Manager, Monitoring and Learning

Job Description

Title: Manager, Monitoring and Learning

Company Name: BRAC International

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: --

Experience:

• At least 5 years

Bachelor`s degree from a reputed university preferably in Statistics/ Development Studies/ Business Administration or Social Science.

• At least 5 years

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum five years of experience in managing large-scale MIS or monitoring systems in national/ international development organisations.

• Experience of quantitative analysis and narrative report writing.

• Experience in data management, analysis and reporting including large-scale database management.

Required Skills, Competencies & Knowledge:

• Understanding of current Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) trends

• Excellent written and spoken English skills.

• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office and appropriate data analysis packages (MS Excel, Google Sheets, Google BigQuery, Google Analytics, STATA, R, etc.).

• Commitment to gender and safeguarding issues.

• Mobile and flexible mindset to travel to project site when required.

• Flexible to work from distant location.

• Overseeing and travel to project site when required.

• Possess high ethical and moral standards.

About the Role:

BRAC International (BI) is seeking a Manager, Monitoring and Learning who will play an important role in strengthening credible, actionable, and responsible Monitoring and Learning systems across BI countries as part of the Learning and Effectiveness (L&E) department. The role provides technical and managerial support to ensure monitoring data are timely, accurate, and meaningfully used to drive adaptive programming and organisational learning.

Key responsibilities include cleaning and analysing monitoring data, producing concise analytical reports, and translating insights into actions to improve program quality. The Manager will also support digital monitoring platforms with L&E’s Technology for Development (T4D) function, contribute to report writing, proposal development, and promote a culture of data-driven learning and continuous improvement across BRAC International programmes. S/he will also ensure that the core values and mission of BI are upheld, promoted, followed, and applied across Learning and Effectiveness team at BRAC International.

Key Responsibilities:

Monitoring, learning, and evidence management

• Support BI country teams in development and roll-out of a comprehensive program monitoring system that monitors progress, measures quality of implementation, and generates actionable insights through efficient data collection.

• Contribute to strengthening the monitoring and learning functions across all BI countries by providing technical support in developing monitoring frameworks, Project Learning Plans, tools, analysis, and reporting.

• Assist T4D function to strengthen a BI-wide real-time/digital monitoring system (digital data gathering, analysis, reporting and visualisation using dashboards).

• Provide technical assistance in developing the MIS system for each of the BI countries, ensuring systematic, timely and credible data collection, cleaning, validation, analysis, and reporting.

• Conduct data analysis and prepare reports as directed by the L&E department.

• Provide technical assistance in fundraising proposals to secure adequate resourcing for MERL activities during the project lifecycle.

• Facilitate learning agendas, reflection sessions, and adaptive programming based on monitoring findings.

Digital monitoring

• With support from the Senior Manager, T4D, design and roll out digital data collection tools in collaboration with the BI Technology team.

• Support BI Technology and T4D to strengthen and maintain digital monitoring platforms that support real-time, data-driven decision-making.

• Ensure appropriate and efficient use of digital tools for data collection, visualisation, and reporting across programs and countries.

Capacity strengthening

• Strengthen the capacity of country M&L teams in monitoring, analysis, and digital data management.

• Provide technical backstopping support to ensure effective use of monitoring tools and systems.

Safeguarding Responsibilities

• Implement programme decisions keeping the safety and dignity of programme participants/clients at the center, mitigate safeguarding risks and contribute to a safe working environment where staff are respected and feel confident to voice concerns without fear of retaliation.

• Receive mandatory training on the safeguarding policies and reporting channels and have access to policies.

• Participate in discussions on the safeguarding agenda in monthly meetings and actively voice concerns without fear.

• Report safeguarding incidents witnessed or experiences to the Safeguarding department. For known cases, maintain neutrality, be sensitive and non-judgemental to victims/survivors, and cooperate with organisational investigations providing accurate information as needed.