Data Analysis, Performance Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Accountability Expert

Data Analysis, Performance Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Accountability Expert

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Posted on: 14/09/2026

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Data Analysis, Performance Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Accountability Expert

Compact Delivery and Monitoring Unit (CDMU), Kinshasa, DRC

Please submit your application by Thursday, September 24, 2026, at 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern Time). All required information listed below must be included for your application to be considered. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

• CV, no longer than 5 pages, outlining relevant experience (including major projects and transactions) and suitability for the assignment.

• Cover letter highlighting relevant work experience AND including:

• At least 3 professional references (Name, Relationship to you, Email, Phone)

• Daily rate in USD, based on a full-time assignment of up to 220 working days per year. The rate must cover all personal costs (for example, housing and relocation), as no separate allowances are paid; only approved work-related expenses are reimbursed. Applicable taxes to be stated separately.

• Shortlisted candidates will be proposed to the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet and the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for evaluation. Please include this line in your cover letter: "By applying and submitting my CV and documents, I am granting my consent for Palladium to share my information with the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet and the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo."

About Palladium:

Operating in over 50 countries, Palladium is a global consulting and implementation company working in partnership with governments, businesses, investors, and communities to design and deliver solutions that create lasting positive impact. We address some of the world's most complex challenges across infrastructure, economic growth and natural capital, health, energy, climate and environment, and digital transformation-strengthening systems, institutions, and markets to support inclusive and sustainable development. Our more than 2,100 staff worldwide work as trusted advisors across diverse contexts, combining deep technical expertise, implementation techniques, and innovative technology to deliver locally informed, client-focused solutions that help organisations achieve measurable, sustainable impact.

Palladium is part of GISI's global family of companies, which aims to create solutions for the world's most complex challenges. With annual revenues of $14 billion, GISI's approximately 15,000 employees are engaged in projects across 100 countries worldwide providing construction, program/project management, and engineering consulting services.

About the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet:

The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet works for a world where everyone has access to affordable, reliable, clean electricity and the means to use it to improve their lives. Our Alliance builds transformative public, private, philanthropic partnerships to end energy poverty and accelerate green economic opportunity. Founded in 2021 by The Rockefeller Foundation, IKEA Foundation, and Bezos Earth Fund, we unlock finance, strengthen institutions and transform markets, delivering progress anchored in deep community engagement. By uniting actors across the value chain, from households to heads of state, we go beyond individual projects to drive lasting systems change. With work in more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, our Alliance aims to reach 1 billion people with clean electricity, prevent 4 billion tons of carbon emissions and create or improve 150 million jobs. For more information, please visit www.energyalliance.org and follow on X at @EnergyAlliance.

This Opportunity:

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has endorsed its National Energy Compact as the strategic framework to transform the energy sector by 2030. The Compact is aligned with Mission 300, the initiative co-convened by the World Bank Group and the African Development Bank to connect 300 million Africans to electricity by 2030, in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL). Under the Compact, the Government aims to expand electricity access from 21.5% to 62% by providing first-time access to up to 60 million people, to scale clean cooking from 1% to 30% of the population, and to mobilize more than US$37 billion in public and private investment.

To drive implementation, the Government has established a Compact Delivery and Monitoring Unit (CDMU) within the Prime Minister's Office (Primature). The CDMU coordinates sector ministries, implementing agencies (including the national utility SNEL, the rural electrification agency ANSER and the electricity regulator ARE), development partners and private investors; tracks performance against the Compact Action Plan and Results Framework; and works to resolve implementation bottlenecks. It is staffed by experts embedded within the unit, working as an integrated team under the CDMU Coordinator.

Palladium, which provides services to the Alliance under a Master Services Agreement (MSA), is seeking a Data Analysis, Performance Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Accountability Expert to support the DRC CDMU. With many institutions sharing responsibility for delivery, including SNEL, ANSER, ARE, UCM, UCPIF, sector ministries, provincial governments and private developers, the Compact needs a practical performance management function that converts priorities into measurable milestones, identifies slippage early and keeps all stakeholders accountable.

This role is contingent upon contract award to Palladium. The Expert will be engaged upon award for an initial full-time 12-month assignment, with potential for extension subject to performance, evaluation and available funding. The anticipated start date is October 2026.

Location:

The position is based in Kinshasa, DRC, at the CDMU headquarters within the Prime Minister's Office (Primature), with occasional travel to the provinces as needed. Only candidates with current work authorization will be considered.

Reporting Lines:

• The Expert will report day-to-day to the CDMU Coordinator and will work as a peer with the other CDMU experts, with strategic oversight from Palladium's Energy Access Portfolio Lead. The Expert will coordinate closely with the Ministry of Hydraulic Resources and Electricity (MRHE), the Ministries of Finance and Planning, ARE, ANSER, SNEL, UCM, COPIREP, provincial authorities and development partners, as directed by the CDMU Coordinator.
• The Expert will take part in weekly CDMU coordination meetings. All formal outputs are prepared in French, with English summaries where needed for international partners and investors.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

The Expert will lead the CDMU's performance monitoring, evaluation, learning and accountability function. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Results framework operationalization and data protocols

• Review the Compact Results Framework and translate it into a practical Indicator Reference Matrix covering definitions, baselines, targets, data sources, reporting frequency, responsible entities and verification approach, with intermediate milestones to track execution.

