Managing Director, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning

Position Title: Managing Director, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

Department: Office of the COO

Location: Washington, DC - Hybrid

Contact: Corus International, humanresources@corusinternational.org

Salary Range: $148,000 - $185,000 - $222,000

Corus International provides a competitive, growth-oriented, yet fiscally responsible compensation program. When determining an offer for employment, multiple factors are considered including relevant years of experience, education, skills, internal equity, and budget. Our overall approach is to target the minimum to midpoint for starting salaries, based on these factors.

Additionally, Corus provides a comprehensive and competitive employee benefit package to protect our valued and dedicated staff and their families. Our benefits include three medical plan options with comprehensive prescription drug coverage, low-cost dental coverage with 100% paid vision insurance. Corus also provides a generous retirement plan and PTO to include vacation, sick, holiday, parental, jury, international travel, and bereavement leave; employer-sponsored basic life/AD&D insurance; employee wellness incentives, and employee work/life balance and assistance programs.

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Senior Managing Director in the Office of the COO, the Managing Director, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MD, MERL) serves as both a hands-on leader and strategic visionary, integrating best practices in monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning. The MD, MERL assumes full responsibility and authority in all aspects of the portfolio and, with limited oversight from the Senior Managing Director, works independently to achieve a defined set of qualitative and quantitative objectives and targets for their area. As a member of the Corus Leadership Team, the MD MERL directly contributes to the organization's ability to demonstrate impact of its diversified revenue models, types of programs, business-minded solutions, and public and private partnerships.

Additionally, the MD serves as Corus' chief quality control officer for MERL, partnering with Managing Directors from other business units to uphold program quality. This role collaborates with colleagues across the organization to ensure Corus is measuring what matters and enabling the organization and its supporters to understand and communicate its impact with clarity and confidence.

Responsibilities:

Capturing the Impact of Corus' Program Growth and Impact Strategy

In close collaboration with business units, the MD, MERL:

• Drives the execution of an organization-wide program impact measurement framework aligned to Corus' Strategy, ensuring alignment and clarity for data collection and analysis systems, roles, and tools to effectively capture and report on key metrics.
• Promotes the organization's growth strategy, ensuring that programs include clear MERL goals, targets, and metrics to measure the success and impact of Corus' programs and initiatives.
• Strengthens MERL and digital data management, and guides change management processes related to MERL and data use, including harmonization of technical strategies across business units and alignment with country and global policies.
• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with partner governments, donors, private sector partners, and other external stakeholders to enhance Corus' visibility and engagement in the MERL space.
• Regularly attends key meetings, conferences, and events, promoting the organization's mission and building partnerships.
• Fosters active engagement and inspires the enthusiastic participation of country teams in the organization's external media relations initiatives, encompassing diverse platforms such as media interviews, writing, and external speaking engagements.
• Supports business development efforts, identifying and pursuing new funding opportunities, partnerships, and revenue streams to support Corus' growth and sustainability.
• Contributes to consistent and impactful messaging across all communication channels and materials.
• Monitors and evaluates progress against targets for their specific portfolio regularly, making necessary adjustments to ensure alignment with the organizational strategy.
• Manages MERL level of effort allocations across projects, ensuring assistance costs are appropriately charged to project or MD budgets to optimize cost recovery and the use of unrestricted funds.

Leadership

• As a member of the Corus Leadership Team, contributes to the overall strategic direction, high-level decision making, growth, and success of the organization.
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