Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA)/Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director, Ghana at ACDI/VOCA

About The Job

Summary:

• ACDI/VOCA is seeking a Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA)/Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director for an upcoming youth activity in Ghana funded by USAID. 
• The program will improve the socioeconomic status of youth in northern Ghana through youth-led and youth-serving organizations, among others, to generate cross-sectoral, positive youth development outcomes, allowing them to make better life decisions and influence policy. 
• The program will give special attention to the needs of girls, the disabled, and other disadvantaged groups.

Position Summary:

• The CLA/MEL Director will develop and facilitate learning workshops with technical leads and partners, including engaging local teams in developing learning priorities and questions and identifying evidence-based ways to adapt and scale interventions. 
• They will design and manage the CLA and MEL plan and Activity learning agenda to systematically generate, synthesize, share, and apply learning and employ adaptive management processes. 
• The program is anticipated to start in 2024 and this position is based in Tamale, Ghana.

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for learning and knowledge exchange
• Ensure that programmatic learning and results are fully documented, shared, and used to drive adaptive management processes
• Lead the collection, analysis, documentation, dissemination, and use of best practices and lessons learned
• Design and implement internal and external knowledge exchange and learning events to improve peer-to-peer learning, knowledge sharing and application
• Develop and/or maintain strategic relationships with relevant stakeholders to promote effective coordination, collaboration, and dissemination of program learning
• Support the design of and manage the MEL framework and plan that incorporates CLA principles and components
• Lead/oversee the baseline data collection process and ensure effective reporting and monitoring systems are in place
• Provide capacity building and technical assistance to ACDI/VOCA and partner organization staff in the utilization and management of monitoring and impact assessment tools
• Conduct/oversee qualitative and quantitative program impact surveys to ensure that project goals are met and that all information required for submission to donor is collected in a valid, reliable, and timely manner
• Complete/oversee impact assessment, midline, and end line surveys to assess positive and negative, intended and unintended impacts of Activity interventions
• Design learning approaches that enable analysis of data, context, and emerging experience, as well as iterative adaptive management for the Activity's technical approaches
• Employ best practices in gender, youth, and social inclusion (GYSI) in research, including youth engagement in research design, data collection, and analysis
• Ensure the project sets informed GYSI targets, establishes appropriate GYSI-focused indicators, and adequately monitors for, measures, and reports on GYSI results

Experience And Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in monitoring and evaluation, development studies, research methods, quantitative or qualitative analysis, economics, statistics, or relevant field is required; master’s degree is desired.
• Minimum 8 years of experience managing the MEL and/or CLA component of a donor-funded project, USAID preferred.
• Proven experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods, survey design and implementation, and statistical data analysis is required.
• Familiarity with applying the CLA approach to management is desired.
• Experience with best practices in gender-responsive youth-led research methods preferred.
• Demonstrated experience building the capacities of staff and partners in research methods and design preferred.
• Experience working in northern Ghana preferred.
• Fluency in English required.
• Ghanaian nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.