The Lake Tanganyika Basin MEL Lead

What We Can Achieve Together: The Lake Tanganyika Basin (LTB) Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Lead (LTB MEL Lead) serves as the technical lead responsible for designing, coordinating, and continuously improving the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning function for the Lake Tanganyika Basin Irreplaceable Landscape strategy. This role provides technical leadership to design, implement and adapt a basin-wide MEL system that tracks progress across freshwater, terrestrial, livelihood, governance, gender, climate resilience, sustainable finance, and transboundary collaboration outcomes. Based in Kigoma, United Republic of Tanzania, and reporting to the Lake Tanganyika Basin Director, with technical alignment to TNC Africa MEL standards and guidance, the LTB MEL Lead ensures that the program strategy is supported by a decision-oriented performance management system that generates credible evidence for course correction, accountability, donor reporting, and strategic learning across multiple countries and partners.

translates complex conservation objectives into measurable outputs and outcomes and provides analysis, insights, and recommendations to help the LTB team align program investments with the strategy’s intended impact at scale. Drawing from the Lake Tanganyika basin theory of change, the MEL Lead will work closely with the Lake Tanganyika Basin Deputy Director, LTB Workstream Leads and relevant Africa Science and MEL team to co-develop indicators and learning qu