Senior Consultant: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

Management Level Senior Associate Job Description & Summary At PwC, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We’re a tech-forward, people-empowered network with more than 364,000 people in 136 countries and 137 territories. Across audit and assurance, tax and legal, deals and consulting, we help clients build, accelerate, and sustain momentum. Find out more at https://www.pwc.com/ke. PwC has a presence in 22 African countries, including over 41 office locations. With more than 400 partners and 10,000 professionals across Africa, we serve some of the continent’s largest businesses across all industries. In East Africa, our member firms work together across the East Market Area (EMA) to build trust in society and solve important problems. Our in-depth knowledge and understanding of operating environments in the region enable us to put ourselves in our clients’ shoes and offer tailored solutions to complex business and development challenges. Within the Advisory Line of Service, our International Development and Public Sector Consulting team works with Governments, Development Partners, Financial Institutions, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Private Sector to address key development challenges and contribute to sustainable, inclusive, and climate-resilient economic growth We are seeking a Senior Consultant: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) to support the design and delivery of advisory engagements across Kenya and the wider East Market Area (EMA). The role will focus on helping clients design, deploy, strengthen, and operationalise Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) functions, including policies, frameworks, systems, reporting processes, and performance management approaches. The successful candidate will also support the delivery of baseline, midline, endline, process, performance, and impact evaluations, independent verification assignments, data quality assurance, and the use of data analytics and digital tools to improve programme learning, reporting, and decision-making. The role will further support evidence synthesis, knowledge harvesting, and learning processes that help clients and programme teams interpret findings, identify lessons, and improve programme strategy and delivery. This role is suited to a professional with strong technical grounding in MEL and data analytics, experience working in complex development programmes, and the ability to translate evidence into practical insights for clients and stakeholders. The successful candidate should be comfortable working across multiple assignments, engaging diverse stakeholders, and contributing to both project delivery and growth of PwC’s MEL advisory portfolio.

M&E System Design and Strengthening Support clients in setting up, deploying, and strengthening MEL functions. Design and strengthen MEL strategies, frameworks, policies, guidelines, systems, and tools. Develop and refine results frameworks, theories of change, logical frameworks, indicator matrices, learning questions, and performance tracking systems. Support the roll-out and operationalisation of MEL systems, tools, and reporting processes within client programmes and institutions. Contribute to the design of workflows, user guidance, reporting templates, and data governance arrangements that support effective use of MEL systems. Support the integration of learning and adaptive management considerations into MEL system design and implementation. Evaluations, Verification and Data Quality Assurance Lead and contribute to baseline, midline, endline, process, performance, and impact evaluations across public and development sector programmes. Design and implement evaluation methodologies, including mixed-methods approaches, sampling strategies, data collection tools, analytical frameworks, and fieldwork plans. Support or manage independent verification assignments, including verification design,