Senior Associate, MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning) - CATALYZE EduFinance
The Palladium Group
- Washington DC
- $61,000-92,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide technical guidance to the project team and implementing partners to ensure USAID MEL requirements are met on a timely basis
- Support in the development, maintenance, and updating of the project's MEL Plan(s), for both ongoing and new buy-ins
- Guide data collection, data cleaning, management of data, and display of results, based on both quantitative and qualitative inputs, for the execution of the project's MEL Plan(s), for both ongoing and new buy-ins
- Develop and/or maintain efficient and accurate data collection and analysis systems while ensuring data quality
- Assist in the implementation, dissemination, and use of evaluations, assessments, and monitoring data in program development, adjustment, or review
- Produce data visualizations and analyses to support project learning and communications materials for the client, and internal and external stakeholders
- Contribute to learning through supporting specific analysis, lessons learned, and reports
- Review implementing partner produced deliverables and provide feedback or technical guidance as needed.
- Work with the Senior Education Finance Specialist to identify project performance and/or contract issues to support their timely resolution
- Contribute to the project's adaptive management
- Support design and planning of current and potential buy-in activities through research and analysis of data from primary and secondary sources to identify trends, barriers, factors associated with project outcomes, and overall program performance as needed
- Relevant professional experience supporting USAID-funded projects
- Degree in economics, statistics, international development, public policy, or related field with 3 - 5 years relevant work in data analysis and monitoring and evaluation activities, including 2 years of experience supporting a large donor-funded project
- Familiarity with USAID MEL requirements
- Proficiency in word processing, database management, statistical analysis, survey, and presentation software
- A track record of working collaboratively with various stakeholders
- Strong interpersonal skills to maintain good relations with staff, relevant partners and counterparts
- Well-organized, strong attention to detail, able to work independently, skilled in handling multiple MEL tasks preserving high quality work, and able to adhere to deadlines
- Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills, including ability to develop and communicate a common vision and foster collaboration across an interdisciplinary team