Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Communication Assistant – Nigeria SCALE at Palladium Group

Project Overview and Role:

• The objective of the SCALE project is to support civil society organizations (CSOs) and business membership organizations (BMOs) across all of USAID/Nigeria’s programmatic sectors with a basket of managerial, business strengthening, and advocacy capacity-building interventions aimed at advancing Nigerian CSO sustainability combined with targeted grants to advance mutually agreed upon priorities. The activity is designed to enhance local civil society organizations’ ability to be positive and responsible change agents in Nigeria.
• The SCALE project requires a highly motivated Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Communication (MEL-C) Assistant to join its Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Unit. The MEL-C assistant will support all communications, documentation, data collection, monitoring, evaluation, and learning program activities. In this capacity, they will undertake monitoring and evaluation tasks and contribute to maintaining the project’s monitoring and evaluation systems for gathering, reporting, and analyzing performance data for impact. They will perform general technical, administrative, and monitoring program tasks to support SCALE activities across the project’s intervention sectors, including Tuberculosis, Trafficking in Persons, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, Health, Education, etc. The selected candidate will report to the project’s Knowledge Management Officer.

Duration: 1 year, with possibility of extension for an additional 6 months.
Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contributes to monitoring the Activity Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Plan (AMELP) to systematically document performance for technical team to ensure implementation is on track.
• With oversight of the Knowledge Management Officer, develops tailored content and ensures consistent visibility of the project through the management of the project’s social media platforms of the communication strategy.
• Facilitates media and social media administrative processes.
• Supports monitoring and tracking of project activities against the results framework.
• Conducts virtual assessments with partners as necessary for data validation to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets.
• Works closely with the Project Advisors to support SCALE partners with implementing project interventions.
• Works closely with the project partners to build their MEL and communications capacity.
• Manages the physical and virtual filing system for project documents and attendance sheets.
• Supports the development of reports, communications materials, and engagement activities, documenting events and activities.
• Supports the production of infographics and communication materials for dissemination.
• Develops communications campaigns to highlight thematic topic areas as necessary and helps develop and implement engagement strategies.
• Organizes and backstops webinars and other learning events.
• Provides secretarial, administrative, and logistical support for meetings and other project events.

Required Qualifications:

• A degree in demography, statistics, social sciences, journalism, knowledge management, public policy communications or related field.
• Minimum of one year of progressively responsible experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning and/or communications and knowledge management tasks for development projects.
• Competency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint required, basic knowledge in statistical software and graphic design software a plus with room for improvement.
• Strong organizational skills and oral/written communication skills in English.
• Experience with USAID-funded governance programs highly desired.
• Must be authorized to work in Nigeria.