Job description
This role was posted on May 12, 2025. Please note that we will review applications on a rolling basis. Please apply by: May 19, 2025
The Role
At Last Mile Health, we dig data. Do you have experience in monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning for international development organizations, emphasizing research, evaluation, and learning and experience working in global public health? If yes, you may be the right fit for our Learning and Evidence Consultancy.
As part of LMH’s commitment to strengthening a culture of evidence and learning, we are seeking a qualified consultant to conduct topic-specific literature reviews aligned with our Learning Agenda and Evidence Base. The goal is to consolidate existing internal and external knowledge on priority topics and generate clear, actionable takeaways to inform program design, strategy, and adaptive decision-making. This work will contribute directly to LMH’s evidence base, hosted on Slite, by filling identified gaps in knowledge and aligning with our broader strategic learning themes.
Working with the Managing Director of the Global Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (GMERL) team and a core Working Group of country and global team representatives, the Consultant will have direct support in these exercises and have the opportunity to work autonomously and creatively in issues of method, process, tool development, documentation, and development of data-use and learning practices for the organization.
Consultancy Details
- Commitment: 10 days (80 hours)
- Total Estimated Fees Amount - $8,000
- Location - remote (preferred time zone is USA, EST)
- Duration: 10 days
Background and Context
Since its inception, Last Mile Health has produced significant research and publications, generating evidence about what works in the global health and community health worker sectors. As the organization has expanded from operations in Liberia to programming in Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, and Malawi, that emphasis on research and learning has continued. The Global Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (GMERL) team has now evolved to provide technical support, guidance, standards and quality oversight across these country teams. GMERL also works closely with other global teams (e.g., Health Systems Strengthening, Program Strategy and Performance, etc.) to develop standards, resources, tools and practices to promote high-quality program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. At the same time, internal and external learning continues to be a priority in LMH’s newest strategy, with a strategic emphasis on evaluating the outcomes, impact and cost-effectiveness of our work.
Currently, the GMERL team consists of a Managing Director, a Director of MERL Technical Support, 2 Senior Data Analysts, a MERL Officer, and a Data Systems team responsible for the development and maintenance of a Data Portal for managing program-related data. There is a need for some temporary support to help build out some foundational work on a Learning Agenda and organizational learning practices. The current plan is to use virtual, interactive multi-stakeholder mapping exercises to do two key things: 1) identifying the existing base of knowledge and evidence our Theory of Change and programs are based on (and later documenting and creating a repository of this knowledge), and 2) identifying the gaps in evidence and knowledge we still have about our work from which to develop a Learning Agenda to help fill these gaps. This work needs to be complemented by efforts to socialize the work, and better build an organizational culture of learning.
TASK 3
Expert Review & Relevance Check (Submit a draft annotated bibliography or summary of findings to LMH for review, Participate in a short review call with LMH’s internal technical leads from Global Monitoring Evaluation Research and Learning and Health Systems Strengthening to validate the relevance and completeness of the literature reviewed.)
Deliverables: Participation in at least one review or validation meeting
TASK 4
Deliver Summary Brief (Produce a 2-page synthesis brief, including Key takeaways, Implications for LMH’s work, Recommendations for LMH opportunities, and suggested studies)
Deliverables: Two-page synthesis brief in LMH’s template
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in public health, international development, research or related field. Masters preferred.
- Progressive years of experience in MERL for international development organizations, with an emphasis on research, evaluation, and learning.
- Experience working in global public health.
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing organizational initiatives involving communications, process, and tool development (e.g., behavior change, policy roll-out, etc.)
- Excellent computer skills, including the development of technical and non-technical materials and documents
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels of technical and non-technical management and with other stakeholders.
About Last Mile Health
Last Mile Health (LMH) saves lives in the world’s most remote communities by partnering with governments to bring critical primary care services to the doorsteps of people living in the last mile. LMH is a registered 501©3 non-profit organization and currently works in Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Sierra Leone with US offices in Boston. For more information, visit www.lastmilehealth.org
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at LMH. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
