Monitoring, Reporting, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Officer at Palladium Group

Ref Id: req10872

Project Overview and Role

• Global Prosperity Fund’s ‘Skills for Prosperity’ is a £75m FCDO programme, which seeks to improve the cost-effectiveness, access, quality, relevance, and equity of skills through innovative approaches in 9 Middle-Income Countries around the world, including Nigeria.
• In Nigeria, the Skills for Prosperity (S4P) country programme will work in three targeted states to:
  • Improve access to quality Higher Education and TVET for youth and young women, with a focus on improving access to and the quality of apprenticeships, and supporting training institutions to deliver demand-driven, competency-based training,
  • Strengthen education-to-employment linkages, and  Build the capacity of training institutions to improve outcomes for vulnerable women and people with disabilities.
  • Apprenticeships, training, and capacity building interventions will focus on identified high growth sectors of the economy (Agriculture/Agribusiness/agro-allied industries; Creative and Entertainment, and Information and Communications Technology sectors).
  • S4P-Nigeria aims to directly benefit youth, vulnerable women and People with Disabilities (PwD) in targeted states of Kaduna in the north, Benue in the central belt, and Lagos in the south. It will also establish learning and peer sharing mechanisms across other states, including Kano, Enugu and Edo.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Background:

• S4P-N requires a MREAL Officer with a relevant track record, interest and experienced in the private sector and skills training.

Responsibilities:
The MREAL Officer will be responsible for the following:

• Support in effective monitoring and evaluation of the program against key performance indicators
• Support knowledge management and performance tracking required for successful delivery of all programme outputs
• Support in documenting and sharing findings of MREL, incorporating feedback from stakeholders during primary and secondary discussions
• Provide documentation and data collation support across programme’s work streams
• Support in data analytics, reporting through dashboards, senior level presentations and management information systems
• Support in incorporating continuous feedback and learning from programme implementation - documenting best practices and developing knowledge products in form of case studies
• Support the implementation of S4P-Nigeria’s complaints and feedback mechanism

Level of effort:

• Full-time

Reporting:

• The MREAL Officer will report directly to the MREAL Officer with dotted lines to the Team Leader.

Location:

• Kaduna, Lagos and Benue Sates - Three slots.  One MREAL Officer in each location.

Required Qualifications

• Substantial experience managing results measurement in development projects, and preferably within skills development programmes
• Outstanding skills in data management (use of MS-Excel at advanced level is required; use of SPSS, Stata, Tableau or other data analysis software is an added advantage)
• Experience using both qualitative and quantitative data collection/research techniques
• Experience conducting MEL activities on DFID projects
• Previous experience of MREL efforts, including preferably in northern Nigeria
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills in English
• Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships across teams and organisations
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to effectively and efficiently perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities often within a required timeframe
• Experience developing electronic data collection forms in ODK is an added advantage
• Experience implementing complaints and feedback mechanism.