IMA World Health, a member of Corus International, is seeking applications for the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director for the anticipated USAID-funded Ukraine Mental Health Initiative for National Development (U-MIND). U-MIND is expected to establish an evidence-informed, inclusive mental health ecosystem. By promoting mental wellness, the project will contribute to and enhance productivity, resilience, and social cohesion, focusing on the growth, efficacy, adaptiveness, and accessibility of mental health services.

Corus International was formed through the strategic merger of IMA World Health (operating as a public health organization since 1960), and Lutheran World Relief (operating as a livelihoods organization since 1945), and today includes the smaller entities of CGA Technologies, Ground Up Investing, and Farmers Market Coffee. Corus International works in over 20 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, with a primary focus on health, livelihoods, and emergency response.

Today, IMA offers extensive expertise in managing and implementing highly successful and complex donor-funded programs in nutrition, maternal and child health, health systems strengthening (HSS), malaria, HIV/AIDS, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). IMA has managed an average of $100 million annually over the last four fiscal years, through grants and contracts from DFID, USAID, CDC, World Bank, the Global Fund, OFDA, UNDP, MCC, and private donors. IMA has been implementing donor-funded programming in Ukraine since 2022 full-scale invasion.

The MEL Director will support the Chief of Party (COP) and the Deputy Chief of Party (DCo P) in managing all aspects of the MEL scope for Corus/IMA and its consortium partners within the U-MIND Activity. S/he will oversee the relevant MEL staff at Corus and its partner organizations; lead data collection, processing, and generation as part of the project reporting and documentation efforts; provide a direct oversight role in the quality monitoring of the activities management of technical capacity building; and follow up. S/he will support the Co P and the DCOP in regular liaison with key stakeholders representing the program, including assigned USAID in-country technical advisors and other staff; relevant Government of Ukraine's Ministry stakeholders, and civil society networks within the scope of MEL inputs and outputs. This position reports directly to the Chief of Party.

The MEL Director will be based in Kyiv with some travel to the project target geographies. Actual hiring is contingent upon successful agreement award and USAID approval.

Duties:

• Coordinate with the COP, DCo P, relevant consortium partners and the headquarters based MEL Advisors and practice lead(s) in the design and management of the MEL components, ensuring strategic planning of activities is informed by project and relevant U-MIND data sets.
• Lead the design and implementation of all monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities, including the development of the project's performance monitoring plan; development and monitoring of project indicators; implementation of project evaluation, quality assurance, and auditing of data.
• Design and implement mechanisms for continuous collaboration, learning, and adapting (CLA) for project staff, partners, donors, host country government counterparts, and other stakeholders.
• Oversee a project team of monitoring, evaluation, and learning staff and ensure clear roles and responsibilities and lines of communication are maintained amongst the team members.
• Ensure that lessons learned are integrated into project implementation to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes.
• Lead the design and implementation of operations research.
• Responsible for documenting and disseminating project successes and challenges to USAID.

Qualifications:

• An advanced degree in research methods, statistics, biostatistics, quantitative/qualitative data analysis, public health, social/behavioral sciences, or other relevant medical or health discipline.
• Minimum of 8 years working on monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning in the field of public health, maternal and child health, family planning, and/or other infectious disease programs, as well as knowledge of monitoring of results-based financing programs.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in collecting, analyzing, and managing donor-funded project data for health projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing M&E systems consistent with USAID protocols for data collection and reporting.
• At least 5 years of experience with USAID's Theory of Change (To C) and CLA approach, including developing and integrating the CLA approach within project frameworks and leading CLA approaches across partners and technical focus areas to yield successful collaboration and integration.
• Familiarity with USG MEL reporting procedures and systems.
• Excellent English oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Experience living or working in Ukraine or the region is preferred.
• Knowledge of Ukrainian (and/or Russian) is preferred.