Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Organization: Education Development Trust
Deadline: 29 Jun 2025
Job Description
About the role
Education Development Trust are looking for a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Manager to lead and manage the monitoring, research and learning activities for the implementation of our exciting new education and skills programme in Ethiopia. The programme will strengthen the relevance and quality of secondary education to ensure the successful transition of secondary students to tertiary education or the world of work by equipping them with relevant skills, knowledge and attitude through enhanced implementation of the competency-based curriculum.
The MEAL Manager’s role is to lead and manage the monitoring, research and learning activities related to the implementation of the programme. This will include developing and updating the MEL strategy, operating the day-to-day monitoring of the implementation and ensuring that the outputs for the components are met and that impact is achieved. The role will entail extensive collaboration with both central and regional teams to improve data collection, data management, analysis, monitoring, evaluation and research, all of which underpin the successful delivery of the programme.
Key qualifications
- Management experience in monitoring and evaluation of development programmes
- Experience of designing, managing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems on large-scale national level programmes
- Experience of working with data platforms, databases and other technologies to capture, organise and analyse data
- Experience with statistical packages (e.g. SPSS, STATA Atlas.ti or NVivo) and familiarity with IT applications to support MEAL, visualization and information management
- Experience of M&E reporting for Mastercard Foundation
- Advertising Salary: US$1950 – US$2150 gross monthly salary plus benefits
- Medical insurance for employee and family
- Provident Fund contribution
- Transport Allowance
About the organisation
At Education Development Trust, we improve school systems at scale; we partner with governments around the world to help turn ambitious, visionary education policy into reality. We invest annually in our programme of education research and this evidence underpins our work and informs policy and practice around the world. We have a long-established presence in Africa – running programmes since 1992 – and have worked with a range of governments, donor agencies and partners to improve education across the continent, providing short-term, expert consultancy and delivering long-term, national education programmes. We have specialist expertise in sustainable school system reform at scale – from improving literacy and numeracy outcomes, to large-scale teacher training and strengthening the capacity of national ministries. We are experienced in leading complex programmes in challenging environments and we also work with like-minded organisations to ensure we maximise our impact.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal record checks. Education Development Trust also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, and we may request information from relevant job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual misconduct, including harassment, during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
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