The Advisor, MEAL, Impact and Gender Equality is an organization-wide technical role responsible for strengthening Operation Eyesight Canada’s monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, impact measurement, and gender equality practice across international programs. Based in Canada, the Advisor supports OE Canada, Country Offices, local partners, health facilities, community structures, and, where relevant, Ministries of Health to design, monitor, evaluate, report on, and learn from programs that strengthen sustainable eye health systems.
The role supports the full project cycle, from strategy and proposal design through implementation, donor reporting, evaluation, organizational learning, and annual impact reporting. The Advisor leads the development and consistent use of practical MEAL systems, standard indicators, data quality processes, templates, tools, dashboards, reporting calendars, and learning products so that OE has credible, comparable, timely, and decision-useful evidence of results across countries, projects, partners, and programs.
This position is also central to OE’s gender equality and inclusion work. It requires strong experience in gender analysis, gender-responsive and gender-transformative programming, FIAP-aligned proposal design for Global Affairs Canada, sex-, age-, disability-, and contextually relevant disaggregated data, safeguarding linkages, partner capacity strengthening, and practical approaches that help teams use evidence to improve program quality and impact.
The Advisor will work closely with program, country office, institutional funding, finance, advancement, communications, and leadership colleagues to ensure that proposals, logframes, PMFs, donor reports, annual impact reporting, learning products, and public communications are grounded in verified evidence and aligned with donor expectations.
· Lead the development, strengthening, and roll-out of OE’s organizational MEAL architecture, including standard indicators, data collection tools, reporting templates, dashboards, data quality protocols, and learning processes across international programs.
· Develop and maintain practical systems to capture project, country, partner, and organizational impact data, ensuring OE can demonstrate results to donors, boards, staff, partners, communities, and the public.
· Create and maintain standard templates and guidance for needs assessments, baselines, routine monitoring, outcome monitoring, beneficiary feedback, post-training follow-up, evaluation terms of reference, learning reviews, and annual results reporting.
· Support the use of Management Information Systems and other digital or paper-based data systems in Country Offices, ensuring that data collection approaches are realistic for local teams, partners, health facilities, and community-level actors.
· Strengthen data governance, ethical data collection, data protection, data verification, and quality assurance processes across OE-supported programs.
· Analyze quantitative and qualitative data and translate evidence into clear findings, lessons, recommendations, and decision-making inputs for program teams, senior management, the Board, donors, and communications colleagues.
· Provide technical leadership and hands-on support for theories of change, logic models, logframes, performance measurement frameworks, results frameworks, indicators, baselines, targets, data sources, assumptions, and risk monitoring for proposals developed in Canada and by Country Offices.
· Ensure proposals are designed with strong results logic, clear outcome pathways, realistic indicators, credible monitoring approaches, and gender-responsive measurement strategies.
· Support proposal teams to meet Global Affairs Canada requirements for results-based management, PMFs, FIAP-aligned gender integration, and donor-specific reporting expectations.
· Support proposal development for other institutional donors such as the European Union, FCDO, UN agencies, foundations, and other bilateral or multilateral donors, adapting MEAL and gender sections to donor-specific formats and expectations.
· Work closely with program, finance, Country Office, and institutional funding colleagues to ensure MEAL activities, evaluations, gender activities, data systems, and learning processes are adequately reflected in workplans and budgets.
· Provide technical support, coaching, and training to Country Office staff, local partners, health facilities, and, where relevant, Ministries of Health on MEAL systems, data collection, reporting, gender equality integration, and use of evidence for decision-making.
· Develop practical tools and templates that can be used by local partners, hospitals, community health workers, outreach teams, schools, and public health actors to monitor eye health programming and system strengthening results.
· Support Country Offices to establish clear roles, responsibilities, timelines, and reporting flows for project-level and country-level data collection, verification, analysis, and use.
· Build staff and partner capacity in results-based management, indicator tracking, gender-responsive monitoring, ethical data collection, qualitative methods, data visualization, and donor reporting.
· Facilitate cross-country learning and exchange on effective approaches, implementation challenges, results, gender integration, and evidence-based program improvement.
· Lead the development, implementation, and periodic review of OE’s gender equality approach and support integration of gender equality into organizational strategies, country strategies, project designs, monitoring systems, reporting, and learning products.
· Conduct or support gender analyses, intersectional analyses, gender equality strategies, and gender-responsive program design for proposals and ongoing programs.
· Ensure Global Affairs Canada proposals and reports reflect strong FIAP-aligned gender analysis, credible gender equality outcomes, practical gender-responsive activities, measurable indicators, and realistic strategies for addressing barriers faced by women, girls, persons with disabilities, and marginalized groups.
· Strengthen the collection, analysis, and use of sex-, age-, disability-, and other contextually relevant disaggregated data to inform program design, adaptive management, reporting, advocacy, and communications.
· Develop tools and guidance for gender-sensitive and gender-transformative monitoring, reporting, staff training, partner capacity building, and learning.
· Support safeguarding, protection, accountability, and inclusive participation approaches within programming, in collaboration with relevant OE staff and partners.
· Review project, donor, partner, and Country Office reports to ensure results are accurate, evidence-based, gender-responsive, and aligned with approved logframes, PMFs, workplans, budgets, and donor requirements.
· Work closely with the Program Manager, Director of International Programs, Country Offices, and institutional funding colleagues to strengthen the quality, consistency, and timeliness of donor reports and internal program updates.
· Lead the annual organizational impact data collection and verification process, ensuring OE has credible and consolidated results for annual reports, Board reporting, public communications, donor stewardship, fundraising, and institutional positioning.
