Senior Associate, Measurement, Evaluation & Learning (MEL)

ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW

The END Fund is a leading collaborative philanthropic investment vehicle dedicated to controlling and eliminating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). NTDs are parasitic and bacterial infectious diseases – including intestinal worms, river blindness, trachoma, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, and visceral leishmaniasis – that affect over 1.65 billion people globally. The END Fund’s vision is to ensure people can live healthy and prosperous lives free of the risk of NTDs and has set out to accomplish this by:

• Mobilizing and investing resources for maximum impact,
• Advocating for innovative, integrated and cost-effective NTD programs; and
• Facilitating philanthropic and private sector engagement to end these diseases.

By engaging a community of activist-philanthropists and taking a systems approach, the END Fund works in collaboration with governments, local and international NGOs, pharmaceutical companies, and academic partners on the global campaign to control and eliminate NTDs by 2030.

Since our founding in 2012 through 2023, with our partners, the END Fund has provided over 1.8 billion treatments for NTDs worth more than $3 billion. In 2023 alone, we delivered more than 270 million NTD treatments and provided over 46 thousand life-changing surgeries. The END Fund works globally in 31 countries, with a primary emphasis in Africa.

You can learn more about the END Fund here.

ABOUT THE END FUND’S PROGRAMS TEAM AND APPROACH TO MEASUREMENT,EVALUATION & LEARNING

The END Fund manages an NTD program investment portfolio with a total value of up to $55 million per year as of 2023. This granting portfolio is currently spread across more than 30 countries in Africa and Asia and is currently managed through four programmatic investment funds. It is essential and central to our work to use evidence for continuous improvement, and data to facilitate comprehensive fund performance analysis and evaluation of value for money, return on investment, and quality of practice.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The MEL department rigorously focuses on enhancing our evidence-based approach to grantmaking, innovation and learning. We build on the Programs team’s culture and systems of evidence generation to systematically measure the impact of our investments. The Senior Associate, MEL will work with the Senior Associate Director, MEL alongside the rest of the MEL team to improve the organization’s data management capabilities thus strengthening its ability to conduct cross-fund analyses, prepare detailed proposals for future investment, and better measure the impact that the organization is having on the NTD burden globally.

The Senior Associate, MEL will primarily be responsible for the provision of M&E support to a range of activities including supporting strengthening of internal M&E systems. This constitutes the management and analysis of district-level data shared by implementing partners, including ministries of health, the strengthening of data reporting processes in identifying recurring errors in data submissions, and coordination with the wider Programs Team to ensure the contextualisation of results and the application of learnings to routine/recurring program data flows.

Furthermore, the Senior Associate, MEL will be responsible for cross-departmental coordination during key reporting cycles, ensuring that verified data are reported in a timely, accurate and standardized manner.

This position constitutes a learning opportunity for the Senior Associate, MEL through which continuous support will be provided by the wider MEL team. The END Fund, and MEL team more specifically, fosters a learning environment in which the collective knowledge and expertise of team members is shared and leveraged to provide a platform through which staff can grow and evolve their area(s) of expertise. Simultaneously, it will be important for the Senior Associate, MEL to be able to work independently with minimal oversight.

This is an individual contributor position with no direct reports. This role is remote in nature, working as part of a distributed team that communicates regularly via Zoom and Slack with opportunities to connect with other team members in-person.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & CORE COMPETENCIES

Data management and analysis

• Conduct regular quantitative and qualitative data analyses on baselines, targets and performance to assess program impact, inform ongoing program implementation and contribute to organizational targets.
• Liaise regularly with Program colleagues to ensure M&E requirements are understood, completed, and submitted in a timely manner, and provide support to staff members to ensure high-quality data collection and reporting.
• Conduct internal data audits, with high attention to detail and with support from the wider MEL team to ensure the quality and standardisation of all data used by the END Fund to measure the impact of the organization.
• Propose and implement new analyses depending on project needs; identify methods to strengthen M&E processes.
• Review findings from data analysis and final reports developed by implementing partners to verify coherence and provide -programmatic recommendations, and conduct additional dataset analysis as required.
• Any other activities as requested by the Senior Associate Director, MEL

