Lake Tanganyika Basin MEL Lead

About this role

The Nature Conservancy is recruiting a Lake Tanganyika Basin Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Lead for its Irreplaceable Landscape strategy. The post-holder will design, operationalize, and refine a basin-wide MEL plan aligned with TNC Africa MEL standards, the Africa Unified and Standardized MEL Frameworks, and the program theory of change. Core responsibilities include coordinating MEL implementation with the basin team, implementing partners, and stakeholders in Tanzania, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burundi. The lead will improve data systems, standards, tools, and governance; conduct quality assurance; and produce performance analyses, dashboards, and reports by gender, youth, geography, and stakeholder group.

The role also involves leading quarterly reviews, annual pause and reflect workshops, baseline, midline, and endline assessments, learning studies, and structured reflection, and building MEL capacity among teams, partners, community institutions, and stakeholders. Required qualifications include a BA or BS degree and five years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, conservation or environmental science, natural resources, social science, statistics, data science, or a related field, plus six years of progressively responsible MEL or program performance management experience. Candidates must show strong MEL data analytics, results frameworks, indicator design, data quality assurance, evaluation methods, adaptive management, multi-partner coordination, cross-cultural communication, and report writing. Preferred qualifications include a master's degree, experience leading MEL for multi-country conservation or climate adaptation programs, mixed-methods design, and proficiency with Excel, KoboToolbox, Survey123, ArcGIS or QGIS, statistical software, and SMART.

TNC is a science-based global conservation organization with more than one million members and over 400 scientists. The position is full time and based in Kigoma, Tanzania, reporting to the Lake Tanganyika Basin Director and aligned with TNC Africa MEL. TNC offers competitive benefits tailored to the country, including health care, retirement, parental leave, paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, and employee assistance. Apply through TNC's Workday Jobs Hub by 6 November 2026.