Irene Mtekateka

Irene is an education policy and program management professional with proven expertise in monitoring and evaluating several education programs, including Literacy Boost programs in Niger, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi and Nepal. She is also good in motivating young students in classroom settings. Irene has led the development of operating procedures for the Global Partnership for Education’s monitoring function and has experience in collaborating with multicultural international teams, adapting to diverse contexts, languages, cultures.

Fluent in English and Chichewa

Reading/ Writing/ Literacy Specialist Education Management and Administration Training/ Community Education Monitoring/Evaluation Framework Effectiveness

Experience

2017 - Current

Consultant - Global Partnership for Education - World Bank, Washington, DC

2018-2019

Consultant : Girls Equipped for Change, Voice Awake

Salima, Malawi

2017

Monitoring and Evaluation Intern : Global Partnership for Education World Bank,

Washington DC, USA

2016-2017

World Learning, Washington, DC

Program Assistant, IDEP Education Unit

2016

Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant - World Vision International, Washington, DC

2015 - 2016

Reading Specialist - Urban Promise International, Camden, New Jersey

2012- 2014

Assistant Teacher/Office Manager African Bible College Christian Academy

Lilongwe, Malawi

2011

Connections and Communications Assistant

Flood Church

San Diego, California

Support the project management of GPE’s evaluation portfolio, including liaison with external contractors
Supported data management for GPE’s operational monitoring function

Developed a methodology to classify GPE’s thematic investments and completed the classification of programmatic investments by education sub-sector and theme for 30 countries
Classify and cost COVID19 accelerated fund grants by education sub-sector and theme.
Supports the monitoring of COVID-19 accelerated financing grants by administering and analyzing grant agent surveys
Coordinate with the team on the coding and peer-review processes in order to provide final timely results.
Coded FY20 active grants using NVIVO and provided data for the 2021 results report.
Coding and costing FY21 active grants using excel to provide data for the 2022 results report
Supported COVID 19 evaluations
Provided data for Indicator 20 of the GPE results Framework
Performed literature review to support the design of the replenishment indicators
Create reports on countries’ overall education responses to the COVID crisis
Reviewed and quality assured country-level evaluations that focus on assessing the relevance, efficiency and effectiveness of GPE's theory of change at the country level, and the related achievement of GPE’s goals and objectives.
Support the management of the evaluations’ independent review panels
Conceptualize and coordinate internal and external dissemination events related to evaluations
Contribute to the design, testing, and ongoing quality assurance of the Results and Performance team’s external communication strategy

Carried out needs assessments and baseline assessments to find what are the needs of the girls in the community and what is currently being provided to them and what is mostly needed.
Created Voice Awakes’ monitoring and evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness of programming Throughout Malawi
Supported the organization in capacity building efforts by training the girls who lead in different activities at the organization.

Led the development of operating procedures for the Global Partnership for Education’s monitoring function
Supported the development of the GPE annual results report, by producing data analysis and drafting sections of the report
Collaborated in a feasibility study to determine the extent to which GPE can disaggregate indicators in the Result Framework by disability status

Developed, edited and proofread educational material and content including online course content and proposals.
Carried out educational context, policy, and trend research used in World Learning publications and proposals.
Managed program and course information in World Learning Systems.

Programmed an English template for the Literacy Boost assessment tool using Tangerine software for Niger, Ethiopia, Ghana and Malawi.
Analyzed quantitative data from the Literacy Boost parents survey in Ethiopia, Ghana, and a Situational Analysis in Niger that helped to implement the program successfully.
Consolidated data from 60 countries and provided technical support to produce education section of World Vision’s annual global child well-being report.

Collaborated with teachers to identify reading challenges and develop an after school program curriculum
Successfully taught 20 students applying adaptive strategies, to become independent learners and thinkers

Provided administrative support.
Taught the Math and Reading curricula at African Bible College Christian Academy (ABCCA).
Supervised staff team of ABCCA by organizing incoming and outgoing tasks and communications.

Planned and organized youth activities
Planned content and copywriting for publications; church brochures, annual reports and church newsletters
Wrote content for church website pages and scripts for presentations and videos.

Education

2017

World Learning, School for International Training, Washington DC

M. A. Sustainable Development, International Policy and Management

2015

Belhaven University, Mississippi

Masters of Education, Reading Literacy/ Graduated with departmental honors

2013

Bachelors of Education/ Graduated with departmental honors

African Bible College, Lilongwe, Malawi.

Relevant course work:

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Practice, Ahmedabad, India Researched and gathered information to inform a project evaluation focused on decisive women’s leadership within their caste and tribal communities.

Created monitoring and evaluation frameworks that assessed program effectiveness.
Made recommendations based on findings to improve project implementation and management.

Thesis: Analysis of the Sustainable Development goal on quality education and its application to the realities in Malawi.

Project: Developed math and reading curricula for Kindergarten Jackson, Mississippi, USA.

Thesis: The impact of community day secondary schools in Lilongwe Malawi.