Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at Lively Minds Ghana

​Main duties and responsibilities

•  Ensure the quality assurance of the data dashboards used to monitor programme progress and quality in real time. This includes conducting spotchecks and liaising with vendors to oversee updates and corrections to the dashboards.
•  Support Head of M&E in developing training for staff and government on monitoring systems
•  Liaising with colleagues in the Content and Implementation teams to ensure that input from the M&E team is of high quality and shared in a timely manner (e.g. updates to monitoring forms and analysis of programme data)
•  Supporting the M&E Assistant to resolve M&E-related requests made by colleagues to ensure that the M&E team delivers excellent ‘customer service’ to the wider organisation
•  Responsible for termly surveys of schools in, or about to join, the programme
•  Responsible for providing a termly summary of programme data to determine if implementing partners are implementing the programme to the required standard against key stage gate indicators

To succeed in this you, will be:

•  Be passionate about optimising data management and availability to drive programme quality
•  Have an aptitude for understanding complex data management systems and supporting colleagues to use these effectively
•  Take pride in constantly monitoring progress and results to iterate and get the best result
•  Be creative, proactive, and energetic: bringing new ideas and a can-do attitude to get to the very best sustainable results.
•  Be a team player that values and prioritises inclusivity: helping to create a positive work environment where everyone is motivated and feels able to participate, learn, improve and contribute

Experience and Skills
Essential experience and skills

•  3-5 years’ experience in M&E, IT or similar field
•  Excellent attention to detail: produces high-quality, accurate work in a timely manner
•  Excellent IT skills, including advanced Excel skills in data cleaning and analysis
•  Experience of working with mobile data collection tools such as KOBO, ClickMedix, ODK or similar, including creating and updating data collection forms and providing technical support to staff members using the forms to collect data.
•  Ability to manage and prioritise own workload with minimal supervison, whilst providing high quality ‘customer service’ to colleagues

Desirable experience and skills

•  Undergraduate degree (preferably in statistics, mathematics or IT)
•  Experience delivering training and building the capacity of others
•  Experience of working as part of a remote team
•  Experience of working in the early childhood development/education sector
•  Experience of delivering a programme alongside government partners

Please download an Application Form and send the completed form to [email protected] before the deadline.