Global Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer job at PEAS | Apply Now

We are PEAS. We are a fast growing not-for-profit with the mission to expand access to sustainably delivered quality secondary education across Africa.
We do this in three ways:
PEAS Schools – For the past fifteen years, we have operated 36 high quality, inclusive secondary schools in hard-to-reach areas: 30 in Uganda and 6 in Zambia, educating more than 15,000 young people, 53% of which are girls.
PEAS Partner Schools – We support 14 basic government schools in the Upper West region of Ghana to strengthen school improvement, in partnership with a local community-based organisation. These schools educate more than 2,200 children and young people, 51% of which are girls. We are looking to grow this programme later this year.

PEAS Government Partnerships – Drawing on our practical experience, we work in close partnership with the government in all 3 countries to incorporate contextualized best practice and learning from PEAS Schools and PEAS Partner Schools into government schools and systems to ensure as many young Africans as possible can benefit from a relevant and high quality basic and secondary education. We are working with over 300 government schools across the 3 countries
Our new strategy is focused around a period of rapid growth. During this period, we aim to grow our school networks, launch in a new country and expand our wider impact by strengthening education systems. To be achieve this, we need to be working as efficiently and effectively as possible. We are looking for a finance and admin assistant/officer that can help us do this so that we can work towards achieving our exciting and challenging ambitions.
The Opportunity
As Global Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Office, you will support PEAS country level MEL teams in fulfilling their learning objectives in relation to delivering our system strengthening technical assistance programme to non-PEAS schools. The MEL Officer will be part of the Global Technical Team, and will contribute to the team’s primary objectives to bolster the efficacy and impact of the organisation's initiatives across Uganda, Zambia, and Ghana.
We are looking for an individual with significant MEL experience, ideally in relation to education programmes in low resource settings of Uganda, Zambia, and/or Ghana. Experience in fulfilling institutional donor requirements is desirable, ideally to include USAID and FCDO.
To be successful in this role you will have strong communication skills, demonstrating the ability to guide, motivate and support members of the wider global MEL team. You will be highly experienced in working with data, and have strong data analysis skills. You will be part of a hard- working, growing and highly effective team who support one another to achieve impact. Our team are united by our vision, values and desire to give the highest possible number of students the best possible education and life outcomes.

Working at PEAS
No matter what the role, team, context or country, we are all guided by our values, intrinsically motivated and energetic. We work collaboratively across functions, facing the challenges of balancing access, quality and sustainability together to deliver the best quality outcomes for students.
• Have impact - opportunity to really stretch yourself and contribute to having real impact in improving the life chances of all children through educational opportunity.