Palladium Group Recruitment 2026: Team Lead, Country Lead, Etc. Jobs

Job Title: Country Lead, Nigeria – Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) Dividend, Policy & Systems Programme

Job ID: req25345
Location: Abuja

Position Details

• The Nigeria Country Lead (CL) will serve as the primary representative of the programme in-country and the principal relationship manager for engagement with FCDO Post and government.
• S/he will oversee the development and implementation of consecutive annual country workplans in alignment with FCDO in-country and government partners.
• Through their oversight of workplan TA activities and direct delivery, they will be responsible for the timely and high-quality achievement of deliverables, logframe targets, and institutionalisation and sustainability principles.
• They will likewise hold responsibility for financial management, including through the provision of high-quality inputs into forecasting, spend monitoring, and cost control measures.
• They will report directly to the Team Leader and work in close collaboration with other country CLs, P&S partners, and broader MEL, programme, and financial management colleagues.
• In this way, they form part of a unified, collaborative team that upholds the one-team approach across all WISH P&S countries.orm part of a unified, collaborative team that upholds the one-team approach across all WISH P&S countries.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

• In close consultation with government partners and FCDO in-country, design consecutive annual workplans (AWPs) based on problem-driven iterative adaptation principles; negotiate, revise, and finalise inputs to costed workplan activities/TAs following consultations.
• Facilitate effective collaboration between FCDO, government stakeholders and technical partners, ensuring that TA remains government-aligned while also responding to FCDO strategic priorities and evidence needs. Ensure that each TA contributes to sustainable change beyond the life of individual assignments.
• Provide technical and strategic leadership to translate AWPs into practice through the development of TA TORs, including articulating consultant requirements and institutionalisation and sustainability strategies. Ensure full review of TORs with FCDO post and government counterparts.
• Provide end-to-end technical oversight of all agreed AWP TAs, including ensuring progress towards all deliverables and logframe milestones. This includes maintaining a technical and financial tracker for all country activities (to be shared with FCDO), overseeing/managing short-term consultants, quality assuring all deliverables, and generally maintaining the highest standard of technical delivery from TA start to finish.
• Serve as the key liaison with FCDO post and national stakeholders, engaging each in the TA design, delivery, and closure process. This includes providing bi-weekly updates on AWP progress to FCDO and generally anticipating client needs, as well as carrying all government partners along the implementation process.
• Proactively collaborate with the other CLs, the Operations Team, and consortium partners to ensure synergy, learning, and adaptation across the programme.
• Represent WISH Dividend P&S at senior-level policy dialogues, donor coordination platforms and strategic forums, building trusted relationships with government officials, development partners and other key influencers.
• Track and mitigate all risks with the potential to affect TA delivery; adapt plans based on contextual changes and escalate to Team Leader as needed.
• Support the MEL, Knowledge Management, and Operations teams in any requisite data/information collection, technical and financial reporting, and identification of success stories.
• Be responsible for financial management, including forecasting, spend monitoring, and cost control measures, and hold direct accountability for country-level budget development, forecasting, expenditure management, and delivery of value for money in line with FCDO requirements.

Required Experience & Skills

• Significant demonstrated experience in the leadership and management of large, complex donor-funded programmes in Nigeria, with a preference for TA-based programmes in health (particularly with a demography focus), including for FCDO.
• Proven technical knowledge and understanding of demography/DT and SRHR in Nigeria, including key policy and systems bottlenecks in these areas.
• Proven understanding of donor compliance, reporting, and value for money requirements.
• Demonstrated experience engaging effectively with senior government stakeholders, donors, and partners in Nigeria; strength of government relationships and network a key asset.
• Strong track record of managing budgets and financial performance.
• Experience managing and working with multidisciplinary teams and consortium arrangements.

Essential Competencies:

• Ability to analyse and navigate complex political, institutional and stakeholder dynamics, identify opportunities for influence, and provide credible strategic advice to government and donor stakeholders.
• Strategic leadership: Ability to set direction, prioritise, and drive delivery in complex environments
  Programme management: Strong expertise in results-based management, adaptive programming, and risk management
• Financial acumen: Ability to manage budgets, forecasts, and financial risks effectively
  Stakeholder engagement: Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, with experience working at senior levels
• Partnership management: Ability to build and manage effective partnerships across diverse stakeholders
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, including reporting to donors
• Problem-solving and adaptability: Ability to navigate uncertainty and respond to changing contexts.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Lead, Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) Dividend, Policy & Systems

