Overview
The School Meals Accelerator (SMA) is seeking an Evidence, Monitoring & Reporting Consultant to strengthen its results, reporting, and adaptive learning functions. This role will lead day-to-day monitoring and end-to-end reporting workflows, ensuring information is accurate, timely, and aligned with SMA’s systemic learning-oriented approach.
Key Responsibilities
- Operationalize and evolve the measurement framework, including systems-oriented indicators.
- Collect, validate, and synthesize quantitative and qualitative data from SMA teams, governments, and partners.
- Maintain trackers, dashboards, and evidence files for timely sense-making.
- Produce short evidence products for reviews and briefings.
- Lead the preparation of major reporting products (Annual Report, Annual Plan, mid-year and end-of-year updates).
- Manage end-to-end reporting workflows, coordinating contributions across units.
- Draft and integrate clear, compelling narrative content linking evidence, country examples, system behaviours, and partner contributions.
- Produce and validate data annexes, indicator tables, visuals, and methodological notes.
- Identify and track emerging system shifts—including changes in norms, incentives, collaboration patterns, resource flows, and decision-making processes.
- Develop analytical and sense-making products that synthesize what is changing in the system and why.
- Document emergent learning from country engagement, surfacing positive deviances and leverage points.
- Curate continuous learning flows into reporting, leadership briefings, and strategy processes.
- Model SMA’s systemic leadership mindsets by practicing inclusive engagement, constructive feedback, transparency, and cross-team collaboration.
Required Experience
- At least five years of progressively responsible experience in evidence, learning, monitoring, reporting, analytics, or research in international development, humanitarian, or public-sector settings.
- Demonstrated international collaboration with diverse partners (governments, IFIs, UN agencies, civil society, private sector, academia) across regions and organizational levels.
- Experience applying systems-informed evaluation or adaptive-management approaches, including synthesizing qualitative and quantitative insights (patterns, themes, weak signals) to inform programme learning and adaptation.
- Hands-on experience with data collection, validation, and basic descriptive analysis, maintaining trackers/dashboards, and producing evidence summaries, visuals, or briefs for decision-makers and non-technical audiences.
- Experience managing or coordinating end-to-end reporting processes, including planning calendars, consolidating inputs, QA, visualization, drafting narrative sections, and ensuring coherent donor or corporate reporting outputs.
Qualifications
Education Advanced University degree in social sciences, statistics, development economics, performance management, monitoring and evaluation or other related fields ; or First University degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or training/courses.
