Monitoring and Evaluation Manager at International Alert: (Deadline: 17 July 2026)

Job Description

International Alert

International Alert is over 30-year-old independent peacebuilding organisation. We work with people who are directly affected by violent conflict to improve their prospects of peace, and we seek to influence the policies and ways of working of governments, international organisations like the UN and multinational companies, to reduce conflict risk and increase the prospects of peace.

Job Purpose

The purpose of this position is to support the continued growth and consolidation of International Alert's national programmes in Rwanda and Burundi, while contributing to the effective implementation of cross-border regional programmes in the Great Lakes region. This is a local position, the holder will work across programme projects to provide technical support programme staff and implementing partners in monitoring, evaluating, research and learning from programme implementation. They will establish a clear and reliable result-based monitoring, evaluation and learning system for Alert’s projects implemented in Rwanda & Burundi. This will involve working closely with International Alert teams in Rwanda and Burundi, regional programme teams, and local partners to ensure high-quality data and support project teams in assessing programme outcomes and impact using participatory approaches. The successful candidate will have knowledge and experience of programme or project design and implementation, including monitoring and evaluation processes. The DMEAL will also input into Africa Programme wide initiatives such as supporting the implementing of the organisational impact plan and sharing lessons, tools, and approaches with other country teams across the organisation.

Duties and Responsibilities

1.Strategy Monitoring and Reporting

• Track progress against national and regional strategies using the established MEAL systems that provides information on progress being made on each of the indicators in the strategy
• Provide support in annual strategy reviews as part of the current strategy implementation plan.
•  Analyze and interpret monitoring data/information summarized in a useful manner to inform management decision making at national level
• Provide support in tracking the performance of the Rwanda and Burundi country strategies and their contribution to the Global Strategy, and support related reporting in collaboration with Programme/Project Managers.
• Provide guidance in the use of annual planning tools, ensuring that quality planning and budgeting documents are produced;
• Coordinate with the M&E Officer and M&E assistant to store data in both hard and soft form and disseminate appropriate information among respective partners.

2. Programme/Project Design

• Provide strategic technical leadership in the development and periodic review of country programme frameworks, ensuring alignment with International Alert's Global Strategy, country priorities, and regional objectives.
• Lead the integration of evidence, learning, conflict sensitivity, and MEAL considerations into programme and project design, ensuring interventions are grounded in robust analysis and contextual realities.
• Coordinate the work of MEAL staff across Rwanda, Burundi, and regional programmes to ensure strategic coherence, harmonised approaches, and consistent application of organisational standards.
• Ensure that community feedback, stakeholder engagement, research findings, and lessons learned systematically inform programme design, adaptive management, and decision-making.
• Contribute to the development of high-quality funding proposals by leading the design of MEAL frameworks, theories of change, indicators, learning agendas, and evidence-generation approaches.
• Advise programme teams on the development of logical frameworks, results frameworks, indicators, baselines, targets, and data collection methodologies to strengthen programme quality and evaluability.

3. Programme Monitoring Systems

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of robust MEAL systems, tools, and processes that strengthen programme quality, accountability, organisational learning, and evidence-based decision-making.
• Monitor programme and project performance against approved work plans, results frameworks, and key performance indicators, providing timely analysis and recommendations to support adaptive management and strategic decision-making.
• Lead regular Data Quality Assessments (DQAs) and ensure the accuracy, completeness, reliability, integrity, and timeliness of programme data, overseeing corrective actions where required.
• Ensure timely collection, analysis, dissemination, and use of monitoring data—including through organisational systems such as Horizon and monthly performance tracking tools—to inform programme management, corporate reporting, and strategic decision-making.
• Lead the preparation, quality assurance, and timely submission of high-quality internal and external reports, including donor reports, evaluation reports, annual reports, action plans, and other organisational or statutory reporting requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and capacity building to programme teams and implementing partners on data management, monitoring methodologies, analysis, evaluation, and the effective use of evidence to improve programme performance and demonstrate impact.
• Strengthen accountability and learning by ensuring that community feedback, partner engagement, and monitoring findings are systematically integrated into programme implementation, reporting, and continuous improvement.
• Promote the integration of cross-cutting organisational priorities into programme monitoring, reporting, and learning processes.

4. Research and Evaluation

• Coordinate and support the planning for project/programme baselines, evaluations, research, and special studies;
• Coordinate assessment, research and/or evaluation findings are actively communicated to key stakeholders.
• Generate evidence of project and programme impact for policy makers, donors, government officials and other stakeholders to demonstrate impact and accountability

Travel requirements

The position is preferably based in Kigali, Rwanda, but may also be based in Bujumbura, Burundi. It requires regular travel within Rwanda and Burundi, as well as occasional travel across the Great Lakes region and internationally, as required. All travel will be subject to organisational security assessments and prevailing security conditions.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

Talents

At Alert, we have introduced Talent Management to our business model as we believe talented people are crucial to the success of our work. We believe all individuals are talented and that success comes in matching the right talents to the right roles.

For this role, the skills, qualifications and experience listed below are important, but we believe that to be great in this job you are likely, first and foremost, to have a talent for analytical thinking and persuasive communication, balanced with a constructive and collegial personal working style that can advance Alert’s goals of coalition-building and promoting peaceful outcomes in Rwanda. This is what we will be looking for above all else.

Qualification

• Master’s degree in a relevant field, preferably development studies, peace studies and conflict transformation, sociology, anthropology, genocide prevention studies, conflict management, rural development, data science, or demography. Candidates with a bachelor’s degree in one of these fields and at least 10 years of relevant experience are also eligible to apply.
• At least 8 years of experience in project monitoring and evaluation within NGO settings.
• Specific experience of field-based data collection inclusive of use of digital surveying and analysis experience using both quantitative and qualitative data, and primary and secondary data sources;
• Collaborative working style that enables coaching and training in M&E principles and best-practices;
• Experience conducting participatory research or participatory M and E, including using tools such as focus group discussions, case study interviews and outcome harvest approach;
• Demonstrated capacity to coordinate evaluations, including experience developing evaluation terms of reference and recruiting and managing consultants;
• An eye for detail and accuracy and an ability to balance competing demands
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, Pivot Tables, Access, KOBO, as well as web browsers;
• Knowledge or demonstrable interest in peacebuilding;
• Ability to be creative and innovative in generating new ideas and undertaking research;
• Committed to International Alert organisational values and goals;
• Excellent written and spoken English, French and Kinyarwanda or Kirundi as well as basic knowledge of Swahili– demonstrable ability to analyse and present a cogent argument both in writing and orally;
• Excellent communication skills;
• A collaborative team player, willing to lend a hand and go the extra mile
• A self-starter with initiative and the ability to work with minimal supervision

Each application should consist only of the following documents:

• A Completed application form(attached)

The application form should be sent by email only no later than 17 July 2026 to Rwanda@international-alert.org . Please mention the following reference in the subject heading of your email: Application for DMEAL Manager position.

Please note that the following:

• This is a local position (Rwanda or Burundi).
• If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, you can assume that your application has on this occasion, been “unsuccessful.”
• Alert is a member of the MDS scheme; and by applying for this role, you agree to undergo MDS checks.