CLA/M&E Director, USAID, Advancing Protection and Care for Children in Adversity  

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.  

This Proposal Opportunity:

USAID’s APCCA strategy seeks to deliver better outcomes for children around the world who face significant deprivation and danger and provides a shared basis for continued evidence-based, and collaborative action. The APCCA strategy is made up of three strategic objectives: 1) ‘Build Strong Beginnings’; 2) ‘Put Family First’; and 3) ‘Protect Children from Violence’. This position specifically revolves around objective 2 ‘Put Family First’ and supporting those most vulnerable children who are, or are at risk of, living outside of family care by promoting, funding, and supporting nurturing, loving, protective, and permanent family care.

*This is an anticipated project, and all positions are contingent upon award from USAID. *  

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Provide technical leadership in Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) and Monitoring, Evaluation (M&E) to capture and communicate program results, as well as ensure high-quality, timely, valid, and verifiable data collection, reporting, analysis and learning.
Work with the M&E team to design project Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Plan and data systems to track program progress against indicators and ensuring that all data and data analysis of project activity outcomes, impacts, and results presented accurately and in a timely manner in all USAID reporting and tracking tools and reports.
Design and operationalize a project CLA approach by leading its implementation as per the M&E plan and regularly share the same with the donor as part of progress reporting
Work closely with technical leads to ensure M&E inputs are both informed by technical staff and that adaptive management via CLA is occurring and results are feeding in to workplan sessions with key stakeholders.
Develop/adapt and apply tools and curricula to build M&E capacity of key program stakeholders such as national and district government and community organizations to collect and report quality data up to district and national levels.
Oversee data quality work and related M&E strengthening within the program including RDQAs
Supervise the MEL team as well as consultants (i.e. data collectors, programmers, evaluation experts, etc.)
Write technical reports and present technical activities both internally and externally to high-level stakeholders
Serve as a member of the senior leadership team of the program and support the Chief of Party in oversight of staff
Work with the Chief of Party and other project staff to continuously refine processes by integrating lessons learned and best practices
Any and all other project-related tasks as required by the Chief of Party and Palladium HQ

Key Competencies Required:

Experience as a data-driven adaptive management leader, with experience infusing MEL approaches on large development projects to drive program results and learning
Experience with monitoring, evaluating, and learning on a USAID project including setting up, managing, and training others on MEL systems.
Demonstrated quantitative or mixed-method and analytical skills and ability to articulate technical information clearly and effectively to both technical and nontechnical audiences Master’s degree relevant field required.
Experience in data review and data use including adaptive management.
Experience working for large donor organizations such as USAID preferred
Strong oral and written communications skills in English, and ability to work with partners and USAID.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in team-based environment, supervise a professional team and ability to interact with a variety of technical specialists.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.  

Should you require any adjustments or accommodation to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss. 

Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse.  All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.