Palladium International Vacancy for a Head of Monitoring Evaluation and Learning
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Job Title: Head of Monitoring Evaluation and Learning
Project Overview and Role
The Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL)
is a flagship five-year Public Sector Accountability and Governance
programme, working in three States, and in addition 3 Regions of
Nigeria, funded by the UK Department for International Development
(DFID). The focus of PERL is to reform how governments organise their
core business of making, implementing, tracking and accounting for
policies, plans and budgets used in delivering public goods and services
to the citizenry, and how citizens themselves engage with these
processes.
The Engaged Citizens (ECP)is part of
RERL sustainable delivery of public goods and services which better
respond to citizens needs. The program is divided into three pillars
with pillar one titled
Accountable, Capable and Responsive Government
(ARC) will help strengthened processes, practices and capabilities
within government to ensure more accountable and effective use of public
resources. Pillar two
Engaged Citizens (ECP) will help
constituencies become increasingly effective at influencing governments
on selected service delivery and policy issues for the benefit of
increasing numbers of Nigerians. Finally pillar three titled
Learning, Evidence and Influencing
(LEAP) will engage in Nigerian public discourse including other
development programmes, and political leadership for them to benefit
from a strengthened evidence base (provided by the work of Pillars
1&2) on how to deliver public sector reform and broader social
change in favour of increased public accountability and reduced
corruption.
Responsibilities
The Head of MEL Support will be a member of the Programme Management
Team, together with the Programme Director, Team Leader, Technical
Director and Heads of Technical and Operational Support. As a member of
this team, the Head of MEL Support will jointly:
- Oversee production of ECP-wide plans, reports and other deliverables.
- Ensure that action is taken in light of feedback and decisions from
the Programme Steering Committee (PSC) and Strategic Leadership Board
(SLB).
- Approve state or regional level workplans and take decisions on
allocation of ECP resources and funding, including decisions on
consultancy inputs from the Strategic Technical Group (STG) of
specialist short-term advisers from our niche partners and our more
general Short-Term Technical Assistance Pool.
- Agree lead responsibilities for each STL and the FTL between the 3
Heads, with consideration to priority team needs, operational
arrangement and professional/personal mentoring relationship.
- Provide daily oversight, staff performance management, including
mentoring, staff development (in line with ECP?s Mission, Vision, Values
& Behaviours and their ToR), signing off timesheets, appraisal,
mediation, arbitration, and enforcement of discipline.
- Line management of the National/Federal, Northern and Southern MEL
Officers and the MEL Reporting Officer ? provide daily oversight, staff
performance management, including mentoring, staff development (in line
with ECP?s Mission, Vision, Values & Behaviours and their ToR),
signing off timesheets, appraisal, mediation, arbitration, and
enforcement of discipline.
- Take decisions relating to continuation, further testing, adapting
and scale-up of interventions that have been approved by the SLB.
- Provide collective oversight to our national, state and federal programme delivery teams.
- Work with the Head of Technical and Head of Operations to develop a
system of joint line management for all STLs and the FTL that meets
their required management needs in terms of providing technical, MEL and
operational team leadership in their respective locations.
Requirements
- Educated to degree level or above (masters degree preferable)
- Excellent communication skills, working with team members from different countries and backgrounds.
- Ability to manage large teams often remotely and in a complex programme
- High level of integrity and provides consistency in a dynamic and evolving programme
- At least 10 years of experience in the field of monitoring and evaluation
- At least 5 yearsexperience working with DFID or other donors and managing other team members
- At least 5 years of experience of direct line management of staff
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