Jobs at The Max Foundation (Now Hiring) — 2 open

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 and evidence needs and promote consistent use of M&E findings, publications, and other evidence-based materials

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, global health, epidemiology, social sciences, health economics, statistics, international development, data science, or a related field required; Master’s degree preferred
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in monitoring and evaluation, impact measurement, global health, public health research, program evaluation, project management, or research project coordination
• Experience managing complex projects or cross-functional workstreams with internal teams, consultants, vendors, and external partners
• Experience supporting technical concept notes, proposal development, project budgets, scopes of work, and cross-functional project planning
• Experience supporting M&E frameworks, indicators, data collection systems, reporting, evaluations, or evidence-generation projects
• Experience or familiarity with quantitative and qualitative data methods, including managing, analyzing, and interpreting program data, surveys, interviews, case studies, or thematic analysis
• Experience or familiarity with evaluation tools, survey design, data collection instruments, analysis plans, and methods documentation
• Experience coordinating abstracts, publications, and conference submissions.
• Familiarity with regulatory, ethics, IRB, or institutional submissions related to research, evaluation, or publication activities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel required; experience with SPSS, REDCap, SurveyMonkey, or other data and visualization tools preferred
• Ability to translate data into clear insights, findings, visuals, and recommendations for non-technical audiences
• Experience working in global health, access to medicines, oncology, health systems strengthening, or LMIC-focused programs preferred
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills; fluency in French, Spanish, or another language a plus

Skills and Attributes:

• Passionate about The Max Foundation’s mission and committed to using data and evidence to accelerate health equity
• Experience and interest in impact measurement and evidence generation in global health
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and committed to accuracy and data integrity
• Strong project manager who can keep complex, multi-stakeholder projects moving forward
• Analytical thinker who can identify trends, gaps, and opportunities in program data
• Clear communicator who can translate data and evidence into practical insights, visuals, and recommendations for different audiences
• Able to work responsibly with sensitive or confidential program and patient-related data.
• Collaborative and flexible, with the ability to work effectively across teams, countries, time zones, consultants, vendors, and external partners
• Self-starter who takes ownership of tasks and follows through with minimal supervision
• Comfortable managing competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Culturally aware and comfortable working with international teams and diverse populations
• Mission-driven and committed to Max’s organizational values and guiding principles

Compensation: We offer compensation commensurate with experience. No relocation provided.

To Apply: Visit our website at https://www.themaxfoundation.org/careers to apply. Please include résumé and cover letter.

The Max Foundation is dedicated to diversity in staff and is an equal opportunity employer.