• Establish data collection and reporting tools, including standard reporting templates and a simple data submission calendar for SNEL, ANSER, ARE, UCM, relevant ministries, development partner projects and designated provincial focal points, and agree a time-bound plan with responsible institutions to close priority data gaps.

Performance tracking, evaluation and reporting

• Coordinate regular collection, consolidation, internal evaluation and quality review of implementation data against Compact indicators and key Action Plan milestones.

• Track progress of critical projects and reforms, analyze variances between planned and actual performance, and identify the drivers of delays and underperformance.

• Monitor on-time delivery of all M&E and accountability milestones in the Compact Action Plan by responsible entities, including data systems, verification mechanisms, reporting commitments and evaluation events.

• Work closely with the firm developing the DRC's Multi-Tier Framework (MTF) energy access monitoring program, advising on how multidimensional access indicators can be reflected in Compact monitoring.

• Prepare a concise monthly Compact Performance Dashboard and consolidated monthly performance report highlighting progress, delays, data gaps, risks and required decisions, and provide consistent inputs to quarterly CDMU reports.

• Harmonize Compact reporting with development partner requirements, reducing duplicative reporting burdens on implementing agencies.

• Ensure gender and social inclusion are systematically measured, with sex-disaggregated data collected for all relevant indicators and reported in all performance products.

Early warning, problem-solving and decision support

• Develop and maintain a performance risk and action tracker covering delayed milestones, off-track indicators, missing data and agreed corrective actions.

• Prepare short early-warning notes and decision briefs for the CDMU Coordinator where performance data indicate a risk of significant delay, underachievement or unresolved institutional bottlenecks.

• Support the preparation and documentation of CDMU problem-solving meetings by framing issues clearly, tracking decisions and following up on agreed actions.

Data quality, digital platforms and sub-national data

• Define functional requirements for the CDMU digital dashboard or data platform, coordinate with IT, dashboard, GIS or platform specialists on its development, data integration and dynamic visualization tools, and continuously strengthen information systems.

• Coordinate data quality checks, including consistency reviews and source verification, and escalate material data reliability concerns to the CDMU Coordinator.

• Support a practical sub-national data coordination mechanism through agreed provincial focal points and templates.

Learning, accountability and capacity building

• Facilitate quarterly After-Action Reviews for each Action Plan pillar and quarterly Adaptive Management Reviews with the CDMU team on progress toward the 2027 and 2030 targets and any course corrections needed.

• Synthesize lessons into a Semi-Annual Lessons Brief (June and December) and prepare the Annual Performance Report covering all five Compact pillars.

Recommend and implement practical ways to disseminate Compact information, strengthening transparency, accountability and stakeholder engagement.

• Provide on-the-job support to CDMU and counterpart staff on indicator tracking, data quality, dashboard interpretation and results-based management.

Deliverables:

• This is a time-based assignment. Specific deliverables, tasks and timelines will be defined prior to contract signature. The deliverables over the period of the assignment will include, but are not limited to:

• Inception report and workplan, including approach, priority tasks, stakeholder map, reporting calendar and immediate risks (within 2 weeks of contract signature)

• Indicator Reference Matrix and data protocol package, including reporting templates (month 1)

• Performance risk and action tracker (month 1, then updated monthly)

• Monthly Compact Performance Dashboard and report (from month 2)

• Early-warning notes and decision briefs (as needed)

• External stakeholder reports, learning and capacity-building notes, and the Semi-Annual Lessons Brief (semi-annually)

• Annual Performance Report

• Completion and handover report (two weeks before the end of the assignment)

Essential Criteria:

• Advanced university degree (master's or equivalent) in statistics, economics, public policy, social sciences, energy, engineering or a related field.

• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in monitoring, evaluation, performance management and learning within large-scale development programs, public sector reforms or infrastructure initiatives.

• At least 5 years of direct experience designing and operationalizing integrated MEL or performance management systems in the energy, infrastructure, public investment or basic services sectors.

• Proven experience supporting government-led, multi-stakeholder programs involving public institutions, development partners, private sector actors and financing institutions.

• Demonstrated expertise in developing results frameworks, theories of change, KPI frameworks, performance dashboards and implementation monitoring systems.

• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, including survey design, sampling, performance analytics and digital data management.

• Good working knowledge of digital data tools such as Excel, Power BI and Kobo/ODK, or equivalent platforms.

• Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder coordination skills, including leading performance reviews and learning workshops.

• Fluency in English and French.

Desirable Criteria:

• Familiarity with energy access metrics and the Multi-Tier Framework (MTF).

• Prior experience in the DRC or Central Africa on energy, infrastructure, governance or public sector reform programs (highly desirable).

Ethics and Confidentiality:

The Expert must maintain the highest standards of integrity, impartiality and confidentiality, and will be required to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest involving investors, developers, financial institutions, advisers or government entities.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or status as a protected veteran.

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.

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