Reporting to the Country Director, the Lead, Program Planning and Monitoring will provide leadership, guidance, and technical support to the Country program team on planning and monitoring. You will coordinate program and portfolio planning to align with the country/regional strategic agenda, develop and implement investment tracking systems and monitoring frameworks, and manage tasks and processes to monitor progress on key indicators.

Coordinate strategic planning to align with the Foundation’s mission and national priorities, developing strategic plans using diagnostics and analysis.
Lead strategy development processes, including root cause analyses and target setting.
Manage program and portfolio planning with integrated programming processes and partnership mechanisms. Contribute to project design, including theories of change and implementation plans.
Develop and implement monitoring standards and systems, strengthening partner-level M&E systems by aligning theories of change and implementing reporting processes.
Build stakeholder relationships to provide guidance and support. Monitor KPIs and develop additional indicators to enhance impact.
Provide strategic guidance for partner-level M&E plans, collaborate on monitoring requirements for MOUs, and support data collection, report writing, and documenting good practices.
Lead data management, including recording, analyzing, and interpreting partner monitoring data. Advise on monitoring issues and program quality assurance.
Develop learning mechanisms, conduct capacity assessments, support Monitoring Evaluation & Learning (MEL) capabilities, and participate in cross-functional initiatives.
Manage the Program Planning and Monitoring team, including performance and staff development.
Represent the team at internal and external events on monitoring and learning.