MEL Specialist - CCRP

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

The MEL Specialist is responsible for developing and implementing the project’s monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) system, including managing the MIS and strengthening partner capacity to improve programme effectiveness. The role ensures integration of project systems with national platforms (CLMRS and SWIMS) and oversees effective data management in collaboration with relevant partners. Additionally, the Specialist supports alignment with Plan International’s MERL frameworks, contributes to coordination and quality assurance processes, and promotes learning, evidence sharing, and standardisation of tools and reporting across projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and manage the project’s MEL framework, including indicators, tools, reporting templates, and data collection systems aligned with project objectives and outcomes.
• Track project activities, outputs, outcomes, milestones, and targets against the approved work plan to ensure effective implementation and results delivery.
• Provide timely, accurate, and credible data to donors, management, partners, and stakeholders to demonstrate effective and efficient use of project resources.
• Lead and coordinate baseline, midline, endline, thematic, and cohort-based evaluations to assess project relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability.
• Serve as the technical focal point for external consultants, supporting evaluation design, TOR development, procurement inputs, sampling validation, inception processes, and review of evaluation tools and protocols.
• Oversee data collection processes, ensure adherence to agreed methodologies, maintain data quality and consistency, safeguard ethical standards, and ensure secure data storage and handover.
• Support analysis of changes across different participant or community cohorts over time, interpret findings against the project logframe and theory of change, and generate evidence for decision-making.
• Facilitate learning processes by synthesising findings, documenting lessons learned, identifying best practices, and promoting evidence-based adjustments to project design and implementation.
• Strengthen the capacity of implementing partners and project staff on MEL systems, data collection, reporting protocols, knowledge management, and the use of evidence for decision-making.
• Serve as the project’s knowledge management focal point, manage evidence repositories, disseminate learning products, support reporting, and ensure alignment with Plan International Ghana and global MERL standards, including safeguarding, child protection, and gender equality requirements.

About You

We are looking to recruit person (s) with:

• Advanced degree in statistics, measurement, planning, monitoring & evaluation, development research, or other relevant fields.
• A minimum of 7 years’ experience in program planning, monitoring, evaluation, learning and research of complex development projects, and development and implementation of child protection frameworks, child labour measurements and education data.
• Proven expertise and experience in developing and implementing Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) systems, including Management Information Systems (MIS) and dashboards.
• Knowledge in women’s economic empowerment programming and working with different stakeholders (the private sector, government, and non-profit organisations) is an advantage
• Passion for gender-transformative programming and women’s economic empowerment, with personal values aligned to Plan International’s mission.
• Demonstrable experience in implementing MEL frameworks within multi-million-dollar institutional grants, particularly in areas such as child labour and protection, gender transformation, educational development, and community integration.
• Strong understanding and proven application of project cycle management principles.
• Proficient in data design, entry, and analysis using Microsoft Excel and Access, as well as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint; working knowledge of statistical software (e.g. SPSS) is an added advantage.
• Experience with SAP is considered an asset.

Location: Eastern/Ashanti Region

Type of Role: Fixed-Term

Closing Date: 15th July 2026

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.