Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Expert (Energy Access, Ethiopia)

About the role

Allied Talent Partners, a Three Cairns Group initiative, is recruiting a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Expert for a national energy-access agenda in Ethiopia. The role establishes and strengthens an integrated results and performance-management system that links commitments, reforms, projects and financing with validated evidence, early warning and corrective action across government institutions and delivery partners. It sits under a Delivery Unit Coordinator with ministry and Steering Committee oversight.

Key responsibilities

• Set up an integrated MEL and adaptive-management system covering results, commitments, milestones, financing, projects and reforms, integrating existing institutional systems where possible
• Submit an inception report within two weeks of signing, then a verified indicator inventory, baselines and data-source matrix within 30 days
• Agree the results framework, indicator protocols and commitment tracker by day 60, with a theory of change, annual and 2030 targets and status tracking
• Produce the first validated performance dashboard by day 90, and operationalize data submission and monitoring by six months
• Track energy-access, generation, network, off-grid, clean-cooking, utility, investment and reform performance, and produce monthly, quarterly and annual reports, decision briefs and action trackers
• Coordinate baseline, mid-term, thematic and final evaluations, learning reviews, knowledge products and capacity building, and strengthen MEL focal-point networks

Required profile

• At least 8 years of progressively responsible professional experience; MEL/M&E, results-based management, national development, public-sector performance or development-partner program backgrounds preferred
• Knowledge of results frameworks, theory of change, logical frameworks, KPI development, evaluation and performance monitoring
• Master's degree or higher in Monitoring and Evaluation, Economics, Development Economics, Statistics, Public Policy, Development Studies, Energy Economics, Engineering, Public Administration, Data Science or a related field
• Ability to design auditable reporting and commitment trackers, work with geospatial specialists and monitor utility reliability (SAIDI/SAIFI)

Required skills

• Data management, quality assurance and statistical analysis; performance dashboards and risk and knowledge management
• Excel and Power BI; SQL, database systems, KoboToolbox/ODK, GIS and R/Stata/SPSS/Python are advantages

The assignment is full-time, based in the host energy ministry in Addis Ababa, with domestic and occasional international travel. The contract starts as soon as possible, runs for an initial 12 months and is renewable for a further year; the maximum workload is 220 working days per year.