Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist (600 Working Days) at Palladium Group

Project Overview and Role:

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

Palladium is currently shortlisted for the upcoming EU services contract, Technical Assistance for the Implementation of the EU Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU-SDGN) Programme Phase II. The Project will provide a key component of support under the upcoming EU-SDGN II programme, building on support provided under EU-SDGN (2017-2021) and earlier initiatives. The overall objective of the action is to foster a functioning pluralistic, inclusive, participatory and representative democracy in Nigeria.

The contract will focus on:

• Engendering the conditions for inclusive, transparent, credible, and peaceful elections and a more inclusive decision-making process with the meaningful participation of all sectors of society, including women, youth, and other marginalised groups.
• Collaborating with the technical team of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to provide capacity development support, technical assistance, policy and expert advice to the electoral management Body.
• Contributing to the implementation of the EU Electoral Observation Missions (EU EOM) recommendations, as well as EU EOM follow up mission recommendations.
• Supporting Monitoring and Evaluation as well as communication and visibility activities across the programme components.
• Technical assistance delivered under this contract will work towards achieving seven (7) key result areas of the overall EU-SDGN II programme, encompassing:
• Reinforcement of INEC’s institutional capacities, and strengthening of capacities for electoral administration, strategic planning and operations.
• Enhancement of INEC’s internal communication and external engagement with stakeholders.
• Enhancement of The Electoral Institute’s (TEI) capacities, and reinforcement of its research and training roles.
• Improvement of legal and policy framework for elections.
• Efficient incorporation, public acceptance, and ownership of technology innovations.
• Enhancement of INEC’s capacity to ensure a nationally consolidated voters register, and the provision of continuous registration.
• mprovement of capacities of selected State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs), including collaboration with INEC.

Duration: 60 months (01/05/2022 – 30/04/2027)

Under the overall strategic direction of the Team Leader, the Monitoring and Evaluation specialist will work closely with the technical team of the INEC Chairman, other officials of the commission and M&E officers of the other components of the programme. The Specialist will oversee the development of an integrated results framework, as well as other monitoring tools across the 6 components of the programme and ensure ongoing monitoring and evaluation and supervision of the M&E officers across the programme. 

Required Qualifications:

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum Requirement: At least a Master’s Degree (Academic level) in economics or other related social sciences.
• Preferred Requirement: Experience with EU funding instruments, preferably European Development Fund (EDF).
• Preferred Requirement: Membership of an international Monitoring and Evaluation Association.

General Professional Experience

• Minimum Requirement: Extensive experience developing results frameworks, logical frameworks, or similar tools for project design.
• Preferred Requirement: Experience in Institutional Needs Assessment techniques in both public & private institutions.
• Preferred Requirement: Experience in conducting training/capacity building to ensure knowledge transfer for addressing identified competency gaps.
• Preferred Requirement: Expertise in the Preparation of ToRs, Publication, Dissemination, Shortlisting applications, Evaluation of Experts CVs.

Specific Professional Experience

• Minimum Requirement: Extensive professional experience in a performance monitoring and evaluation role with an international development organisation or working on international development projects.
• Preferred Requirement: Experience in developing survey instruments, research-based methodologies including conducting focus group sessions, study design, and data analysis and impact evaluations.
• Preferred Requirement: Experience in developing M&E/Performance Frameworks for institutional Development Plans (incl. setting Long-term/Medium term goals, Targets, SMART Indicators etc) as well as corresponding Annual Work Plans.
• Preferred Requirement: Understanding of electoral processes would be an advantage.
• Preferred Requirement: Experience in development cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Preferred Requirement: Proven field research and report writing skills.