· Compile, maintain, and analyze country strategy data, project impact data, gender equality data, training data, service delivery data, partner data, and other organizational results information needed for strategic decision-making.
· Coordinate evaluations, learning reviews, after-action reviews, reflection sessions, and documentation of lessons learned, ensuring findings are translated into practical improvements in program design and implementation.
· Support impact storytelling by providing verified data, results narratives, lessons learned, and evidence that can be used by advancement, communications, fundraising, and donor engagement teams.
· Collaborate closely with Country Offices, program staff, finance teams, institutional funding staff, advancement and communications teams, consultants, evaluators, partners, and external stakeholders.
· Support donor engagement by preparing evidence, impact summaries, MEAL inputs, gender equality inputs, and results documentation for institutional funding opportunities and donor reporting.
· Maintain OE’s organizational MEAL tools, indicator reference sheets, data collection templates, reporting calendars, report trackers, evaluation plans, and documentation systems.
· Support budgeting and planning for MEAL activities, evaluations, baselines, assessments, digital data systems, gender analyses, training, and learning events.
· Develop scopes of work and terms of reference for consultants, evaluators, researchers, and technical service providers, and monitor deliverables where applicable.
· Contribute to OE’s organizational strategy, country strategies, program models, and institutional funding strategy by ensuring decisions are grounded in evidence, gender analysis, and lessons from implementation.
· Bachelor’s degree in international development, public health, social sciences, gender studies, evaluation, statistics, epidemiology, or a related field. A Master’s degree is strongly preferred.
· Minimum 7 to 10 years of progressive experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, impact measurement, and gender equality within international development, public health, global health, or humanitarian programming.
· Demonstrated experience working with Canadian NGOs or international NGOs, preferably with multi-country programs and Country Office structures.
· Direct experience with Global Affairs Canada proposal development, results-based management, logic models, performance measurement frameworks, reporting requirements, and FIAP-aligned gender equality integration is strongly preferred.
· Experience with other institutional donors such as the European Union, FCDO, USAID, UN agencies, foundations, and other bilateral or multilateral donors.
· Strong experience developing theories of change, logical frameworks, results frameworks, indicators, baseline and endline tools, data collection instruments, evaluation frameworks, reporting templates, and learning products.
· Strong understanding of gender equality, women’s empowerment, intersectional analysis, disability inclusion, safeguarding, accountability, and gender-responsive or gender-transformative programming.
· Experience developing organizational or project-level gender strategies, conducting gender analyses, training staff and partners, and integrating gender equality into proposals, reports, monitoring systems, and organizational strategies.
· Experience strengthening data systems, data quality assurance, ethical data collection, data protection, data verification, partner reporting processes, and practical use of data for program management.
· Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills, including the ability to interpret complex data and present findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
· Advanced Excel skills and experience with data visualization, dashboards, digital data collection systems, and Management Information Systems are strong assets.
· Experience working with Country Offices, local partners, health systems, community-based programming, or Ministries of Health is strongly preferred.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce high-quality donor reports, annual impact content, learning briefs, training materials, and proposal sections.
· Strong facilitation, training, mentoring, and capacity-building skills across cultures, disciplines, and levels of technical knowledge.
· High level of organization, attention to detail, sound judgement, diplomacy, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
· MEAL and impact leadership, with the ability to build practical systems that improve program quality, reporting, learning, accountability, and organizational credibility.
· Results-based management expertise, including strong knowledge of theories of change, logframes, PMFs, indicators, baselines, targets, data sources, assumptions, and donor reporting requirements.
· Gender equality and inclusion expertise, with practical ability to integrate gender analysis, FIAP-aligned design, disability inclusion, safeguarding, and disaggregated data into programs and proposals.
· Institutional donor orientation, with the ability to translate GAC and other donor expectations into usable tools, templates, budgets, reports, and evidence products.
· International operational judgement, grounded in experience with Country Offices, partners, local systems, public health actors, and cross-cultural working relationships.
· Capacity building and facilitation, with the ability to train, coach, and support staff and partners while keeping systems clear, realistic, and useful.
· Analytical communication, with the ability to turn data into clear findings, recommendations, donor narratives, impact summaries, and decision-making inputs.
· Collaboration and service orientation, with the ability to work effectively across program, finance, institutional funding, communications, advancement, leadership, and country teams.
· Integrity, accountability, and respect for ethical data practice, community accountability, equity, inclusion, safeguarding, and evidence-based program improvement.
· Canada-based role, with hybrid or remote work arrangements depending on organizational needs.
· Prolonged periods of sitting and computer-based work.
· Domestic and international travel may be required to support Country Offices, partners, donors, evaluations, training, and program monitoring.
· Ability to work across multiple time zones and with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders in different countries.
· Occasional evening or weekend work may be required to support international operations, proposal deadlines, donor reporting, evaluations, or urgent organizational needs.
· Acts as an ambassador of Operation Eyesight Canada and operates effectively in multicultural, multi-country, and cross-functional settings.
The Advisor, MEAL, Impact and Gender Equality is expected to model Operation Eyesight’s values in all aspects of technical leadership, internal collaboration, donor accountability, gender equality, evidence use, and international operations:
· Equity
· Innovation
· Citizenship
· Compassion
· Excellence
Does this opportunity sound right for you? Please submit your resume and cover letter to [email protected].
This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found. Kindly note that only applicants who showcase their relevant experience will be contacted. Thank you.
Published:
June 10, 2026
Deadline:
July 1, 2026
Type:
Location:
Canada
Organization:
Operation Eyesight Universal
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