Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Advisor

Location: Lusaka, Zambia About AMSCO AMSCO Advisory Services Zambia is a leading provider of human capital solutions across Africa, supporting organizations to strengthen their workforce and performance. AMSCO offers end-to-end HR advisory services, including organizational development, performance management, and HR systems implementation. A core area of expertise is recruitment, where AMSCO delivers structured, full-cycle talent acquisition services, including headhunting, screening, and candidate assessment. Leveraging strong regional networks and a rigorous selection process, AMSCO identifies high-quality candidates with proven experience and organizational fit, ensuring efficient, transparent, and effective recruitment outcomes. Background Our client is an international nonprofit organization working with local, national, regional, and global partners to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), with a focus on ensuring that high quality, evidence-based services particularly safe abortion care and contraception are available, accessible, and acceptable to women and girls. The approach is holistic and rights based, encompassing health systems strengthening through provider training and capacity building, support for national standards and guidelines, and improvements in supply chain systems to ensure consistent availability of essential commodities. We also engage with governments and key stakeholders to promote enabling policy and legal environments, while addressing social barriers such as stigma and misinformation through community engagement, ultimately empowering women and girls to make informed decisions about their health and contributing to improved health outcomes and gender equality. Position Purpose The MERL Advisor provides technical leadership for monitoring, evaluation, research and learning across country and regional projects. The role leads the design and strengthening of MERL systems (including theories of change, indicators, to