Monitoring & Evaluation Manager

Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Manager

Reports to: Senior Director of Monitoring & Evaluation

Status: Contractor

Location: Nairobi, Kenya; Pretoria, South Africa; or Remote Home Office (Africa)

Foundation Overview:

The Max Foundation is a leading global health nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating health equity. For more than 28 years, Max has pioneered practical, scalable, high-quality solutions to bring life-extending treatments and patient-centered health care to more than 100,000 people living with cancer and critical illness in low- and middle-income countries. Max believes in a world where all people can access high-impact medicines, where geography is not destiny, and where everyone can strive for health with dignity and with hope. Learn more at www.themaxfoundation.org.

Role Summary:

The Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, reporting to the Senior Director of Monitoring & Evaluation, will be a key member of The Max Foundation’s growing M&E function, supporting impact measurement, evidence generation, and technical project management across Max’s global health programs. This role will provide strong technical project management across Max’s M&E and evidence-generation portfolio, ensuring that complex projects are well organized, timely, accurate, and aligned with organizational priorities.

The Monitoring & Evaluation Manger will also help develop and manage project plans, budgets, timelines, deliverables, submissions, consultants, vendors, and cross-functional workstreams and will also include technical contributions to project design, data analysis and visualization, technical writing, proposal development, and synthesis of findings for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities:

• Provide project management support for M&E and evidence-generation projects, including workplans, timelines, deliverables, meetings, decision tracking, and follow-up
• Contribute to technical concept notes, proposals, and budget development, including scopes of work, resource needs, consultant/vendor costs, project expenses, and invoice tracking
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration with internal teams, external consultants, vendors, and technical experts to advance M&E and evidence generation priorities
• Support management of consultants and vendors, including scopes of work, timelines, deliverables, invoices, and communications
• Coordinate abstract, conference, publication, regulatory, ethics, and institutional submissions, including tracking requirements, documentation, approvals, and deadlines
• Maintain organized project records, submission files, reporting trackers, datasets, budgets, and other M&E documentation
• Support the development and refinement of M&E frameworks, indicators, tools, and reporting processes in alignment with organizational strategy and impact measurement priorities
• Contribute to the design and implementation of evaluation and evidence-generation activities, including assessments, surveys, methodologies, tools, and data collection instruments
• Manage data collection, extraction, and analysis across programs to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities related to program reach, patient outcomes, and health system impact
• Contribute to M&E reports, grant proposals, partner reports, abstracts, manuscripts, presentations, and other evidence-based materials
• Develop data visualizations, dashboards, charts, infographics, and summaries that make findings clear, compelling, and accessible to diverse audiences
• Support the development of plain-language summaries, evidence briefs, publication summaries, and other materials that translate findings for non-technical audiences
• Coordinate translation of M&E documents for global audiences, working with internal teams or external translation support as needed
• Conduct literature reviews and background research to support abstracts, manuscripts, proposals, reports, and evidence briefs
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand data and evidence needs and promote consistent use of M&E findings, publications, and other evidence-based materials

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, global health, epidemiology, social sciences, health economics, statistics, international development, data science, or a related field required; Master’s degree preferred
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in monitoring and evaluation, impact measurement, global health, public health research, program evaluation, project management, or research project coordination
• Experience managing complex projects or cross-functional workstreams with internal teams, consultants, vendors, and external partners
• Experience supporting technical concept notes, proposal development, project budgets, scopes of work, and cross-functional project planning
• Experience supporting M&E frameworks, indicators, data collection systems, reporting, evaluations, or evidence-generation projects
• Experience or familiarity with quantitative and qualitative data methods, including managing, analyzing, and interpreting program data, surveys, interviews, case studies, or thematic analysis
• Experience or familiarity with evaluation tools, survey design, data collection instruments, analysis plans, and methods documentation
• Experience coordinating abstracts, publications, and conference submissions.
• Familiarity with regulatory, ethics, IRB, or institutional submissions related to research, evaluation, or publication activities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel required; experience with SPSS, REDCap, SurveyMonkey, or other data and visualization tools preferred
• Ability to translate data into clear insights, findings, visuals, and recommendations for non-technical audiences
• Experience working in global health, access to medicines, oncology, health systems strengthening, or LMIC-focused programs preferred
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills; fluency in French, Spanish, or another language a plus

Skills and Attributes:

• Passionate about The Max Foundation’s mission and committed to using data and evidence to accelerate health equity
• Experience and interest in impact measurement and evidence generation in global health
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and committed to accuracy and data integrity
• Strong project manager who can keep complex, multi-stakeholder projects moving forward
• Analytical thinker who can identify trends, gaps, and opportunities in program data
• Clear communicator who can translate data and evidence into practical insights, visuals, and recommendations for different audiences
• Able to work responsibly with sensitive or confidential program and patient-related data.
• Collaborative and flexible, with the ability to work effectively across teams, countries, time zones, consultants, vendors, and external partners
• Self-starter who takes ownership of tasks and follows through with minimal supervision
• Comfortable managing competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Culturally aware and comfortable working with international teams and diverse populations
• Mission-driven and committed to Max’s organizational values and guiding principles

Compensation: We offer compensation commensurate with experience. No relocation provided.

To Apply: Visit our website at https://www.themaxfoundation.org/careers to apply. Please include résumé and cover letter.

The Max Foundation is dedicated to diversity in staff and is an equal opportunity employer.

Excellent written and verbal English communication skills; fluency in French, Spanish, or another language a plus