Monitoring and Evaluations Specialist at CrossBoundary

Job Description

• CrossBoundary is recruiting a full-time Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to join CrossBoundary in Ghana. As a member of the transaction team, you will actively contribute to a powerful intervention that has the potential for significant impact on investment into West Africa, in addition to building CrossBoundary’s long term presence in the region.
• CrossBoundary is an investment firm. As a Monitoring and Evaluations Specialist, you will be responsible for coordinating country level M&E activities, including capacity building of staff and partners, M&E systems development and management, evidence-based reporting and documentation of impact change stories, and ensuring projects meet the West African standard operating procedures for M&E. You will make use of tools that capture data to track regional progress, manage regional database and ensure timely and quality reporting for internal and external purposes.

Who We Are

• The CrossBoundary team is a unique group made up of people who are genuinely excited by the opportunity to make a difference in some of the most challenging yet exciting markets in the world. Team members come from diverse backgrounds but share several qualities: curiosity, humility, integrity, a drive for excellence, and a bias for action.

Who You Are

• Self-starter who is passionate about creating lasting change in frontier markets
• Willingness to take on new types of work, even without prior experience or direct supervision
• Willingness to work and live in a sometimes-challenging environment
• Comfort with ambiguity; ability to operate effectively in a changing context

Primary Responsibilities

• Developing the monitoring and evaluation framework and associated tools for CrossBoundary’s mandates in Ghana
• Overseeing monitoring and evaluations aspects of the implementation of CrossBoundary’s mandates in Ghana
• Managing project performance and overseeing reporting of all project activities and results to key program stakeholders
• Managing reporting facilitation, including:
• KPI establishment, tracking, and reporting
• Data analysis
• Organize and lead performance plan review meetings for implementing partners
• Conducting macroeconomic, regulatory, and operational assessments
• Providing sector analysis of priority areas for investment monitoring
• Managing numerous investor relationships
• Develop links with academic research institutes
• Manage the quality assurance on external and internal evaluations

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and qualifications:

• 5+ years in top-tier banking, consulting, donor or implementation partnering
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’ or another advanced degree strongly desired
• Experience working in developing countries
• English business fluency with French as an advantage
• Demonstrated leadership skills; preferably in fast-moving and complex environments
• Excellent analytical ability and discipline; ability to think clearly, structure problems logically, and then design and implement solutions that focus on the core issue
• Excellent quantitative skills; ability to apply analytical rigor to complex and uncertain tasks
• Knowledge of donor finance and familiarity with project evaluation and monitoring techniques
• Ability to build strong relationships with clients and colleagues in stressful environments
• Excellent presentation skills; ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences
• Comfort with ambiguity; ability to operate effectively in a changing context
• Willingness to work and live in a sometimes challenging environment
• Knowledge of the West African investment landscape (or previous work experience in it)
• Experience working with a range of stakeholders (including private equity firms, Development Finance Institutions, and development agencies) to support investments in high-impact sectors