Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager

At TechnoServe, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to build a better life. For over 50 years, we have given smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs the skills, connections, and confidence to lift themselves out of poverty. We leverage the power of markets and the private sector to create sustainable economic growth to benefit people and the planet. Our unique mix of business solutions, deep knowledge of local contexts, and data-driven insights is helping to fight poverty across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. TechnoServe staff are local–95% are from the countries in which they work. We put a high premium on collaboration and entrepreneurship. We hold ourselves and each other to the highest standards of integrity and transparency. And we focus on delivering lasting impact for our mission.

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager leads all of the project’s MEL activities and reporting. The MEL Manager is responsible for establishing the MEL framework, overseeing data analysis, and maintaining data integrity, ensuring alignment with TechnoServe’s Global Impact standards and practices. They will define the MEL calendar of activities, lead the project team in delivery, and ensure that clear learning objectives are defined and delivered. The MEL Manager is responsible for quarterly and annual data collection, storage and analysis, and quarterly and annual reporting on the project indicators.

Ube-GOLD (Ube–Growth, Opportunity, Livelihoods, and Development) is funded by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food for Progress Program and implemented by TechnoServe in the Philippines, with consortium partner 6th Grain. It is a five-year project from October 2026 through September 2031, with $15.65M in funding for implementation. The project responds to the widening gap between ube demand and supply. It increases agricultural productivity by commercializing market-preferred ube planting material and training farmers through the Ube Farm College to produce processor-grade ube, and it expands agricultural trade by strengthening aggregation, processing, and market linkages and mobilizing finance for farmers, nurseries, aggregators, and processors. By Year 5, Ube-GOLD aims to provide improved planting material to 12,750 smallholder farmers, train 10,560 farmers, strengthen 50 aggregators and 11 processors, and mobilize approximately $6.3 million in agricultural financing. Activities are concentrated in Northern Luzon, Southern Luzon/Calabarzon, and the Visayas (Leyte and Bohol).

• → Implement, maintain and refine a robust framework, methodology, and procedures for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) that align with TechnoServe’s Global Impact standards, the project’s logical framework and USDA reporting requirements.
• → Formulate and execute a plan that aligns USDA and TechnoServe accountability frameworks with the project’s impact goals, synthesizing project activities into broader objectives and ensuring compliance with national-level standards.
• → Lead collaboration with project partners, including 6th Grain, to align data and learning.
• → Oversee the deployment of the TechnoServe Impact Intelligence Platform (TIIP), including the creation of internal and external dashboards and data products to support informed decision-making by the project leadership team.
• → Coordinate with the MEL Senior Coordinators across office locations and the Data Specialist to collate, monitor, and update key metrics.
• → Coordinate with external evaluators and data collectors for the baseline, midterm, and endline evaluations and other planned studies.
• → Develop and disseminate progress reports, presentations, and graphical representations to internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment with TechnoServe global and country team needs.
• → Regularly visit project sites to support field teams with MEL training and capacity building, and orient new staff to MEL processes as required.
• → Uphold confidentiality standards for sensitive program data, and provide proactive compliance advice to optimize project delivery in accordance with TechnoServe’s policies and guidelines.
• → Work with TechnoServe’s Global Impact Team to identify and integrate corporate impact indicators into organizational reports, and ensure the project adopts global standards and contributes to best practices.
• → Manage and routinely audit project tracking databases to ensure data integrity and quality, and conduct ad-hoc data analyses and reports.
• → Facilitate the project’s developmental evaluation process, including quarterly reflection sessions that bring together monitoring data, qualitative findings, and frontline staff judgment to inform adaptive decisions, and document how those insights are captured and shared with the project team, TechnoServe’s Impact Team, and USDA.
• → Support global and country-level knowledge management assessments to refine data collection mechanisms and storage platforms, ensuring standardized data capture and access across project geographies.

•  Bachelor’s Degree + 7 years relevant experience OR Master’s Degree + 5 years relevant experience.
•  Experience managing MEL systems for agricultural value chains, especially ube, coconut, cashew, or other emerging niche products.
•  5 years of experience with MEL methods and approaches in an international development context, including designing, planning, and implementing MEL systems, analyzing, and reporting using a logical framework, and other strategic planning approaches.

•  Prior experience managing the donor reporting requirements of USDA Food for Progress or other USG-funded projects.

•  Analytical, writing, and management skills required for delivering MEL systems for development projects.
•  Ability to communicate complex data and issues with clarity, precision and prioritization.
•  Strong capacity building skills, including participatory facilitation techniques, coaching, and mentoring.
•  Ability to work diplomatically in a team-based environment with a high degree of complexity and ambiguity.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Small team of MEL and Data Specialists.

 We encourage all qualified individuals who share TechnoServe's vision of improving the lives of others through proven business solutions to apply.

With our commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and affirmative action employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, HIV/AIDS status, protected veteran status, disability and all other protected classes.

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Job Details: Candidates must possess valid, unrestricted work authorization for the Philippines. TechnoServe does not offer visa sponsorship for this role. The successful candidate will receive a local employment contract with compensation paid in Philippine pesos. Salary is competitive, aligned with local market rates, and commensurate with qualifications and internal equity.