Job at IWEI Kano
MONITORING, EVALUATION & LEARNING LEAD RECRUITMENT
Organization: Isa Wali Empowerment Initiative (IWEI)
Position: Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Lead
Location: Kano, Nigeria
Reports To: Programmes Manager
Supervises: MEL staff and volunteers within the MEL Department
Isa Wali Empowerment Initiative (IWEI) is a women-led non-profit organization with 16 years of experience empowering women and girls. The organization works to dismantle systemic barriers to justice, promote gender equity, and expand access to legal, educational and livelihood opportunities for women, girls and children in underserved communities.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The MEL Lead will drive IWEI’s organization-wide Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning framework across its three thematic pillars:
- Quality Education
- Protection & Justice
- Livelihood Support
The role focuses on generating rigorous, rights-based evidence while ensuring data collection is safe, ethical, age-appropriate and rooted in the lived realities of programme participants.
The MEL Lead will also strengthen organizational learning by turning evidence into decisions, community feedback into programme improvements, and results into clear and credible reporting for donors and partners.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- MEL Framework and Design
Develop and lead the organization-wide MEL framework, indicators, logframes and results frameworks, ensuring they capture both programme reach and rights-based outcomes.
- Evaluations and Assessments
Lead or commission baseline, midline and endline evaluations and manage external evaluators and consultants while ensuring methodological quality and compliance with ethical and safeguarding standards.
- Safe and Ethical Data Collection
Develop age- and gender-appropriate tools for surveys, interviews and focus group discussions, incorporating informed consent and child-appropriate assent.
Ensure confidential and secure handling of data involving minors, survivors and other participants requiring additional safeguarding.
- Data Collection, Analysis and Reporting
Lead data collection, quality assurance and analysis across programmes, including disaggregation by age, sex, disability and location.
Prepare high-quality internal and donor reports and track donor KPIs and results frameworks.
Manage digital data collection platforms and reporting dashboards.
- Programme Learning and Adaptive Management
Work with programme teams to use MEL findings in programme design, adaptive management and community feedback mechanisms.
Facilitate learning sessions and document lessons learned and good practices.
- Capacity Building and Safeguarding Feedback
Build MEL capacity among programme staff, Change Agents and Paralegals, including ethical and survivor-centred data practices.
Maintain a confidential, child-accessible feedback and complaints mechanism and ensure safeguarding concerns are escalated appropriately.
- External Representation and Budget Input
Represent IWEI in donor MEL calls, M&E communities of practice and relevant external forums.
Provide MEL-related cost estimates for enumerators, transportation and data collection tools for proposals and programme budgets.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- University degree or equivalent in Statistics, Social Sciences, International Development or a related field.
- Minimum of 3 years of professional MEL experience with demonstrated ability to coordinate or lead MEL processes.
- Strong knowledge of Theory of Change, logframes, results frameworks, indicator development and MEL planning.
- Experience with both quantitative and qualitative research methods, including surveys, statistical analysis, FGDs, KIIs, Most Significant Change and/or Outcome Harvesting.
- Ability to build and troubleshoot digital data collection tools such as KoboToolbox, ODK and CommCare.
- Experience establishing data quality assurance systems, including spot checks and data verification protocols.
- Experience managing field data across multiple locations or states.
- Demonstrated experience reporting against institutional donor frameworks such as UNICEF, USAID or similar UN/bilateral donors.
- Experience designing or managing safe and ethical data collection involving minors and/or survivors of abuse or exploitation.
- Knowledge of informed consent/assent procedures and confidential feedback mechanisms.
- Basic data visualization and dashboarding skills, with Excel required. Power BI or Tableau is an advantage.
- Fluency in Hausa and English.
ADDED ADVANTAGE
A Master’s degree in a relevant field and membership of a professional M&E body will be an advantage.
FEMALE CANDIDATES
Female candidates who meet the requirements are strongly encouraged to apply.
APPLICATION
Interested and qualified candidates should complete the online application form.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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