MEL Specialist at TechnoServe

Job Summary

The MEL Specialist is responsible for overseeing Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) processes within TechnoServe EdTech. This includes ensuring high-quality data management, reporting outcomes, sharing insights to improve our efficiency, and nurturing a culture of data-driven decision-making across the initiative.

Primary Functions & Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the entire data lifecycle - from primary data collection to final reporting - covering project performance indicators and emerging project information needs.
• Apply both qualitative and quantitative methods to address knowledge gaps.
• Contribute to the design of forms, surveys, indices, and the overall data management system.
• Perform regular development of databases and dashboards.
• Perform regular data quality assessments, data cleaning, and data analysis.
• Provide technical assistance and training to project staff on data collection, basic analysis, data review, and data utilization.
• Lead the project’s learning agenda through effective data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Align reporting with stakeholder expectations, ensuring high-quality, actionable insights.
• Supply inputs for data-driven decision-making.
• Assist in the process of adaptive management using project MEL data.
• Document and share best practices to capture valuable lessons learned.
• Facilitate efficient information flow within the implementation team.
• Actively engage with project staff on areas for course correction.
• Assist in the development of all project reports.
• Participate in the broader TechnoServe MEL ecosystem by attending meetings and supporting regional and global teams.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Data Analysis, or any social sciences-related fields.
• 3 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation or business intelligence processes. Alternatively 1 year experience with a masters degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

Additional qualifications that would make a candidate more desirable.

• Experience working on FCDO/UN funded projects in Nigeria
• Experience working with an INGO
• Experience working on an entrepreneurship donor-funded project

Languages Required

• Advanced English proficiency.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Passion for TechnoServe’s mission of prosperity for all Proven analytical skills.
• Effective communication with the team, users, and project stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, with flexibility and responsiveness.
• Skilled in collaborating within multicultural teams as a respectful and adaptable team player.
• Efficient multitasking and time management abilities.
• Proactive and initiative-driven.
• Proven technical skills in data collection, analysis and reporting.
• Experience utilizing M&E methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and participatory methods as well as the use of causal logic in designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating projects.
• Proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g. Looker Studio, PowerBI, Tableau or similar)
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
• Desired experience working with remote teams.