Senior MEAL Manager

Every year, millions die from preventable diseases because vital services do not reach them. A root cause is broken data: missing or unreliable IDs, fragmented records, and inflated reporting. Without accurate data on who receives services, governments and NGOs cannot deliver care effectively, track impact, or target life-saving resources.

Simprints is a nonprofit tech company that partners with ministries and funders to verify identities, digitise workflows, and enable evidence-based decisions so the right services reach the right people at the right time. We co-design end-to-end digital solutions with the people who use them, from the frontlines to national dashboards. Our biometric products integrate with health records to drive accuracy, accountability, and insights. Studies have shown that Simprints increases impact through real-time, precision data, for example, increasing maternal health visits by 38% in Bangladesh or accurate HIV tracing by 62% in Malawi. To date, we’ve worked in over 18 countries, helping deliver health, aid, and finance to over 4 million people. Our mission is simple: make sure every vaccine, every dollar, and every public good reaches the people who need them most.

The MEAL Manager will enable our Delivery team to roll out highly effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning systems across our project portfolio, translating programmatic and operational data into clear evidence of our impact and effectiveness. As Simprints sharpens its global strategy to drive coverage improvements of critical health services, this role ensures we possess a rock-solid evidence base to back up our solution and drive adaptive project management on the ground.

You will sit at the intersection of traditional monitoring and evaluation, data science, global health and technology. One day you might be facilitating a workshop to help a project team to better understand trends in technology adoption; the next, designing qualitative research to explore how community health workers in Ghana perceive biometric tech; and the next, collaborating with our data science team to build intuitive monitoring dashboards.

This is a hands-on role for a rigorous M&E professional who loves turning technical data sets into compelling, human-centric narratives and is a skilled cross-team collaborator. You will bridge the gap between technical results and frontline execution, reinforcing an organizational culture that prioritises data integrity, continuous learning, and absolute accountability to the frontline workers and communities we serve.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, roll out, and scale project-level MEAL systems.
• Lead the development and oversee the end-to-end execution of MEAL frameworks (ToC, M&E plan, data collection, analysis and reporting) across all Simprints projects, ensuring alignment of internal stakeholder and funder requirements with operational realities.
• Line manage, support and mentor a small team of talented M&E Officers in Ghana and Ethiopia, ensuring project level M&E is carried to the highest levels of technical rigour.
• Foster deep, cross-functional collaboration with Data Scientists, Project Managers, and Product Managers so that project-level metrics are aligned and supported at every tier of the organization.
• Conduct technical field visits to project sites to provide direct technical MEAL backstopping to local implementation teams.
• Support the Head of MEI in mapping project outcomes back to Simprints' strategy and global organizational impact framework.
• Provide rigorous technical oversight across all MEAL processes.
• Develop robust methodology and research designs for both internal and external (consultant-led) evaluations suitable for rigorous external dissemination.
• Design, test, and deploy data collection tools that capture both quantitative metrics and qualitative insights (e.g., end-user perceptions, usability, and trust).
• Conduct comprehensive quantitative and qualitative analyses on complex datasets, extracting clear patterns and actionable conclusions.
• Partner with data scientists to co-develop automated monitoring dashboards with intuitive data visualizations.
• End to end management of project evaluations, including tendering, selection, and management of consultants for external evaluations.
• Provide timely information to project managers and Partnerships colleagues to support donor updates and reporting.
• Embed learning mechanisms for adaptive project management.
• Lead project-level learning reviews with internal and external stakeholders, championing the use of real-time MEAL data to pivot operations and improve delivery metrics.
• Translate highly technical and statistical results into clear, concise, and non-technical monitoring and learning reports accessible to donors, ministries, and partners.
• Support the Head of MEI to update and maintain Simprints internal evidence library of key learnings, evaluations, and case studies to directly support future project design, proposal development and advocacy efforts.
• Champion ethical and responsible data practices.
• Act as an internal champion for ethical, responsible, and privacy-first data collection and data management strategies across all operations.

Skills and Experience

• A minimum of 5 years of experience working in monitoring and evaluation within the Tech4Dev, global health, or broader international development sectors.
• Proven track record designing, setting up, and managing comprehensive MEAL systems from scratch, including developing Theory of Change (ToC) models, M&E frameworks, and data collection tools.
• Well-versed in different types of outcome measurement methodologies.
• Experienced in commissioning evaluations and engaging with research and academic institutions.
• Experience with cost-effectiveness measures or value for money (VfM) assessments desirable.
• Proven ability to conduct rigorous quantitative and qualitative data analysis on complex datasets to extract actionable insights.
• Excellent facilitation skills for training and workshop delivery (face to face and online).
• Superb communication skills and proven ability to translate complex statistical, or technical reports into clear insights to Project Managers, Partnerships, and Communications colleagues.
• Excellent multitasking habits, comfortable tracking deliverables across multiple overlapping, fast-moving international projects simultaneously.
• Experience leveraging AI tools across the monitoring and evaluation cycle is an advantage.

How we work

• We confront the grey. We practise transparency and radical candour, listen deeply, share information openly, and speak up when our ethical compass is challenged, so that psychological safety is real and everyone can do their best work.
• We leave our egos at the door. We bring curiosity, kindness, and a positive attitude, seek first to understand, and remember to laugh together.
• We find a way. We plan with clear strategies, deliverables, deadlines, and metrics, step out of our comfort zones, and make it happen.
• We remember why we are here. Impact for people comes first. We act like owners, hold ourselves to high standards, and work across teams to close data gaps and increase coverage.
• We celebrate the differences. We treat every person with compassion, empathy, and respect, build inclusive spaces where diverse perspectives are welcomed.

Benefits

• Genuine Impact. Work directly with our partners and users to deliver technology that has the potential to impact millions of lives across the globe.
• An incredible, diverse team. Our work is at the intersection of technology and global development.
• Mutual Flex. We champion a work culture where autonomy and trust are paramount.
• Ultimate work-life balance. We offer a 4-day workweek and unlimited annual leave.
• Professional development. We promote continual learning and have a generous professional development budget for each colleague.