MEL Lead, WISH Dividend, Policy & Systems
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Palladium Group
- Career category: Monitoring & Evaluation /MEAL
- Job type: Job
- Organisation type: Consultancy
- Remote option: Not Specified
- Right to work requirements: Not specified
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Not specified
- Location: Kenya
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.
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.
Background/Programme Information:
The Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH)-Dividend programme is FCDO’s flagship sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) investment in Africa, with three components: WISH2, Policy and Systems (P&S), and Evidence and Learning.
The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Lead will oversee and drive MEL across P&S, including strengthening MEL strategies, tools, and processes; overseeing progress against the programme’s logframe; supporting Country Leads to collect, quality assure, and report evidence and data; and implement the problem-driven iterative adaptation process, particularly “pause and reflect” learning sessions across countries. The MEL Lead will also serve as the key liaison with the WISH Dividend Evidence and Learning supplier to ensure alignment across the wider programme. The role reports to the Team Leader and provides oversight of any MEL-related consultants or country-level data collection inputs, as required.
Key Experience and Skills
The Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH)-Dividend programme is FCDO’s flagship sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) investment in Africa, with three components: WISH2, Policy and Systems (P&S), and Evidence and Learning.
The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Lead will oversee and drive MEL across P&S, including strengthening MEL strategies, tools, and processes; overseeing progress against the programme’s logframe; supporting Country Leads to collect, quality assure, and report evidence and data; and implement the problem-driven iterative adaptation process, particularly “pause and reflect” learning sessions across countries. The MEL Lead will also serve as the key liaison with the WISH Dividend Evidence and Learning supplier to ensure alignment across the wider programme. The role reports to the Team Leader and provides oversight of any MEL-related consultants or country-level data collection inputs, as required.
Key Experience and Skills
- Advanced professional experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning for complex, multi-country donor-funded programmes, preferably for FCDO and within the domain of TA.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing MEL frameworks, results frameworks, theories of change, logframes, indicators and performance measurement systems for adaptive programmes.
- Strong experience leading routine monitoring, data collection, verification, quality assurance, analysis and reporting across multiple workstreams, partners and country teams.
- Proven ability to oversee or support evaluations, reviews, learning studies and evidence generation using qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods approaches.
- Experience translating MEL data into practical insights, recommendations and learning products that inform adaptive management, programme improvement and strategic decision-making.
- Experience in sexual and reproductive health and rights, health systems strengthening, demographic transition, or another closely related technical area would be highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of donor reporting requirements and performance management approaches, ideally including FCDO standards, annual reviews, value for money reporting and evidence pack preparation.
- Experience supporting the design or use of dashboards, data visualisation tools and management information systems to improve real-time performance tracking and data use.
- Ability to build MEL capacity of staff, partners and consultants through training, mentoring, guidance and the development of practical tools and templates.
- Experience working effectively across consortia, technical partners and externally contracted evaluators, with the ability to coordinate inputs and maintain coherence across programme components.
- Strong knowledge of data protection, ethical data collection, safeguarding considerations and context-sensitive approaches to evidence generation and knowledge sharing.
- Excellent analytical, writing and communication skills, including the ability to synthesise complex information clearly for different audiences through reports, briefs, presentations and learning outputs.
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