Senior M&E Specialist at Education Development Center (EDC)

Project: USAID/NIGERIA’S NORTHERN EDUCATION INITATIVE PLUS

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Has overall responsibility for leading and managing all major M&E tasks related to the project. This includes strategizing and conceiving monitoring and evaluations, setting ongoing priorities; leading implementation, and reviewing technical progress of M&E component.
• Implements monitoring and evaluation process including data analysis and reporting.
• Ensures that the methodologies proposed to measure the programs impact on access, retention, reading and learning outcomes, school safety, community engagement, gender, disability-inclusive, and conflict sensitive measures, are consistent and systematically tracked and reported.
• Creates and updates a comprehensive M&E plan to ensure all requisite data is collected in a timely manner in order to report progress toward performance indicators. This includes routine (monthly/quarterly) appraisal of performance against targets, challenges to achievement as well as reasons for success.
• Creates a comprehensive data collection plan, including generation of forms, collection procedures, collection schedule and rapid appraisal of data (timely data monitoring).
• Routinely analyzes implementation data and proposing performance targets to project leadership per USAID indicator to ensure progress is achieved.
• Ensures correct compilation of data and database management.
• Overall management and oversight of M&E agents. This includes conducting regular meetings with M&E Field Officers to improve M&E system and reinforcing capacities of M&E agents.
• Participates in data analysis for quarterly and annual reports and drafting data analysis sections. Prepares presentations of data for specific audiences as needed
• Conceives of, organizes and conducts research as needed on identified topics in support of program objectives.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Candidates for this position must have at least eight years designing, monitoring and evaluating programs.
• Experience working with education programs is STRONGLY preferred.
• Candidates must demonstrate success and experience in monitoring results and indicators of education quality, learning outcomes, access, retention and community engagement.
• Proficiency in Hausa preferred.
• The candidate must have a Master’s Degree in the social sciences or related field.