Vacancy: Head of Monitoring & Evaluation

Company Profile

Lively Minds, an award-winning charity, is hiring to support our ambitious and exciting Early Childhood Development programme in Ghana and Uganda.

Job Description

Lively Minds is seeking a technically-excellent, creative and collaborative Head of Monitoring & Evaluation to join our lively, global senior management team. The role is fast-paced and collaborative.

The successful candidate will build up our data systems to support our organisation as we go through an exciting period of transformative growth.

For a detailed understanding of the role and person criteria, please see the Job Description on our website: www.livelyminds.org/jobs-head-monitoring-evaluation.

Required Skills or Experience

You must be:

• Extremely proficient in Excel (familiar with functionality including tables, external data queries, index and lookup functions)


• Experienced in building simple to use, robust data entry forms


• Able to cleanse and process data from these forms and from other sources into databases (e.g. Excel, Access, SQL)


• Experienced in producing reports that clearly visualise information from these data in a way that allows others to make strategic decisions


• A strong communicator, able to make technical data understandable to and engaging for lay audiences (donors, stakeholders, other team members, beneficiaries)


• Familiar with statistical methods used in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations


• Able to manage large projects with minimal supervision


• Experienced in managing external contractors (e.g. independent evaluators)

Desirable:

• Familiar with the use of VBA to automate common tasks (for yourself and other users)


• Familiar with xlsForm (or similar formats used in survey design)


• Familiar with MS365 and PowerBI