Project Officer-Implementation and Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL)
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Company Overview Palladium is an international company working across 90 countries to create positive impact for communities, businesses, societies, and economies. In Ghana, Palladium manages the USAID-funded PROPEL Health project to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy development and implementation; adequate, predictable, and sustainable health financing; enhanced government stewardship, transparency, and accountability; and use of evidence-based advocacy approaches at global, national, and subnational levels to promote best practices. It focuses on family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), and the integration of FP/RH with HIV and maternal and child health (MCH) with a lens to enable economic empowerment, positive youth development. Our transformational technical strategy prioritizes localizing policy, advocacy, financing, and governance (PAFG) leadership, technical assistance, and capacity development to enhance resilience and sustainability. The project actively supports USAID’s localization strategy by drawing on local actors to co-create our country designs and lead implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
Scope of Work The Project Officer – Implementation and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) will work closely with the Country Director, and other members of the PROPEL Health Ghana team, locally and at HQ, in supporting teams to develop and implement quality project implementation and robust M&E systems that generate high quality data for performance improvement. The Project Officer – Implementation and MEL will assist the team with the development and implementation of country-level M&E plans in accordance with the global PROPEL and capture and report on project indicators and USAID requirements. The Program Officer- Implementation and MEL will provide technical, administrative, and logistical support to the project, including organization of meetings, workshops, and trainings, communications, and data collection. In addition, he/she will support in planning project activities, work to keep projects on track, and collaborate with different units to ensure timely completion of all deliverables.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with PROPEL Health staff to support project monitoring, evaluation, and learning efforts, including collaborating with country and HQ-level activity leads to identify and document project results in accordance with PROPEL Health project indicators.
- Support the coordination of technical, administrative, and logistical activities as approved in the project annual work plan.
- Work with activity leads to review results on a quarterly basis, verify supporting documentation, and submit them to the PROPEL Health management information system (MIS) platform; and provide country-level specifications for the MIS platform hosted on Knack.
- Support report writing for quarterly reports to USAID and the development of project-wide semi-annual\annual reports.
- Report PROPEL Health data into mission-specific management information system along with needed reports and other supporting documentation.
- Support workplan development and the design of the corresponding monitoring, evaluation and learning plan.
- Conduct data collection and analysis. This may include supporting PROPEL Health staff and government counterparts to (1) carry out focus group discussions and key informant interviews or surveys (e.g., to collect to beneficiary feedback); (2) conduct secondary data analysis from DHIS2 and other related data platforms; (3) conducting modelling projections.
- Support drafting activity briefs, PPTs, success stories, blogs, nuggets, or other items to communicate project updates and results to decision makers in concise formats.
- Oversee and assist with the dissemination of advocacy briefs, data, research evidence, and other relevant information materials to key stakeholders to advance understanding and action on population and development issues.
- Support the implementation of the project and ensure that team members are carrying out their tasks efficiently. eBjPbES BIpnb
- Monitor, track and evaluate activities to ensure they are meeting requisite standards, adhere to budgets, and meet deadlines.
Required Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in public health, social science, development, or related field; Master’s degree is preferred.
Knowledge and Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, including understanding of capturing and monitoring performance indicators preferred.
- 5+ years in providing technical, administrative, and logistical support for projects, including organization of meetings, workshops, and trainings, communications, and data collection.
- Demonstrated experience implementing USAID or other donor funded projects.
- Understanding of the USAID project cycle, policies, regulations, monitoring and evaluation methodologies, and reporting requirements
- Experience analyzing data and presenting information to decision-makers. Experience with DHIS2 is a plus.
- Experience using data management systems and dashboards or other data visualization tools.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, ability to draft quality briefs, reports, training/facilitation agendas, training PPTs and other technical documents.
- Understanding of governmental structures, processes and ability to engage key public sector stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal and networking skills, ability to work within a cross-cultural and virtual team.
- Ability to work well under pressure and skilled in change management and problem-solving skills.
- This position is open to people located in and legally permitted to work in Ghana only.
Languages: Fluency in English is required. Other Desirable Skills: Ability to meet rigorous timelines, track results and effectively manage multi-stakeholder relationships, detail-oriented with strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills. Self-starter with demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and independently. Disclaimer: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.
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