Lead, manage, and mentor a team of ~10 MEL Officers across countries
- Set clear goals, ensure accountability, and build a high-performing and collaborative team
- Strengthen the MEL staff’s technical and managerial capacity
3. Cross-functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Knowledge Transfer Managers across countries to integrate MEL into program design and implementation
- Influence program teams to use data for adaptive management and continuous improvement
- Ensure strong coordination between the MEL, data, and program teams
4. MEL Systems & Data Quality
- Develop and standardize MEL frameworks, indicators, and monitoring plans across countries
- Strengthen digital monitoring systems (including KT App) to track trainings, outreach, and farmer-level changes
- Establish and enforce rigorous data quality assurance systems, including routine audits and verification processes
5. Program Design & Impact Evaluation
- Lead MEL inputs into proposal development, including logframes and theory of change
- Design and oversee impact evaluations and studies to quantify changes in yields, incomes, adoption of practices, and system-level outcomes
- Ensure integration of gender and youth inclusion in all measurement frameworks and analyses
6. Learning, Insights & Reporting
- Analyze and synthesize quantitative and qualitative data to generate actionable insights
- Lead program reviews, evaluations, and impact assessments across countries
- Translate data into clear recommendations to improve program effectiveness and scale
- Document and disseminate lessons learned, best practices, and evidence of impact
7. Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Support communication of program impact to donors, partners, and global stakeholders
- Provide strategic inputs for organizational reporting and external visibility
- Strengthen evidence-based decision-making at all levels of the organization
Skills & Requirements
- Master’s degree in social sciences, statistics, development studies, climate change, agriculture, or related field
- 6–8 years of experience in MEL, research, or impact evaluation
- Proven experience managing teams across multiple countries
- Strong experience in agriculture, rural development, or livelihoods programs
- Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing impact measurement frameworks
- Experience in gender and youth inclusion is an advantage
- Strong leadership and people management skills
- Ability to influence across functions and geographies
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Strong communication, presentation, and storytelling with data
- Ability to translate evidence into strategy and action
- Strong grounding in quantitative and qualitative research methods
- Experience with data systems, dashboards, and analytical tools
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)
- Willingness to travel internationally
What We Offer
- A high-impact global leadership role shaping MEL across multiple countries
- Opportunity to build and strengthen evidence-based programming at scale
- Collaborative and mission-driven work environment
- Direct engagement with senior leadership and strategic decision-making
Applicant Information
At EWS-KT, we value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, color, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or belief.
Due to the high volume of applications, only short-listed candidates will be contacted. To apply, please email your CV and a cover letter outlining your interest in the position to ews.kthr@eastwestseed.com