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

Project Background

Palladium International, LLC is implementing the $250 Million, 5-year USAID CATALYZE contract which offers a facilitated partnership model that will craft solutions to crowd in $2 Billion in blended finance (i.e., blended concessional and commercial finance) to USAID partner countries; it can work in any development sector or region. Launched in October 2019, CATALYZE is a buy-in mechanism that allows USAID Bureaus and Missions to efficiently deploy investment facilitation solutions that respond to the needs of specific sectors, issues, and geographies.

USAID CATALYZE Market Systems for Growth (MS4G) focuses on creating transformative outcomes in the food security and WASH sectors to benefit all Ethiopian people. To achieve these goals, the activity engages youth, mobilizes capital, increases access to finance, connects enterprises to markets, and supports stakeholders to self-advocate towards policy change which will promote opportunities for the private sector community. The project supports activities in Addis Ababa and secondary cities.

To strengthen the private sector in the food security and WASH sectors, MS4G uses a market-based approach to enhance enterprises’ performance, product/service delivery, and inclusion. The activities are designed to build institutional capacity, enhance knowledge and skill transfers through workforce development initiatives, advance the business enabling environment, accelerate digital transformations and scale best practices to increase productivity and quality.

Location: The position is based in Palladium’s Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Office

Estimated Start Date: This assignment is expected to commence October 1, 2024.

Reporting and Supervision:

• The MIS Assistant will report to CATALYZE MEL Advisor/Manager. S/he will support development and implementation of the MEL database, support the data verification process and system as well as update the MEL database based on the MEL framework.

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.

• Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss.

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 come into contact with Palladium 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.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Specific responsibilities of MS4G’s MIS Assistant include, but are not limited to:

• Assist the MEL Advisor/Manager/team in the development of database by using Excel and other advanced applications.

• Work with the technical staff and the MEL Analyst to develop reports in the databases that provide insights and learnings on the various activities that are being implemented.

• Assist in the management of MS4G database with the collaboration of senior MEL analyst, partners and staff to facilitate updated data insight.

• Provide technical support for the MEL team in the developing automated reporting tools including various databases.

• Collect and collate data to be entered into databases from technical staff. Analyses data and provide accurate and timely reports on performance indicators.

• Work closely with the MEL team including the MEL advisor, senior MEL analyst, and MEL assistant to ensure MIS requirements are identified and addressed.

• Work on data entry and cleaning in the M&E databases and spreadsheet applications.

• Conduct post-data entry queries regularly to identify data quality errors and missing variables.

• Ability to design graphic and/or infographics visualization.

• Comply with Palladium’s data security and integrity policies.

• Document database structures, processes and user guides.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management information system and/or related area of field.

• Technical skills, including ability to design and develop databases using Excel and Smarsheet, with knowledge in using ODK  ,Kobo ToolBox, etc.

• Previous work experience in designing databases on USAID donor projects is desired.

• General understanding of monitoring, evaluation and learning systems.

• Experience in developing a database that can be used to generate updated data insights.

• Knowledge of data security and integrity policies.

• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to compile and interpret project data.

How to Apply

We invite all candidates meeting the required qualifications to submit their resume/CV to THIS LINK