Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Lead Vacancy Open (NGO)

About Palladium:
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 3,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

Palladium Americas:
Our Americas’ business team has brilliant and passionate colleagues working in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America as well as the Caribbean, fulfilling projects and assignments for clients from institutions, corporations, governments, and foundations based in the Americas. We have offices in Washington, DC, New York City, and Raleigh-Durham, NC.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Lead the development of the MEL plan and input into project work plans.
• Work closely with the technical leads to ensure compatibility and coordination within the M&E framework, and consistency with national and donor requirements.
• Responsible for rolling out the project MEL system and providing technical assistance to project stakeholders on utilizing the MEL system for the timely collection, management, analysis, and reporting of valid and reliable data that meet donor reporting requirements.
• Contribute to project deliverables, including annual workplans, and quarterly and annual reporting.
• Focus on strengthening the M&E system, building capacity of partners and staff, and improving alignment and support to host-country M&E systems.
• Institute routine data reviews as part of an adaptive management process including analyzing, interpreting and presenting data to project management and technical leads.
• Develop and lead the implementation of a robust learning agenda for continuous learning, collaboration, and adaptation.
• Undertake periodic reviews of program M&E systems including data quality assessments and plan M&E system strengthening actions.
• Oversee the publication and dissemination of information on successful and promising approaches, lessons learned and other program results to program partners, donors, Ghanaian counterparts and other key stakeholders.
• Reviews the project implementation activities to assess results and the impact.
• Ensures project scope and activities are compliant with USAID policies.

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience of working on monitoring and evaluation in education. Experience with Ghana education systems is preferred.
• Experience with education program monitoring including USAID education indicators, Equity in Education indicators, measures related to blended finance and measures used in capacity building.
• Demonstrated leadership skills in management information systems and data use in a complex program environment with multiple implementing organizations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English including the ability to communicate and translate complex technical and policy data and issues clearly and effectively to different stakeholders in order to build consensus.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully moving routine analysis, evaluation, and research findings to program actions.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing rigorous quantitative and qualitative data collection systems and knowledge of methods for data analysis.
• Solid understanding of USAID regulations and M&E reporting requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to create and maintain effective working relations with host country government personnel, stakeholders, NGO partners, and international donor agencies.
• Extensive experience in CLA.
• Strong analytical and computer skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SQL based databases)
• Ability to multi-task and keep track of concurrent activities and deadlines.
• Fluency in English
• Must be willing to live and travel within Ghana, especially to ZOI districts.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion – Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.

Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss.

Safeguarding – We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse.  All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.