Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Manager

Application deadline: Sunday 19 July 2026 – 23:59
Location: Dakar, Senegal

Full-time : 40 hours per week
Contract: 2 years fixed-term, renewable

Salary: EURO 43,200 per year

Date when the job expected to start: 1st August 2026

BirdLife International is the world’s largest nature conservation partnership. Through our unique local-to-global approach, we deliver high impact and long-term conservation for the benefit of nature and people.

We are looking for a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Manager to lead the development of MEAL across the BirdLife Africa Regions.

In this role you will contribute to BirdLife’s work by ensuring the region’s projects deliver measurable conservation impact, maintain the highest standards of accountability to communities and donors, and foster a culture of adaptive management and learning across the BirdLife Partnership

How you will do this

MEAL Leadership and Coordination

• Lead and strengthen regional MEAL frameworks and systems across BirdLife Africa, aligned with organisational strategy and donor requirements.
• Integrate MEAL into programme design, delivery, and proposal development.
• Oversee digital MEAL platforms, manage consultants, coordinate working groups, and represent BirdLife in external forums.

Data, Analysis and Reporting

• Establish systems and empower project teams to collect, analyse, and interpret data to assess the effectiveness and impacts of Selected BirdLife Africa projects.
• Ensure data quality, accountability, and effective communication of insights.
• Quality Assurance and Accountability
• Lead MEAL planning, implementation, and evaluations across regional and multi-country programmes.
• Oversee donor reporting, stakeholder feedback mechanisms, safeguarding, and compliance standards.

Learning and Impact

• Drive organisational learning, adaptive management, and evidence generation to improve programme outcomes.
• Develop learning products, impact reports, and innovative approaches to MEAL.
• Capacity Strengthening and Partnerships
• Build long-term MEAL capability across BirdLife and Partners through mentoring, technical support, and communities of practice.

Resource Mobilisation

• Support funding proposals through development of Theories of Change, logframes, MEAL budgets, and donor measurement approaches.

What we are looking for:

To be successful in this role you’ll need to be an experienced and strategic MEAL professional with a strong track record of designing and delivering MEAL frameworks in conservation, biodiversity, climate, natural resource management, or related sectors, including substantial experience in a regional or managerial role. You will bring expertise in multi-country MEAL systems, Results-Based Management (RBM), logframes, and Theory of Change development, with strong knowledge of donor requirements (e.g. GEF, IKI).

You will be confident using digital data collection, analysis, and visualisation tools (e.g. Kobo, ODK, SPSS, Stata, R, Python, Power BI, Tableau), and experienced in impact evaluations and data governance, including privacy and safeguarding standards.

We are seeking a collaborative leader who can influence and build strong partnerships across donors, governments, and partners, manage budgets and consultants, and communicate complex data clearly to diverse audiences. Strong analytical skills and a practical, solutions-focused approach are essential.

See the full job description here.

Salary & benefits:

Commensurate with experience and qualifications and in accordance with BirdLife International, Africa Division terms and conditions.

BirdLife values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Find out more about our Diversity statement.

We are committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and supportive culture, a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We aim to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity.

We will consider putting into place appropriate reasonable adjustments for candidates who may have a disability.

Interviews will be held during the week of 3 August 2026.