About Us
MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.
Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centered care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.
We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.
About the Role
MSI seeks an Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Advisor for an anticipated five-year, FCDO-funded global family planning activity. This role will also support other donor projects as required.
WISH2 is the successor to the 5-year £272m Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) programme and will support women and adolescents, particularly the poor and most marginalised, to have greater voice, choice and control over their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and improve the enabling environment for SRHR and gender equality as part of an accelerated, African-led inclusive demographic transition.
WISH 2 is one of three components of the overarching WISH Dividend programme that is being procured by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO). WISH 2 will support targeted countries on comprehensive SRHR including support for service delivery and technical assistance. WISH 2 will be divided into two geographic Lots, and the role will be dedicated to Lot 1 including Chad, DRC, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. The Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor will lead the MEL agenda for WISH 2 and will be responsible for positioning MSI evidence and learning to contribute to sector-wide thought leadership on SRHR.
About You
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission and a focus on delivering measurable results. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and clients alike.
To perform this role, it is essential that you have the following skills:
- Proven ability to liaise effectively with and collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including global, regional, national, local, public, and private partners.
- Excellent skills in communicating evidence, excellent facilitation skills with proven ability to synthesize complex technical component into easy to understand briefs or presentation.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective relationships across an organisation to achieve mutual objectives and maximise opportunities.
- Exceptional problem-solving abilities and demonstrated confidence in handling difficult situations.
- Excellent people and negotiation skills and ability to work effectively in cross-cultural settings and with a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Fluent English oral and written communication skills.
- Fluency in French oral and written communication skills is highly desirable.
To perform this role, it is essential that you have the following experience:
- At least eight years of experience in setting up and implementing monitoring and evaluating activities for large and complex donor-funded health programs, with experience working on SRHR programmes.
- Proven experience with health research, reproductive health, abortion and / or family planning
- Proven experience in writing, editing, and disseminating research and evaluation findings across various audiences.
- Expertise in qualitative and quantitative research methods, and data visualization.
- Excellent data analysis skills using statistical software packages (STATA or R) and advanced excel skills; experience of advanced quantitative analysis techniques such as Interrupted Time Series Analysis, multilevel regression etc is highly desirable.
- Good track record of leading, supporting, and coaching teams and counterparts.
- Understanding and demonstrated knowledge of FCDO planning and reporting systems, operations, programming, structure, and family planning compliance regulations, including payment by results and value for money is highly desirable.
Formal Education/Qualifications
- Degree in a relevant discipline, such as public health, epidemiology, demographics, statistics, or a related field.
- Additional qualification or formal training in research design or impact evaluation is desirable.
- Additional qualification or formal training in research design, epidemiology or impact evaluation, data visualisation such as PowerBI is desirable.
Personal Attributes:
We seek exceptional individuals who are aligned to MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You must be a strong communicator, self-motivated and solutions-seeking, committed to driving social change in an environment that measures sustainable results and impact at an individual and global level. You must be able to work effectively with and across diverse teams and be comfortable with ambiguity.
For this role, we’re looking for an individual who is:
- A strong supporter of the cause of family planning and a woman’s right to safe abortion (pro-choice)
- Quality-focused and results-orientated
- Proactive
- Highly organised
- Decisive and confident
- Resourceful and determined.
- Self-aware
- Willing to travel
This position is contingent upon funding being awarded to MSI and on approval of the candidate by FCDO. Candidates must have the legal right to work in either the United Kingdom, or a country where MSI currently works.
For more information about the role, please view the job description on our website.
Location: London (UK), Dakar (Senegal) or Kinshasa (DRC)
Full-time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday (UK contracted hours)
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: A competitive salary and benefits package will be provided in line with the national context, dependent on location of the successful candidate.
Closing date: 17th November 2023 (midnight GMT). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.
For internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the role will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country. Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.