Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Lead Recruitment
Isa Wali Empowerment Initiative (IWEI) is a women-led non-profit organization with 16 years of experience empowering women and girls.
- IWEI is dedicated to dismantling systemic barriers to justice, promoting gender equity, and expanding access to legal, educational, and livelihood opportunities for women, girls, and children in underserved urban and rural communities.
- IWEI implements rights-based, community - driven programs, working closely with partners, movements, and institutions to advance gender justice and social accountability.
Job Purpose
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Lead ensures that IWEI's evidence generation is rigorous, rights-based, and rooted in the lived realities of the women, girls, and children we serve.
- This role designs and drives the organization - wide MEL framework across the three thematic pillars - Quality Education, Protection & Justice, and Livelihood Support - ensuring that data collection is safe, ethical, and age-appropriate for participants aged 7–24.
- Beyond tracking numbers, the MEL Lead builds a culture of learning:
- Turning evidence into decisions, community feedback into program adaptation, and program results into a compelling, honest account of IWEI's impact for donors and partners.
Location: Kano.
Reports to: Programmes Manager
Supervises: MEL staff and volunteers within the MEL department
Job Description
MEL Framework & Design
Design and lead the organization-wide MEL
- framework, ensuring indicators across all three thematic pillars capture both reach and rights-based outcomes for women, girls, and children.
- Design MEL frameworks, indicators, and
- log-frames to strengthen new project proposals, in coordination with Program
- Leads and the Executive Director.
- Evaluations & Assessments
- Lead or commission baseline, midline, and
- endline evaluations for key projects, ensuring methodological rigor and alignment with donor and organizational learning needs.
- Manage external evaluators and consultants
- engaged for independent evaluations, ensuring quality assurance and adherence
- to IWEI's ethical and safeguarding standards.
Safe & Ethical Data Collection
Develop safe, age- and gender-appropriate data collection tools and methodologies - surveys, interviews, focus group discussions - that embed informed consent and child-appropriate assent protocols, and protect the dignity and confidentiality of survivors and other participants requiring additional safeguarding.
Ensure MEL data systems and storage - particularly records involving minors and survivors of abuse or exploitation - comply with data protection standards and are accessible only on a need-to-know basis.
Own and maintain IWEI's data protection and
consent protocol for program and participant data — distinct from HR's personnel data protocols — ensuring appropriate safeguards for information on minors and survivors.
Data Collection, Analysis & Reporting
Lead data collection, quality assurance, and
- analysis across all programs, disaggregating data by age, sex, disability, and location to surface intersectional patterns that inform more responsive programming.
- Prepare timely, high-quality internal and donor reports that translate data into clear, honest narratives of progress, Mchallenges, and impact.
- Track and report against donor-required KPIs
- and results frameworks, ensuring donor accountability requirements stay aligned with community-defined measures of success.
- Select, maintain, and troubleshoot IWEI's
- digital data collection platform(s) and reporting dashboards, ensuring staff are equipped to use them effectively.
Program Learning & Adaptive Management
Work closely with Program Leads and Project
- Officers to embed MEL findings directly into program design, adaptive management, and community feedback loops - ensuring evidence flows back to the communities that generated it, not only to donors.
- Champion organizational learning by facilitating knowledge-sharing sessions, documenting lessons learned, and promoting localized ownership of evidence across the team.
Capacity Building & Safeguarding Feedback
Build MEL capacity across program staff,
- Change Agents, and Paralegals, including training on ethical, safe, and survivor-centered data practices.
- Maintain a confidential, child-accessible
- feedback and complaints mechanism, and ensure any safeguarding concern surfaced
- through MEL processes is escalated immediately per IWEI's safeguarding policy.
External Representation & Budget Input
- Represent IWEI in donor MEL calls, sector
- M&E communities of practice, and relevant external forums to strengthen learning and visibility.
- Provide MEL-related cost estimates; including
- enumerator, transport, and data collection tool costs to inform proposal and program budgets.
About you/must-haves for the position
A minimum of a university degree or its equivalent in statistics, social sciences, international development, or a related field. Master's degree in a relevant field and membership of a relevant professional M&E body is a plus.
- A minimum of 3 years of professional MEL experience, with demonstrated ability to coordinate or lead MEL processes (e.g. managing a MEL framework, supervising data collection, or leading a reporting cycle).
- Solid grounding in MEL fundamentals: theory of change development, logframes/results frameworks, indicator design (especially disaggregated by sex, age, disability), and MEL plan development from scratch
- Comfort with both quantitative and qualitative methods - surveys and statistical analysis alongside FGDs, KIIs, and most - significant - change or outcome harvesting approaches'.
- Ability to build and troubleshoot digital data collection tools: KoboToolbox, ODK, CommCare, e.t.c
- Data quality assurance systems - spot-checks, data verification protocols, handling data from field officers across multiple states
- Demonstrated experience reporting against institutional donor frameworks (e.g. UNICEF, USAID, or similar UN/bilateral donors), including donor KPI tracking and results reporting.
- Direct experience designing or managing safe, ethical data collection involving minors and/or survivors of abuse or exploitation, including informed consent/assent protocols and confidential feedback mechanisms.
- Basic data visualization/dashboarding (Excel at minimum; Power BI or Tableau is a plus)
- Fluency in Hausa and English, with the ability to work directly with community-based persons.
- Female candidates who meet the criteria are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: Not Specified
How to Apply
Interested applicant can apply via this link
