MEL Specialist - CCRP

The MEL Specialist is responsible for developing and implementing the project’s monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) system, including managing the MIS and strengthening partner capacity to improve programme effectiveness. The role ensures integration of project systems with national platforms and oversees effective data management in collaboration with relevant partners.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and manage the project’s MEL framework, including indicators, tools, reporting templates, and data collection systems aligned with project objectives and outcomes.
• Track project activities, outputs, outcomes, milestones, and targets against the approved work plan to ensure effective implementation and results delivery.
• Provide timely, accurate, and credible data to donors, management, partners, and stakeholders to demonstrate effective and efficient use of project resources.
• Lead and coordinate baseline, midline, endline, thematic, and cohort-based evaluations to assess project relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability.
• Serve as the technical focal point for external consultants, supporting evaluation design, TOR development, procurement inputs, sampling validation, inception processes, and review of evaluation tools and protocols.
• Oversee data collection processes, ensure adherence to agreed methodologies, maintain data quality and consistency, safeguard ethical standards, and ensure secure data storage and handover.
• Support analysis of changes across different participant or community cohorts over time, interpret findings against the project logframe and theory of change, and generate evidence for decision-making.
• Facilitate learning processes by synthesising findings, documenting lessons learned, identifying best practices, and promoting evidence-based adjustments to project design and implementation.
• Strengthen the capacity of implementing partners and project staff on MEL systems, data collection, reporting protocols, knowledge management, and the use of evidence for decision-making.
• Serve as the project’s knowledge management focal point, manage evidence repositories, disseminate learning products, support reporting, and ensure alignment with Plan International Ghana and global MERL standards, including safeguarding, child protection, and gender equality requirements.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in statistics, measurement, planning, monitoring & evaluation, development research, or other relevant fields.
• A minimum of 7 years’ experience in program planning, monitoring, evaluation, learning and research of complex development projects, and development and implementation of child protection frameworks, child labour measurements and education data.
• Proven expertise and experience in developing and implementing Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) systems, including Management Information Systems (MIS) and dashboards.
• Knowledge in women’s economic empowerment programming and working with different stakeholders (the private sector, government, and non-profit organisations) is an advantage.
• Passion for gender-transformative programming and women’s economic empowerment, with personal values aligned to Plan International’s mission.
• Demonstrable experience in implementing MEL frameworks within multi-million-dollar institutional grants, particularly in areas such as child labour and protection, gender transformation, educational development, and community integration.
• Strong understanding and proven application of project cycle management principles.
• Proficient in data design, entry, and analysis using Microsoft Excel and Access, as well as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint; working knowledge of statistical software (e.g. SPSS) is an added advantage.
• Experience with SAP is considered an asset.

Skills

• Monitoring Evaluation Learning systems
• Management Information Systems
• Dashboard Development
• Programme Planning
• Child Protection Frameworks
• Child Labour Measurement
• Education Data Analysis
• Women's Economic Empowerment
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Gender Transformative Programming
• MEL Framework Implementation
• Institutional Grant Management
• Project Cycle Management
• Data Design
• Data Entry
• Data Analysis
• MS Excel
• MS Access
• MS Word
• MS PowerPoint
• SPSS
• SAP

Languages

English