Job ID: req25348
Location: Abuja

Description

• The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Lead will oversee and drive MEL across P&S, including strengthening MEL strategies, tools, and processes; overseeing progress against the programme’s logframe; supporting Country Leads to collect, quality assure, and report evidence and data; and implement the problem-driven iterative adaptation process, particularly “pause and reflect” learning sessions across countries.
• The MEL Lead will also serve as the key liaison with the WISH Dividend Evidence and Learning supplier to ensure alignment across the wider programme. The role reports to the Team Leader and provides oversight of any MEL-related consultants or country-level data collection inputs, as required.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities
Monitoring and Reporting:

• Lead implementation and continuous improvement of the programme’s MEL strategy, systems, tools, and processes, ensuring they remain fit for purpose and support effective programme management, learning, and reporting.
• Own the programme logframe, including annual review and revision of targets and indicators, proactive tracking of progress throughout the year, and coordination of data collection, verification, and analysis.
• Oversee routine monitoring of TA activities through the P&S TA Tracker, working closely with Country Leads and partners to strengthen data quality, generate programme-level performance insights, and support evidence-based decision-making.
• Develop and maintain a fit-for-purpose results measurement approach for Window 3 technical assistance, including systems and tools to assess the quality, performance, and outcomes of short-term and on-demand support.
• Lead the production of routine quantitative and narrative results reporting, including quarterly, annual, and ad hoc reports for FCDO.
• Build MEL capacity across country teams and partners, providing guidance and support on MEL processes, reporting requirements, data quality standards, and evidence use.
• Work closely with Finance and Operations colleagues to strengthen the programme’s approach to value for money reporting and analysis.
• Ensure programme data is collected, analysed, and reported in line with FCDO requirements and programme commitments on gender equality and social inclusion, including appropriate disaggregation by gender, age, disability, and other relevant dimensions.

Evaluation:

• Lead the design and delivery of light-touch evaluations and assessments of programme interventions, particularly Small Bets, to generate evidence on effectiveness, scale-up, adapt, or discontinue decisions.
• Synthesise evidence and results from across programme countries to identify cross-cutting findings, emerging trends, and strategic insights.
• Coordinate with the WISH Dividend Evidence & Learning supplier to support programme-wide evaluation and evidence-generation activities.

Learning and Adaptive Management:

• Lead learning and adaptation processes across the programme, with a focus on the Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation approach; drive and facilitate routine cross-country Pause and Reflect processes to strengthen TA delivery and learning.
• Translate learning findings into actionable recommendations for the programme, FCDO, and government partners.
• Package and disseminate success stories for internal and external audiences.

Collaboration:

• Lead engagement with the WISH Evidence & Learning supplier, ensuring effective coordination across all MEL activities, contributing to programme-wide learning processes, and supporting relevant evaluation, operational research, and case study activities linked to P&S technical assistance.
• Maintain close collaboration with MEL counterparts at ONS and other consortium partners to align approaches, share learning, and ensure coherent reporting and evidence generation across jointly implemented activities.
• Lead the communication, dissemination, and uptake of programme evidence, lessons learned, and good practices, supporting cross-country learning and informing adaptation across the wider WISH Dividend programme.
• Other duties relevant to monitoring, evaluation, and learning as required.

Key Experience and Skills

• Advanced professional experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning for complex, multi-country donor-funded programmes, preferably for FCDO and within the domain of TA.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing MEL frameworks, results frameworks, theories of change, logframes, indicators and performance measurement systems for adaptive programmes.
• Strong experience leading routine monitoring, data collection, verification, quality assurance, analysis and reporting across multiple workstreams, partners and country teams.
• Proven ability to oversee or support evaluations, reviews, learning studies and evidence generation using qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods approaches.
• Experience translating MEL data into practical insights, recommendations and learning products that inform adaptive management, programme improvement and strategic decision-making.
• Experience in sexual and reproductive health and rights, health systems strengthening, demographic transition, or another closely related technical area would be highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of donor reporting requirements and performance management approaches, ideally including FCDO standards, annual reviews, value for money reporting and evidence pack preparation.
• Experience supporting the design or use of dashboards, data visualisation tools and management information systems to improve real-time performance tracking and data use.
• Ability to build MEL capacity of staff, partners and consultants through training, mentoring, guidance and the development of practical tools and templates.
• Experience working effectively across consortia, technical partners and externally contracted evaluators, with the ability to coordinate inputs and maintain coherence across programme components.
• Strong knowledge of data protection, ethical data collection, safeguarding considerations and context-sensitive approaches to evidence generation and knowledge sharing.
• Excellent analytical, writing and communication skills, including the ability to synthesise complex information clearly for different audiences through reports, briefs, presentations and learning outputs.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with country teams, senior leadership, partners and external stakeholders in a fast-paced, geographically dispersed environment.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online