Senior MEL Advisor, Data Systems and Analytics

About the role

Prosper Global, a humanitarian organization, is hiring a Senior MEL Advisor, Data Systems and Analytics for its Technical Support, Evidence and Program Quality (TEQ) unit within Programs. The role sits in the MEL team, works under the Director of Measurement, Strategy and Program Performance and focuses on organizational performance indicators (OPIs), organizational outcome measurement (OOM) and MEL program support. It is based in the UK or Europe (Netherlands, France, Belgium, Switzerland) and involves up to 10% travel.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead the OPI working group: refine OPIs, set data collection cycles, align data protocols, write standard operating procedures and promote integration across technology platforms.
• Act as the main authority on OPIs, advising country and regional teams and integrating OPIs into strategic workplans, while overseeing standardization of measurement units and reporting schedules.
• Produce ad-hoc reports for senior leaders and strengthen data literacy on OPIs across the organization.
• Collect, analyze and report progress against OPIs, design the framework for their systematic collection, analysis and reporting, and lead the development of a data infrastructure to automate ingestion into Fabric and visualization in Power BI.
• Analyze programmatic data reported through TolaData, create dashboards for country and regional users, support OOM report writing and the annual Mapping Our Reach participant count analysis.
• Support the rollout of the MEL Tech suite, work with IT, MEL and Finance on data integration, and co-lead the Generative AI and data integration workstream.
• Provide training and capacity building in data management, visualization and value for money (VfM).

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in international development, social science, MEL, data analysis or a related field (equivalent hands-on experience accepted).
• At least 7 years of experience aggregating and reporting data across programs or for agency-level indicator measurement, including ESG measurement; experience with Balance Scorecards and ESG reporting highly preferred.
• Deep knowledge of data management, including standardization, cleaning, analysis and reporting.
• Knowledge of English required; French, Arabic or Spanish preferred.

Required skills

• Advanced Power BI, including DAX and M scripts.
• Interactive dashboards and data visualization, with experience cleaning, modeling and visualizing large data sets.
• Preferred: data engineering, data structures, data models, mobile data collection platforms, data automation, Microsoft Azure and SQL.

Salary: UK £60,030; Netherlands and other EU countries €70,920, commensurate with experience. Applications close on 10 November.