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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
BRAC International is a leading non-profit organisation with a mission to empower people and communities facing poverty, illiteracy, disease, and social injustice. Founded in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, BRAC is the world's largest non-governmental development organisation and operates in 15 countries across Asia and Africa today. BRAC designs proven, scalable solutions that equip people with the support and confidence they need to achieve their potential. BRAC's institutional expertise across programs, including health, agriculture, microfinance, education, and youth empowerment, is reaching over 100 million people in the Global South.
About the AIM Programme
The Mastercard Foundation Accelerating Impact for Young Women in Partnership with BRAC (AIM) program is an initiative designed to equip 2 million adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) with age-appropriate entrepreneurship, employability, and life skills training, as well as the tools to start and scale their businesses. AIM applies BRAC's globally recognised evidence-based approach to help individuals improve their lives and livelihoods.
The program utilises BRAC's proven models, incorporating microfinance, youth empowerment, agriculture, and skills development to enhance lives and livelihoods. The “best-of-BRAC” approach, drawn from the earlier stated programmatic models shown to achieve positive impact through rigorous research, is scalable and cost-effective. The overarching goal of the recently redesigned AIM partnership is to improve the quality of life for 2 million AGYW (aged 12 to 35) across seven African countries (Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda) by December 2033.
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The program is currently being implemented in five African countries: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Ghana. AIM's expansion into Kenya is planned for 2027. This partnership is part of the Mastercard Foundation’s Young Africa Works strategy, which aims to enable 30 million young Africans to access dignified and fulfilling work by 2030, with 70 per cent of these young individuals being women.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
The Monitoring & Learning Manager will lead the Ghana country M&L team, ensuring effective monitoring and learning processes across BRAC Ghana's programs. This role involves analysing regular monitoring data using quantitative and qualitative methods and generating reports for country leadership and program teams to support evidence-based decision-making. The M&L Manager will oversee the implementation of the country’s monitoring and learning systems, ensuring data quality, effective data management, and adherence to the relevant policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Additionally, s/he will play a key role in fostering a culture of collaboration and learning within the program teams. The M&L Manager will also support programmatic decision-making by providing strategic and operational insights and by advancing fundraising through data-driven reporting, assessments, and proposal development, ensuring alignment with donor requirements and organisational priorities.
Technical Leadership Responsibilities
- Provide leadership in managing and implementing Monitoring & Learning (M&L) activities throughout relevant project cycles, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in alignment with BRAC International’s M&L policies, procedures, practices, and reporting guidelines.
- Ensure country teams utilise appropriate Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) systems and tools.
- Provide strategic direction for developing and maintaining M&E systems and implementing new initiatives at the country level.
- Collaborate with the senior management team to identify and pursue strategic opportunities for program expansion.
- Lead mandated monitoring activities and assessments.
- Ensure the quality of collected data by managing tools and methods to assess data accuracy across all indicators.
- Organise and oversee data quality assessments, jointly develop corrective measures and action plans, and follow up on the action plans.
- Contribute to donor reports by providing high-quality project data interpretation and report inputs.
- Lead the M&L team in strategically preparing and reviewing M&E calendars and work plans.
- Ensure the M&L team actively participates in joint monitoring visits.
- Support BI’s digital programmatic activity reporting and monitoring platform by ensuring necessary support at the country level. Maintain strong collaboration with the country IT, BI IT, and T4D teams.
- Support is needed to conduct pause-and-reflect sessions to promote adaptive management and document the lessons learnt for program design and implementation in collaboration with the knowledge management focal point.
- Orient new program staff on the key M&L resources.
- Provide mentoring and capacity-building support to staff to enhance their skills and ensure the achievement of annual performance and development goals.
- Any other tasks assigned by the supervisor
Safeguarding Responsibilities
- Ensure team members are protected from harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s safeguarding goals.
- Act as a key source of support, guidance, and expertise in safeguarding and establishing a safe working environment.
- Practice, promote, and endorse safeguarding policy among team members, and ensure safeguarding standards are implemented in every course of action.
- Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in the event of any reportable incident and encourage others to do the same.
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Required Skills or Experience
EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- A university degree in Social Science, Social Studies, Development Studies, Statistics, Economics/Methods, or equivalent experience in monitoring and evaluating programs is required.
- A minimum of 5 years' work experience in project/programme MERL is required, with a preference for M&E in youth, empowerment, SRHR, education, and livelihood programs.
- Must have extensive experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection methods and analysis
- Experienced in establishing and managing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems.
- Ability to organise, interpret, and present information effectively in both oral and written forms for diverse audiences, offering solid analysis to support sound decision-making.
- Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills, with high proficiency in communication, presentation, and reporting.
- Advanced computer skills, including proficiency in analytical software such as Excel, SPSS, STATA, or R, as well as data visualisation tools.
- Strong analytical and organisational skills.
- Familiarity with web-based survey tools, such as Google Forms, ODK, Kobo, or CommCare, is desirable.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to thrive in a multicultural team environment.
- Results-oriented, capable of working under pressure and meeting tight deadlines.
- Experience in supervising teams.
- Prior experience with donor-funded or development projects is an advantage.
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