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We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director, USAID/Nigeria State2State (S2S)

Job ID: 1806B

Location: Nigeria

Job Description

The MEL Director reports to the Chief of Party and will be responsible for leading and managing the monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) activities for the project.

S/he will establish systems for gathering, reporting and analyzing performance data for impact and sustainability of project implementation.
Candidate should possess strong management, administrative and communication skills (including report writing).

Duties and Responsibilities

Lead Project’s M&E, knowledge management and capacity building objectives. This includes the design and implementation of a robust results, PMEP, and knowledge management framework to aggregate and disseminate useful and actionable information based on sound evidence generated from activities.

Provide technical assistance to state, LGA and CSO partners as required on monitoring evaluation systems capacity building and assessments
Synthesize and analyze lessons to determine policy implications, distil and articulate best fit innovations for dissemination with community of practice for phased approach to project implementation

Facilitate incorporation of research design and methodologies in the application of learning to project design and management.

Directly supervise and mentor project M&E/knowledge management staff. Build internal project staff capacity to implement MEL strategy.

Coordinates and manages all monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tasks and deliverables for the project. Establish systems for gathering, analysing, and reporting performance data for impact and sustainability of project implementation.  Coordinate and manage all MEL tasks and deliverables for the project and ensure that all required reports and documentation for the project’s internal management systems and for external reporting are produced according to USAID/Nigeria guidelines.

Oversees data collection processes and data quality; develops documentation of best practices; and facilitating the use of data to drive program design and decision making in support of an adaptive management (CLA) approach to project implementation


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