Roving Supply Chain Lead – Esa at CARE
What We Are Looking For:
At CARE, we value diversely talented people who can bring different experiences
and perspectives to our organization. We know that not all applicants will have
every skill and qualification. We encourage everyone who meets the minimum
required qualifications to apply. Having one or more of the preferred
qualifications will strengthen an application. But, even if you are earlier in
your career or followed a non-traditional educational or professional path, we
hope you will consider a career at CARE.
What You will Do
- Drive
operational excellence – Provide expert technical guidance to Country
Office Supply Chain teams to strengthen systems in procurement, logistics,
warehousing, fleet management, and distribution.
- Champion
performance and learning – Build capacity, mentor Supply Chain leaders,
and promote a culture of continuous improvement and planning across
countries.
- Lead
transformation and innovation – Partner with the Global Supply Chain team
to roll out new policies, tools, and technologies that advance CARE’s
Supply Chain Transformation agenda.
- Enable
emergency readiness – Ensure preparedness and rapid response in
humanitarian emergencies through strong supply chain planning and
readiness initiatives.
- Manage
risk and strengthen compliance – Identify and mitigate operational risks,
ensure donor compliance, and embed strong accountability measures.
- Collaborate
for impact – Work across global, regional, and country teams to align
strategies, share insights, and influence decision-making that drives
CARE’s broader regional and global goals.
Why This Role Matters
- Supply
chain is not just logistics—it’s the backbone of how CARE delivers
life-changing programs to the world’s most vulnerable communities. In
humanitarian emergencies, your work directly impacts how quickly we can
respond. In long-term development programs, your systems determine our
efficiency and reach.
- You
will report to the Global Supply Chain Director while maintaining
dotted-line connections to CO Supply Chain Leads and Regional Business
Services Leads. This unique position gives you influence across multiple
levels of the organization and the chance to drive systemic change.
Required Qualifications:
- You
bring 5+ years of proven experience in procurement, logistics, or
administration in Country Office or regional field settings. But more than
that:
- You
are decisive under pressure—able to assess rapidly changing situations and
move operations forward with limited guidance
- You
balance strategic vision with operational detail, seeing both the macro
picture and the micro realities
- You
are a natural connector with strong relationship-building skills and a
genuine service mindset
- You
excel at facilitation and training, translating complex concepts into
actionable guidance
- You
are culturally sensitive and adaptable, developing solutions that honor
local contexts while advancing CARE’s mission
- You
thrive in ambiguity and stress, maintaining focus even in risky or
challenging conditions
- Your
written and spoken English is excellent, enabling clear communication
across diverse stakeholders.
Senior Meal Advisor at CARE
JOB SUMMARY:
CARE is seeking an experienced and creative monitoring,
evaluation, adaptation and learning specialist to join the management team of a
for an11M digital impact program focused on advancing meaningful digital
adoption and use of the internet for women and girls, strengthening lives and
livelihoods while influencing digital ecosystems through evidence and learning.
Employing a strong localization approach, the program will create opportunities
for organizations and businesses across Sub-Saharan Africa to advance effective
and replicable approaches to digital inclusion for women while generating
insights and lessons for others to adopt and implement.
About the role: As the Senior MEAL Advisor for this effort,
you will champion and operationalize the learning agenda developed by the
donors and CARE. You will be the MEAL specialist in a small team characterized
by passion for locally-focused digital development, impactful partnerships, and
great data. You will be responsible for defining the measurement tools and
systems we will deploy across all program investments to monitor performance
and generate data that supports both the learning agenda and emerging lessons.
You will make sure the program honors the theory of change and evaluation
frameworks that promote sense-making and communicate impact. You will build
partnerships with sub-awardees and manage vendors to support the consistent
collection, management, and analysis of data from across the program’s
investment portfolio. You will coordinate the consolidation of program results,
performance and lessons for a wide range of audiences, and create opportunities
for cross-program/sub-awardee information sharing.
About you: The position requires exceptional skills working
across cultures to support innovative program design, implementation,
monitoring, evaluation and learning; development of sound tools and operating
procedures to assure quality implementation and measurement of achievement;
proven methods to enhance data use for decision making; excellent communication
and presentations skills, including proven diplomacy with high-level
stakeholders; and sound written and oral skills. Successful candidates will bring
a clear track record of building creative, cost-effective, multi-country
measurement and learning systems that support decision making and performance
monitoring. You will have experience with complex gender and social norms
programming and an understanding of effective tools or tactics for measuring
change in these domains. We want a team player who is ready to jump into a
small, quickly-moving team and make it work
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Develop and Manage MEAL Systems
- Lead
the development and management of the program MEAL System for a 3.5 year
program in line with the program theory of change and learning
priorities
- Develop
and/or define key performance indicators and impact metrics, drawing on
existing indicators and tested tools as much as possible
- Develop
data collection instruments and systems to support responsible data
management and timely reporting between sub-awardees, CARE, and
donors
- Manage
and/or generate routine reports, drawing on MEAL system to assess program
progress, identify emerging lessons and illustrate opportunities for
improvement
Manage data collection approaches and data management
vendors
- Recruit
and manage regional MEAL consultants and/or firms to support the delivery
of the program MEAL system
- Help
articulate an evidence base that supporting the learning agenda
- Extract
insights from previous programming to inform impact assessments
- Connect
with KM colleagues across CARE and the larger public to share data and
findings
Training, capacity building, and sharing learnings
- Create
excellent rapport with sub-awardees and provide technical assistance
across MEAL activities
- Deliver
capacity building and training support to program sub-grantees as
needed
- Create
opportunity for cross-regional “sharing and learning” events – online, in
person as possible, etc.
- Willingness
to travel up to 35% of the time
Represent program with internal and external audiences
- Generating
and/or supporting others to generate program reports and
presentations
- Presenting
program updates to internal stakeholders and donors
- Representing
the program in external events and conferences
- Required
Qualifications:
- –
Bachelor’s degree and least 10 years of relevant experience with
international development/financial
inclusion/social impact organizations
– Creative and impact-driven ideas about MEAL in the context of digital inclusion
– Ability to take the lead/self-start based on the needs of the larger program
– Confidence to bring a greater voice to MEAL and make substantive program recommendations
– Mixed-method expertise, with depth in participatory and emancipatory MEAL approaches
– Strong cross-cultural communication skills, including experience working with globally distributed teams
– International work and lived experience, preferable in Sub-Saharan Africa
– An entrepreneurial mindset, comfort with ambiguity and a commitment to going beyond the status quo
– Excellent measurement tool development/use across large-scale multi-country research
– Experience delivering MEAL capacity building to support others to execute monitoring and evaluation tasks
– Direct line management and/or consultant management experience
– Fluent English speaker and writer: effective communicator, able to convert complex data and information into
engaging reports, analysis, and insights
– Knowledge/use of digital data collection services – ODK, Kobo, and participant-facing data/reporting/feedback
systems - Preferred
Qualifications:
- –
Master’s degree in development-related methods, data science, science and
technology or other relevant
field, or the equivalent combination of education and work experience.
– Experience or familiarity with the digital impact, economic empowerment and/or financial inclusion data and
tools
– Experience measuring gender norms and/or change gender-focused programming
– Grounded in local approaches through participatory action research and other empowerment-based
approaches
– Commitment to gender equality, localization and decolonization of aid
– Exemplary critical thinking and reasoning skills to break down complex problems and find practical solutions