Position:Director, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL)

Reports To:AVP, Strategic Initiatives

Location:India, Nepal, Ghana, Ethiopia, or US

Position Type:Full-time

Location Requirement:

We are a global organization with a mix of remote, field-based, and in-office staff. This role is remote and can be based in India, Nepal, Ghana, Ethiopia or the United States. For U.S.-based candidates, at this timewe will only consider candidates who reside in the following stateswhere we are currently registered for employment:

California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington

ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE:

1. For more than 43 million people, blindness is a daily reality; another 295 million suffer from moderate to severe vision impairment. 90% of these people live in low- and middle-income countries where access to eye care is limited and the challenges for those who cant see are severe. But there is hope: 80% of this burden is treatable or preventable. For example, 17 million blind people could be cured with a 10-minute cataract surgery. Millions more suffer from corneal blindness, which is often preventable or treatable. At the Cure Blindness Project, we believe avoidable blindness can and must be overcome. For more than 30 years, we have worked alongside a capable network of collaborators to help people around the world retain and regain their sight by developing high-quality, cost-effective eye care systems in underserved areas of the world. With the help of partners in more than 30 countries, Cure Blindness Project has provided more than 1.6 million sight-restoring surgeries and screened more than 5 million people to provide care and basic treatments. Weve trained more than 20,100 eye health professionals and have established 5 eye hospitals. There is more work left to do, but we can overcome the mountain of global blindness together. Cure Blindness Project is expanding its team to meet new challenges, scale its work, and broaden its reach. We are seeking individuals who are passionate about changing lives and want to be a part of a team that works together to reach new heights. We want leaders who can aim high, make things happen, and are invested in building a positive team dynamic to bring the work to life.

VISION:A world where no one is needlessly blind

MISSION:We enable countries to cure avoidable blindness by developing high quality, cost-effective eye care in underserved areas of the world.

SCOPE OF WORK:

The Global MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning) Director will lead the design, implementation, and management of Cure Blindness Project MEL systems, focusing on data-driven impact measurement, learning, and adaptation for programs in diverse regions. Key responsibilities include developing MEL frameworks, overseeing data collection/analysis, ensuring data quality, building partner capacity, driving stakeholder engagement, and reporting on outcomes to donors and leadership to inform strategy and demonstrate effectiveness.

Reporting to the AVP of Strategic Initiatives, the Global MEL Director will lead the overall learning agenda of Cure Blindness Projects programmatic efforts, working closely with country staff, partners and other internal and external stakeholders. The MEL Director will be responsible for overseeing the rollout of Salesforce by ensuring all dashboards are capturing the necessary data to make informed programmatic decisions.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Strategy & Leadership:

• Set Global MEL Strategy and communicate this strategy on a regular basis to both internal and external stakeholders while overseeing the implementation in conjunction with global and regional program teams. Serve as budget lead for MEL program.
• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for all MEL activities, in alignment with the organizations’ strategic plan and funder requirements.
• Lead efforts to demonstrate impact beyond outputs by measuring outcomes and attributing change to Cure Blindness Project’s interventions, strengthening donor accountability, board reporting, and organizational credibility.
• Serve as steward of the organization’s theory of change, ensuring programs are designed with clear causal logic and that this logic is regularly tested and refined based on evidence.
• Collaborate with marketing department to strategically amplify key learning or results to bolster Cure Blindness Projects position as a thought leader
• Spearhead Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) processes to integrate evidence into program design and improve effectiveness.
• Stay abreast of current research and literature in the …