Banyan Global is an international development consulting firm headquartered in Washington, DC with staff working across the globe. Banyan Global operates seamlessly within five practice areas: economic growth and finance, gender, health, youth, and evaluation and learning.

Banyan Global is recruiting a Pakistani MEL Manager to support an anticipated five-year USAID-funded Pakistan project focused on women-led businesses, access to capital, and entrepreneurship. The MEL Manager will support a range of activities related to performance monitoring, assessments and studies, learning, and capacity strengthening. The position is full-time, based in Islamabad, Pakistan.

• Build high quality monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning system for the project.
• Design and implement annual outcome-level performance monitoring; baseline data collection; sector, geographic, and needs assessments; and topical and geographic research (including contextual analytics) related to advancing women’s participation in Pakistan’s economy, specifically women-led businesses, access to capital, business development services (BDS); entrepreneurship; policy reform, social norms, and the gender digital divide.
• Ensure high quality throughout monitoring, evaluation and research activities including the design of activities, development of qualitative and quantitative data collection instruments, data analysis, and the presentation of findings.
• Provide technical assistance to project staff and its implementing partners to identify appropriate performance and context indicators and standardize definitions and norms for common reporting across diverse partners and sectors.
• Conduct supplementary analysis of existing USAID, academic, or government source data.
• Support MEL training, workshops, capacity building events and related initiatives for project staff and implementing partners.
• Other related duties as assigned.

• A master’s degree or higher in a relevant field such as monitoring and evaluation, data science, statistics, development studies/affairs, and social sciences.
• At least five years of experience working in MEL, preferably on USAID or other donor-funded awards in Pakistan.
• Professional experience involving issues related to women-led businesses, access to capital, business development services, entrepreneurship, policy reform, social norms, and the gender digital divide.
• Familiarity with quantitative and qualitative data analysis software packages.
• Demonstrated familiarity with ADS 201.

Banyan Global is an equal opportunity employer. Please apply to the position through our website, https://banyanglobal.com/careers/