Conceptualization and development of MEL tools and activities

• Aid the development and maintenance of ad-hoc MEL tools to compile, analyse and report the fund’s data and progress, including epidemiological, coverage and impact survey data
• Contribute to the enhancement of systems and procedures for continuous functional improvement

Coordination and collaboration

• Coordinate review and submission of programmatic data for Board meeting materials on a quarterly basis working collaboratively with the Executive Office team as well as Strategy & Operations team.
• Ensure that cross-departmental coordination efforts result in the submission and eventual reporting of data metrics in a timely, accurate and standardized manner over time.
• Contribute to the learning environment fostered by the MEL team by disseminating best practices as they evolve.
• Correspond directly with implementing partners, as required by the program team
• Be willing to travel globally with a focus on Africa

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field is required
• Master’s Degree in a field related to public health, M&E, biostatics, epidemiology or another related discipline is desirable
• Experience in using Excel, R or other data analysis / statistical packages
• Experience in using DHIS2 or other data management solutions is desirable
• Proficiency in data cleaning, merging and analysis of programmatic datasets with varying architectures and from different data systems
• Ability to problem solve and develop innovative and automatable solutions to recurring challenges
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (French verbal and written skills would be desirable, but are not required)
• Strong organizational, time management, and analytical capabilities
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to work independently using own initiative
• Passion for and commitment to the END Fund's humanitarian mission

OUR PHILOSOPHY AND BENEFITS

The END Fund is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. It is our policy and intent that all qualified persons be given full and equal opportunities for employment, training, promotions, wages, benefits, and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment.

The END Fund is at an exciting stage of organizational growth and we are rapidly expanding our global footprint in order to bring on the most talented team members to help advance our mission. Currently, we have team members in 14 countries and the majority of our team is based in the United States. We maintain physical headquarters in New York City, and a new registered entity in Kenya, other team members work from their homes across the US, Africa, UK and Europe. All team members hired outside the US and Kenya are hired through an Employer of Record (EOR).

The END Fund offers a competitive compensation package intended to motivate employees to perform at the highest level by acquiring superior skills and competencies. Our philosophy is shaped by the following guidelines: 1) understandable, 2) fair and defensible, 3) competitive, and 4) flexible. The END Fund differentiates pay based on the basis of role definition, scope of responsibilities, relevant team member experience and geographic location. We endeavor to compensate team members so that they can live with a sense of economic security within their geographic location.

To ensure all compensation and benefits package offers are fair, defensible and competitive, the END Fund relies on external benchmarking data that is both role and country-specific.

This specific role is open to candidates who currently live and have the right to work in New York, US, London, UK and Nairobi, Kenya

• If based in the US the anticipated starting gross annual base salary range is USD $67,000-$71,000
• If based in the UK, the anticipated gross starting annual base salary range is GBP £48,000-£53,000
• If based in Kenya the anticipated gross starting annual base salary range is USD $53,000-$61,000

WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED

The END Fund does not sponsor work authorization or visas. All team members must independently have legal rights to work and live in the US, the UK or Kenya. Our benefits packages are also informed by local contexts to ensure appropriateness and competitiveness within specific markets. Regardless of location, all END Fund team members receive cell phone and WiFi connectivity support, flexible work arrangements, retirement plan, and paid time off. The END Fund also offers employer-paid health for team members and a cost-share option for dependents of team members, as well as life insurance benefits and twelve weeks fully paid family care leave; specific benefit providers will vary modestly by country of residency.

JOB POSTING: Senior Associate, Measurement, Evaluation & Learning (MEL)

LOCATION: Hybrid based in Nairobi, London or New York

REPORTS TO: Senior Associate Director, Measurement, Evaluation & Learning (MEL)

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: Up to 20%

JOB POSTING TIMELINE: This position will close at 11:59pm EST on February 05, 2025

SALARY RANGE: The END Fund differentiates pay based on the basis of role definition, scope of responsibilities, relevant team member experience and geographic location. Specific salary details for each location are noted above