About BRAC International 
BRAC is an award-winning international non-governmental development organisation, with the vision of a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realise their potential. BRAC is a leader in developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programs to assist poor and disadvantaged communities in low-income countries, including in conflict-prone and post-disaster settings. It is an organisation of and for the people of the Global South, pioneering new development and social enterprise approaches to equip communities to achieve prosperity. As well as being the world’s biggest NGO by number of staff and people directly reached, BRAC has regularly been ranked the number one NGO in the world by the Geneva-based NGO Advisor, an independent organisation committed to highlighting innovation, impact and governance in the non-profit sector. BRAC retained the top spot in 2020 among the top 500 NGOs for the fifth consecutive year.

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. It started its first program outside of Bangladesh in Afghanistan in 2002, and has since reached millions of people in 11 countries in Asia and Africa. BRAC has a holistic approach to development that uses a wide array of programs and social enterprises, including in microfinance, education, health, agriculture, gender and human rights. BRAC believes that every person has inherent potential, and when an enabling environment is created and that potential is unleashed, even the poorest can become agents of positive change in their own lives, for their families and their communities.

About the AIM Program
The Mastercard Foundation Accelerating Impact for Young Women (AIM) in Partnership with BRAC is equipping 2 million adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) with age-appropriate entrepreneurship, employability, and life-skills training, as well as the tools to start and scale their own businesses. The nine-year program (2021-2030) applies BRAC’s proven model using microfinance, youth empowerment, agriculture, education and skills development to improve lives and livelihoods. It currently operates in seven African countries: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Kenya. Based on the AGYW age, needs, and circumstances, AGYW are placed on one of two pathways in the AIM program: an education pathway or a livelihood pathway.
About the AIM Education Pathway
The AIM Education pathway is designed to increase access to and completion of quality secondary education for adolescent girls, aged 12-17, across the AIM countries: Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda. The program seeks to achieve three core objectives: (1) to empower 400,000 adolescent girls by increasing their agency, voice, and life skills; (2) to support adolescent girls to complete at least lower secondary school; and (3) to improve gender-responsive education in at least 2,000 secondary schools, positively impacting an estimated 2.4 million students.
This AIM education pathway is closely aligned with the Mastercard Foundation’s strategic priorities under its Young Africa Works initiative, particularly the emphasis on improving the quality and accessibility of secondary education to better prepare young people for meaningful work. Through a set of integrated interventions, AIM Education targets structural and social challenges that often hinder girls’ education—including financial barriers, inadequate infrastructure, undertrained teachers, harmful gender norms, lack of community support, and weak school governance systems.
Job summary
The Monitoring & Learning Manager will lead the Kenya country M&L team, ensuring effective monitoring and learning processes across BRAC Maendeleo Kenya's programs. This role involves analysing regular monitoring data using quantitative and qualitative methods and generating reports for country leadership and program teams to support evidence-based decision-making. The M&L Manager will oversee the implementation of the country’s monitoring and learning systems, ensuring data quality, effective data management, and adherence to the relevant policies, procedures, and guidelines. Additionally, s/he will play a key role in fostering a culture of collaboration and learning within the program teams. The Monitoring & Learning Manager will also support programmatic decision-making by providing strategic and operational insights and by advancing fundraising through data-driven reporting, assessments, and proposal development, ensuring alignment with donor requirements and organisational priorities.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership in managing and implementing Monitoring & Learning (M&L) activities throughout relevant project cycles, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in alignment with BRAC International’s M&L policies, procedures, practices, and reporting guidelines.
• Ensure country teams utilise appropriate Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) systems and tools.
• Provide strategic direction for developing and maintaining M&E systems and implementing new initiatives at the country level.
• Collaborate with the senior management team to identify and pursue strategic opportunities for program expansion.
• Lead mandated monitoring activities and assessments.
• Ensure the quality of collected data by managing tools and methods to assess data accuracy across all indicators.
• Organise and oversee data quality assessments, jointly develop corrective measures and action plans, and follow up on the action plans.
• Contribute to donor reports by providing high-quality project data interpretation and report inputs.
• Lead the M&L team in strategically preparing and reviewing M&E calendars and work plans.
• Ensure the M&L team actively participates in joint monitoring visits.
• Support BI’s digital programmatic activity reporting and monitoring platform by ensuring necessary support at the country level. Maintain strong collaboration with the country IT, BI IT, and T4D teams.
• Support is needed to conduct pause-and-reflect sessions to promote adaptive management and document the lessons learnt for program design and implementation in collaboration with the knowledge management focal point.
• Orient new program staff on the key M&L resources.
• Provide mentoring and capacity-building support to staff to enhance their skills and ensure the achievement of annual performance and development goals.
• Any other tasks assigned by the supervisor

Safeguarding Responsibilities

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals on safeguarding implementation
• Act as a key source of support, guidance, and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment
• Practice, promote, and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, and encourage others to do the same

Education, Experience and Skills:

• A university degree in Social Science, Social Studies, Development Studies, Statistics, Economics/Methods, or equivalent experience in monitoring and evaluating programs is required.
• A minimum of 5 years' work experience in project/programme MERL is required, with a preference for M&E in youth, empowerment, SRHR, education, and livelihood programs.
• Must have extensive experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection methods and analysis
  Experienced in establishing and managing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems.
• Ability to organise, interpret, and present information effectively in both oral and written forms for diverse audiences, offering solid analysis to support sound decision-making.
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills, with high proficiency in communication, presentation, and reporting.
• Advanced computer skills, including proficiency in analytical software such as Excel, SPSS, STATA, or R, as well as data visualisation tools.
• Strong analytical and organisational skills.
• Familiarity with web-based survey tools, such as Google Forms, ODK, Kobo, or CommCare, is desirable.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to thrive in a multicultural team environment.
• Results-orientated, capable of working under pressure and meeting tight deadlines.
• Experience in supervising teams.
• Prior experience with donor-funded or development projects is an advantage.

                                                                            BRAC is an equal opportunities employer.