COUNTRIES: Sierra Leone and Liberia

Sector: Gender Equality

Mode of Financing:  Grant

Project ID: P-Z1-ID0-009

Grant No: 5900155016801

Issued Date: 2 June 2026

 

The Mano River Union Secretariat has received a grant from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to implement the project to Build Inclusive Business Ecosystems for Stabilization and Transformation (BI-BEST) in the Mano River Union (MRU) and intends to apply part of the agreed amount for this grant to payments under the contract for the recruitment of Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant to support the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) set up at the Mano River Union Secretariat in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

The services to be provided under the Assignment include the following:

Job Description: The Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant will have the overall responsibility for monitoring of project indicators and coordinate the implementation of the monitoring, learning, evaluation and sustainability plan.

Duties and Responsibilities: 

  • Develop and maintain a monitoring, learning, and evaluation plan with performance tracking indicators.
  • Capture and report on relevant learning activities across the selected value chains involving cross border women traders and critical stakeholders in project communities,
  • Report on the status of the monitoring, learning, and evaluation activities of the project, and propose tools, methods or any other improvement in ensuring effective monitoring and evaluation of the project.
  • Provide advice on the development of data collection instruments and monitor data quality.
  • Propose and support in collaboration with the Communications Assistant and other Members of the PIU, methods of communication in terms of achievements (results) and impact of the activities of the project and well as the compilation of success stories.
  • Contribute to the preparation of Annual Work Plans and accompanying Budgets.
  • Prepare periodic and quarterly reports to feed in the overall project quarterly reports and assist in the synthesis of the overall reports from the PIU.
  • Participate in coordination meetings for the project.
  • Participate in training programmes organized or arranged by the Bank.
  • Develop a sustainability plan for the project and suggest innovations in the monitoring, learning, and evaluation of the overall performance of the project.
  • Perform any other task that the Project Coordinator will wish to entrust to you.

Minimum Education Qualification and Experience

  • Must have a Degree/Certificate (at postgraduate level) in project monitoring and evaluation, planning or related field, at least three (3) years’ experience in monitoring of projects of similar nature.
  • Good knowledge and appreciation of capacity building, women’s economic empowerment, socio-economic development, regional integration and related issues in the MRU and its member states.
  • Experience in programme design, management, and implementation.
  • Experience in developing and implementing monitoring and reporting tools.
  • Experience in compiling learning activities, success stories, reviewing and writing results-based donor reports.
  • Good report writing and analytical skills.
  • Familiarity with computerized management information systems and management.
  • Experience with the management of international technical cooperation programmes.
  • Familiarity with AfDB programmes policies and procedures will be an added advantage.

Other Qualities or Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability of high level/strategic report writing is a must;
  • Demonstrated ability to transfer skills and knowledge – previous training or teaching experience a plus;
  • High Proficiency in the use Microsoft Excel is a must;
  • Very good time management skills and ability to multi-task and work under time pressure
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas and analyses clearly and tactfully, both orally and in writing;
  • Fluency in English including demonstrated report writing skills;
  • Ability to work in an effectively in a team-oriented environment.
  • Demonstrated capacity to rapidly gain familiarity.

The contract is expected to run for eleven (11) months from the date of signature of contract. (August 2026 – June 2027).

The Mano River Union Secretariat is therefore inviting eligible individual consultants to indicate their interest in providing these services. Interested Consultants shall provide information on their qualifications and experience (cover letter, CV with work experience, contact address/phone number, references and photocopies of certificates, etc.) to undertake this Assignment.

Eligibility criteria, establishment of the short-list and the selection procedure shall be in accordance with the African Development Bank’s “Procurement Policy and Methodology for Bank Group funded Operations” (BPM), dated 2015, which is available on the Bank’s website at http://www.afdb.org. MRU is under no obligation to shortlist any consultant who expresses interest.

Interested Individual Consultants may query, obtain further information or Terms of Reference (ToR) from the Procurement Specialist email address: kensah@mru.int during the Office’s working hours between 09:00 to 17:00 hours GMT.

Expressions of interest must be delivered by email to the address below by July 1st, 2026 at 2:30pm Sierra Leone time and mention “CONSULTANCY SERVICE FOR MONITORING & EVALUATION (M & E) ASSISTANT”.

Attention:

Mano River Union Secretariat

32 S Spur Loop, Wilberforce, Freetown

Rep. of Sierra Leone

Tel: +232 76964965

E-mail : procurement@mru.int