Monitoring & Evaluation Manager

Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Manager

Reports to: Senior Director of Monitoring & Evaluation
Status: Contractor

Location: Nairobi, Kenya; Pretoria, South Africa; or Remote Home Office (Africa)
Foundation Overview:

The Max Foundation is a leading global health nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating health equity. For more than 28 years, Max has pioneered practical, scalable, high-quality solutions to bring life-extending treatments and patient-centered health care to more than 100,000 people living with cancer and critical illness in low- and middle-income countries. Max believes in a world where all people can access high-impact medicines, where geography is not destiny, and where everyone can strive for health with dignity and with hope. Learn more at www.themaxfoundation.org.
Role Summary:

The Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, reporting to the Senior Director of Monitoring & Evaluation, will be a key member of The Max Foundation ’s growing M&E function, supporting impact measurement, evidence generation, and technical project management across Max’s global health programs. This role will provide strong technical project management across Max’s M&E and evidence-generation portfolio, ensuring that complex projects are well organized, timely, accurate, and aligned with organizational priorities.

The Monitoring & Evaluation Manger will also help develop and manage project plans, budgets, timelines, deliverables, submissions, consultants, vendors, and cross-functional workstreams and will also include technical contributions to project design, data analysis and visualization, technical writing, proposal development, and synthesis of findings for diverse audiences.
Responsibilities:

- Provide project management support for M&E and evidence-generation projects, including workplans, timelines, deliverables, meetings, decision tracking, and follow-up

- Contribute to technical concept notes, proposals, and budget development, including scopes of work, resource needs, consultant/vendor costs, project expenses, and invoice tracking

- Coordinate cross-functional collaboration with internal teams, external consultants, vendors, and technical experts to advance M&E and evidence generation priorities

- Support management of consultants and vendors, including scopes of work, timelines, deliverables, invoices, and communications

- Coordinate abstract, conference, publication, regulatory, ethics, and institutional submissions, including tracking requirements, documentation, approvals, and deadlines

- Maintain organized project records, submission files, reporting trackers, datasets, budgets, and other M&E documentation

- Support the development and refinement of M&E frameworks, indicators, tools, and reporting processes in alignment with organizational strategy and impact measurement priorities

- Contribute to the design and implementation of evaluation and evidence-generation activities, including assessments, surveys, methodologies, tools, and data collection instruments

- Manage data collection, extraction, and analysis across programs to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities related to program reach, patient outcomes, and health system impact

- Contribute to M&E reports, grant proposals, partner reports, abstracts, manuscripts, presentations, and other evidence-based materials

- Develop data visualizations, dashboards, charts, infographics, and summaries that make findings clear, compelling, and accessible to diverse audiences

- Support the development of plain-language summaries, evidence briefs, publication summaries, and other materials that translate findings for non-technical audiences

- Coordinate translation of M&E documents for global audiences, working with internal teams or external translation support as needed

- Conduct literature reviews and background research to support abstracts, manuscripts, proposals, reports, and evidence briefs

- Work with cross-functional teams to understand data