Apply to 26-0080-004 | Education MEL and Data Specialist / Statistician — Ghana (Contingent)

Axyde Analytics, LLC is assembling a proposed Ghana consortium for an education baseline, digital infrastructure readiness assessment and AI user-needs study supporting Ghana’s Digital Education Pilot and AI Teacher Companion. We invite expressions of interest for a paid consultancy, contingent on contract award, funding and agreed terms. This is an assessment and planning assignment.

Location and timing

Primary duty station: Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana, with field missions. The programme covers the catchments of Accra College of Education (Accra), Al-Faruq College of Education (Wenchi), Foso College of Education (Assin Foso), Tamale College of Education (Tamale), Dambai College of Education (Dambai) and Wesley College of Education (Kumasi). The 60 participating basic schools have not yet been selected; precise school sites and individual travel schedules will be agreed.

Ghana-based availability is preferred. Remote analysis periods may be agreed within the research and fieldwork plan.

The overall assignment is 100 days; each consultant’s working days may be intermittent or part-time and will depend on the agreed workplan. Start dates will be negotiated. Fees, travel and delivery expenses must be agreed within the funded scope before engagement. The eventual contract may be with a Ghana consortium member; the contracting entity and terms will be confirmed before appointment. Applying does not create employment, exclusivity or an appointment with Axyde or UNICEF.

Your role

• Refine indicators, baseline measurement, sampling and comparison approaches with the Education Research Team Leader.
• Develop quantitative and qualitative tools, data-management procedures, field quality checks and a documented analysis plan.
• Conduct statistical and qualitative analysis and produce defensible baseline values, clean datasets, codebooks and metadata for future comparative analysis.
• Enable meaningful disaggregation by gender, disability, location and other agreed equity variables, with transparent limitations.
• Protect confidentiality and implement research ethics, safeguarding and data-protection requirements throughout collection, analysis and handover.

Experience and qualifications

• An advanced university degree directly related to the proposed technical role is expected. The RFP permits a first university degree plus substantial relevant professional experience for selected technical roles where appropriate; describe that evidence if applicable. Acceptance depends on the proposed role and the buyer’s assessment.
• Strong mixed-methods research, survey and sampling design, statistical software and qualitative-analysis experience.
• Experience with education or digital-education data systems and production of clean, documented datasets for subsequent comparative analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to design meaningful equity disaggregation and maintain ethical, confidential and secure data management.
• Examples of personally developed sampling plans, analytical outputs, baseline datasets, codebooks or metadata.

Fluency in English is required. Ghana education-sector experience, Ghanaian languages (particularly Asante Twi and Dagbani), and work in comparable multilingual, low-resource settings are assets. Qualified applicants of any nationality may apply, subject to the ability to undertake the agreed Ghana work.

How to apply

Please send a current CV and a brief account of two relevant assignments, identifying your own responsibilities and outputs. Include your location, conditional availability, estimated working days, travel needs and indicative daily rate or fixed fee in USD, with expenses and tax assumptions stated separately. Tell us whether you authorize opportunity-specific inclusion of your CV in the proposal, subject to agreement on role and terms; this permission is not assumed from applying. Flag any employer restrictions or conflicting commitments. Share only samples or references you are authorized to disclose.

Initial responses are requested by 2 October 2026 at 16:00 GMT for proposal preparation. If supporting information cannot be ready by then, send your CV and initial availability with the earliest date for the remaining details. This is an initial recruitment target, not a guaranteed appointment or the UNICEF submission deadline.

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