Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
The Monitoring & Evaluation Team Lead will;
- Provide overall leadership and strategic direction for the Foundation's Monitoring and Evaluation function, alignment with organisational strategy, programme and governance expectations.
- Develop, implement, and periodically review an organisation-wide M&E framework, performance measurement system, and learning agenda covering all programmes and interventions.
- Oversee the design and implementation of programme-level M&E plans, including indicators, targets, baselines, endlines, and evaluation schedules.
- Lead or supervise baseline studies, midline reviews, endline evaluations, and impact assessments, ensuring methodological rigour and relevance.
- Ensure timely tracking of outputs, outcomes, and impact across all programmes, with clear linkages to strategic objectives.
- Promote the systematic use of data and evidence to inform programme adaptation, learning. and continuous improvement
- Establish and maintain robust data collection, management, and reporting systems that ensure accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and consistency.
- Oversee routine data verification, validation exercises, and audits across the programme lifecycle.
- Maintain high-quality databases and dashboards that provide a single, consolidated view of programme performance and results.
- Lead the synthesis and analysis of programme data for internal management use, donor reporting, annual reports, and board-level updates.
- Provide technical guidance and data-driven insights to support programme design, stakeholder engagement, capacity-building initiatives, and strategic planning.
- Support leadership and programme teams with evidence required for decision-making, advocacy, and external engagement.
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum of Second-Class Upper in Social Sciences, Information Management, Education, Statistics or other related fields.
- 8 - 10 years' experience required.
Technical, Core and Behavioural Competencies
- Research and analytics Report writing
- Teamwork
- Time Management
- Critical Thinking and Initiative
- Effective Communication