Vacancy: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager

Company Profile

We are child centred international non-governmental organization supporting children and young people in Africa who face inequalities such as lack of access to education and safe spaces, providing them with the tools and skills they need to build their own futures.

We don’t work alone. Together with partners, supporters, children and their communities, we protect, educate and create lasting change for every child threatened by violence, neglect and conflict.

We believe that no child should have to fight for a safe, happy childhood. We exist to ensure that every child in Africa can thrive from their  early  years  through  to adulthood. Currently, we have programmes in Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and DRC.

Job Description

• Job title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager 


• Reporting to: Chief Operations Officer


• Salary: GHC180,000–GHC240,000 per annum, depending on experience 


• Job type: Fixed term (2 years renewable)


• Full-time (40 hours per week)


• Location: Ghana, with periodic travel to East Africa

• Provide overall monitoring, evaluation and learning to the leadership on programmes, bringing coherence to all MEL activities and setting priorities in designing and overseeing the implementation of MEL activities across the organisation.


• Work with the Programme Managers and Technical Leads, ensuring a harmonised and well-integrated approach to MEL across the organisation.


• Provide capacity strengthening and leadership of Programmes Team to ensure innovative, adaptive, and iterative learning approaches across the organisation.


• Lead the development of Theories of Change across Programmes and Projects.


• Update and lead in the implementation of the current MEL Strategy.

• Lead in the quality of program design – reviewing log-frames, results frameworks, project plans, MEL plans and ensure that it directly correlates to the programme theory of change.


• Support the Programme teams in updating log frames and provide necessary MEL guidance regarding project performance.


• Lead in the development and harmonization of M&E tools and guidelines for data collection, collation and reporting.


• Maintain a programme M&E database and ensure that the databases are updated regularly across projects.


• Capacity strengthening of programme staff and partners on relevant areas of MEL.


• Lead in conducting data quality assessment to ensure that data reported is valid, accurate and consistent while providing feedback as necessary to programme teams.


• Lead in assessing programmes against the outcomes and outputs on periodic basis.


• Support programmes fundraising teams in developing quality programmes reports.

• Work with the programmes teams to develop and implement an innovative plan for generating and sharing project research evidence and feedback across the organisation and to key stakeholders.


• Work with programmes team to design innovative and participatory monitoring and evaluation methodologies and tools to access outcomes and impacts of programmes.


• Managing evaluations independently, including evaluation design and methodologies


• With support from fundraising, communications and programmes teams develop quality case studies.

• Work with Head of Safeguarding, Training and Learning to provide leadership, strategic direction, and oversight of the organisations learning approach.


• Adopt the use of digital technology to facilitate innovative strategies for shared learnings across the organisation and ensure the key learning's are incorporated in upcoming plans and interventions.


• Stay up to date with learnings from complementary programmes and adopt best practices as necessary.

Required Skills or Experience

• • Master's Degree in social sciences, Monitoring and Evaluation or other relevant subject area.


• • A minimum of 5 years practical experience in designing, planning, monitoring, reviewing and reporting using project cycle management approach and sector tools such as theory of change and logical frameworks in an international non- governmental organisation or other international relief/development body.


• • Ability to assess needs and gaps in MEL capacity and plan programmes of work to build capacity across the organisation.


• • Experience in conducting and/ or managing review or evaluation of projects.


• • Highly organised with ability to manage the MEL of complex and multiple projects and deliver within timelines.


• • Strong interpersonal and networking skills.


• • Experience managing external evaluators and a clear, deep understanding of different evaluation methodologies and approaches.