MANY GIFTS, ONE TEAM.
Join our U.S, Zambia, and Malawi-based teams to help moms and caregivers in Africa raise SAFE KIDS, grow STRONG FAMILIES, and build SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES.
CURRENT OPENINGS
Regional MEL Coordinator
Location: East or Southern Africa
Job Type: Full Time
Contract: 5 years dependent on funding
Start Date: March 2025
Core Responsibilities:
• Provide leadership to the program team to ensure program quality, monitoring and evaluation, accountability and learning in the program implementation.
● Lead on the operationalization and implementation of the MEL framework; conduct periodic revision of the M&E framework and ensure the framework is effective and relevant to each country's context at national and regional level and compliant with USAID guidelines.
● Undertake and provide MEL capacity building, technical support and training to the program team at country level, and sub-grantees.
● Review country-level M&E frameworks to ensure coherence.
● Provide leadership in managing all aspects of the project information management for accurate and accessible filing and record-keeping of all data collected in the projects.
● Work collaboratively with and support the Regional technical and the country leads Lead on Inclusion, the MEL framework, project baselines, mid-term reviews and evaluations.
● Work and collaborate with national governments to strengthen data management systems.
● In collaboration with the CoP, technical lead and the 3 Country Leads determine the content and ways to share knowledge/information to internal and external audiences.
Regional Technical Lead
Location: East or Southern Africa
Job Type: Full Time
Contract: 5 years dependent on funding
Start Date: March 2025
Core Responsibilities:
The role of the Regional Technical Lead to oversee and support the country teams in all aspects of social work practices relating to performing the activities of the grant which are formulated as the three priority objectives:
1. Implementation of a family-based system of care,
2. RCF transition and child reintegration, and
3. Inclusive services and inclusion of priority populations in care reform.
The role extends to support for policy initiatives, handbooks for operationalizing rules and regulations, and review of training curriculums for staff, RCFs, and government employees. The Regional Technical Lead works closely with the Country Lead, Senior Social Workers, and MEL teams to ensure that social work practices, training activities and reporting are integrated and conducive to improved capacity of stakeholders. The Regional Technical Lead also serves as a backstop for ensuring that child safeguarding policies and beneficiary feedback processes are operationalized; that inclusion is ongoing and integrated into program design and implementation; and that anonymous reporting methods are in place.
The Regional Technical Lead also plays a primary role in supporting the continuous learning across partners and countries, and listens and incorporates field generated innovation, positive deviance among stakeholders, and shares evolving global best practices across organizations and stakeholders.
The quality of social work practices across all three countries (Zambia, Malawi, Uganda), including direct staff and key stakeholders is under the purview of the Regional Technical Lead.
About ACE and the African Alliance for Children & Families
Alliance for Children Everywhere is the Primary applicant for a consortium of partners working together to advance family systems of care in Africa. The geographic scope covers three countries: Zambia, Malawi, Uganda. The consortium brings together the leading local organisations in each country as Implementing Partners: Alliance for Children Everywhere in Zambia and Malawi and Childs I foundation in Uganda. Each partner is linked to national coalition, government ministries, universities, and national level institutions. The Technical Exchange and Assistance will be provided through Maestral international.
