About Palladium:
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
This Proposal Opportunity:
The position will be on the upcoming Pakistan Climate Resilient Water Governance Activity, a four-year USAID-funded activity to promote participatory water governance and management systems in Pakistan to mitigate extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change. The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager plays a key role in leading all monitoring, evaluation, and learning functions for this activity.
This position is contingent upon program award and USAID approval.
Location:
Islamabad, Pakistan
Reporting and Supervision:
This position will report to the Chief of Party (COP), collaborate with home office MEL advisor, and lead a small team of MEL and reporting specialists.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership to capture and communicate program results, as well as ensure high-quality, timely, valid, and verifiable data collection, reporting, analysis and learning.
- Gather and evaluate information such as project activity outcomes, impacts, and results, and ensure that findings are accurately presented in all USAID reporting and tracking tools.
- Responsible for developing and designing project systems to track program progress against indicators; collecting and verifying information and maintaining performance monitoring plans, reports, work plans, and monthly reports, ensuring that all reports and documentation for the project’s internal management systems and for external reporting are produced according to USAID guidelines.
- Oversee the project MEL team, including M&E Specialists and other positions. Oversee MEL subcontractors if applicable.
- Integrate the Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) approaches throughout implementation to ensure that key learnings and best practices are documented, synthesized, reported, disseminated, and used to make timely adjustments to the program.
- Coordinate closely partners to build cohesive measurement and results systems, fostering collaboration and engagement.
- Provide training as required to enhance data collection and analysis skills among external stakeholders and internal program staff.
- Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned by the COP.
Key Competencies Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, and at least six (6) years of professional work experience, including at least 5 years of relevant professional experience managing, monitoring, evaluating, and showcasing the learnings of complex development activities.
- Hands-on practical experience setting up and managing MEL systems for USAID programs and ability to coach and train others in their use
- Experienced with leading and designing baseline data collection and analysis for water/climate/environmental activities.
- Familiarity with USAID regulations, M&E reporting requirements and best practices.
- Experienced and/or familiar with the application of USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) approach to project design and implementation
- Experience in knowledge management and dissemination of research findings
- Familiarity with performance indicators and target setting
- Demonstrated expertise in engaging disparate stakeholders with varying perspectives and needs and facilitating stakeholder consultations and meetings.
- Demonstrated ability to be flexible and respond to emerging opportunities and overcome barriers.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Urdu are required.
- Proficiency in Pashto preferred.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion – Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
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