Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Adaptation Experts

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 ninety countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

This Opportunity:

Palladium is building our pool of qualified, experienced, and innovative international Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Adaptation Specialists. The specialists will provide technical leadership and training in all aspects of performance monitoring, evaluation, learning and adaptation for development. The work will focus primarily on the following sectors: Democratic Growth and Governance; Education, Economic Growth; Energy and the Environment; Health; WASH and cross cutting topics including inclusive development including gender and locally led development; organizational development, and training and facilitation.

Location:

The assignments are expected to be primarily in countries with a USAID presence. Some assignments may be based in Washington, D.C. Consultants may be based out of a variety of locations but note that Palladium will not provide visa sponsorship.

Reporting and Supervision:

The Technical Experts will report to the Senior Director of the Center of Technical Excellence and/or the Chief of Party of the Task Order assignment.

Illustrative Assignments Include:

• Provide technical leadership to develop a MELA framework and performance monitoring plans and indicators to capture project performance results.
• Lead evaluations and assessments or serve as a member of an evaluation team to conduct performance and impact.
• Advise missions and implementing partners (often local organizations) to design, implement, and use the evidence from their MELA activities ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into a project's implementation to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes.
• Provide technical assistance on creating and using knowledge management systems and documenting and disseminating program successes and challenges to adapt programs as needed.

Key Competencies Required:

• Completion of educational studies in a development field, social science, economics, or relevant discipline; doctoral degree in relevant fields is a plus.
• Proven experience in leading USAID monitoring, evaluation, learning and adaptation work in the relevant field of expertise with proven results.
• Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, data collection design and implementation, data quality assessments, data analysis, data visualization and use, report writing, USAID's Program cycle are highly recommended.
• Ability to work as part of a team. High emotional intelligence
• Full professional written and spoken proficiency in English. Other languages such as French and Spanish are a plus.

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.

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 meet Palladium staff 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.