Opeyemi Ademidun Ogunleye

National Learning Assessment

Data Scientist and Technical Consultant, working with assessment specialists and information-systems colleagues.

The institutional need

National standard-setting workshops needed validated score distributions, structured capture of panellist judgments and clear analysis to inform performance-level discussions across several subjects and grades.

My contribution

• Data preparation. Cross-checked assessment items against official test maps, built item worksheets and validated score-frequency tables against their SPSS sources.
• Digital tools. Contributed to the Digital Angoff Rating Form and admin dashboard, supported four rating rounds and resolved reliability issues when many panellists used the form at once.
• Analysis. Built agreement scatter plots, impact histograms, proficiency-band displays and proposed cut-score graphics to support facilitator and panel discussions.
• Closeout. Compiled final panel ratings and cut-score results, and ran the participant evaluation.

Outputs and scale

453,726

Scored test papers in the validated frequency data. This is a paper count, not a count of unique learners.

12

Subject and grade distributions consolidated for standard setting.

4 rounds

Digital rating and dashboard support across successive judgment rounds.

Federal Scholarship Management Portal

Head of Projects and Partnerships, Public Sector, followed by an external consultancy engagement.

The institutional need

Scholarship administration needed one digital workflow covering applications, verification, processing, approvals and executive reporting, with government decision-makers, operational users and the engineering team aligned behind it.

My contribution

• Requirements and reporting. Defined application, verification, approval and reporting requirements, and shaped dashboard indicators for applicants, beneficiaries, disbursements and distribution by gender, state and geopolitical zone.
• Government engagement. Led engagement with more than 15 external stakeholders, up to ministerial level, and turned their feedback into requirements and delivery priorities.
• Delivery coordination. Coordinated a team of about 12 across product, engineering, projects and partnerships, with plans, milestones and risk updates for leadership.
• Commercial progression. Developed proposals, budgets and delivery plans and supported the opportunity through procurement to a formal contract award.
• Wider portfolio. Developed education-sector concepts to proposal stage and managed procurement and compliance submissions.

Delivery position

The portal reached user acceptance testing in February 2026 with 16 Federal Scholarship Board personnel. The contract award is an evidenced commercial milestone. Adoption, processing-time savings and beneficiary outcomes still need to be measured.

Education data systems

Two USAID-funded programmes: LEARN to Read and NEI Plus.

LEARN to Read

Data Systems Advisor, April 2022 to February 2025

Designed data pipelines, monitoring frameworks and automated dashboards. Led data quality assessments and indicator reviews, and worked on literacy assessment and classroom-observation analytics for programme reviews and education planning. My work covered Gombe, Adamawa and Niger states, as well as Sokoto and Bauchi.

Led co-design workshops with education stakeholders in Sokoto and Bauchi, and contributed to an EDMIS prototype combining learner, teacher, facilities, supervision, assessment and materials information. Trained and coached state and local officials on visualisation, system use and interpretation.

The EDMIS work was prototype development, not a nationwide deployment.

NEI Plus

ICTD and Digital Education Manager, 2019 to 2021

Led ICT4D delivery and digitisation of assessment and monitoring tools supporting more than 200 schools in the FCT, Bauchi and Sokoto. Designed collection, validation and reporting workflows, and built dashboards covering learner performance, attendance and teacher effectiveness.

Led development of a centralised digital repository, contributed to Creative Associates' global MEDAL system, and supervised technical staff.

Health and institutional performance

Health information systems, monitoring and verification, and current advisory work.

Health information systems

Senior ICTD Systems Specialist, Management Sciences for Health, 2010 to 2016

Designed and supported pharmaceutical supply-chain, health-indicator and facility-reporting systems across more than eight states. Administered DHIS2, supported HMIS and NOMIS environments, and ran data-quality and organisational capacity assessments.

Led CommCare and mobile DHIS reporting initiatives, supported EMR deployment in Kwara, and trained more than 300 health workers and M&E personnel.

Third-party monitoring

Senior MEL and Data Manager, Management Systems International, November 2021 to March 2022

Managed data operations for USAID third-party monitoring and verification. Reviewed performance datasets and partner reports for quality, worked on evaluation instruments and mixed-method synthesis, and prepared evidence briefs and learning reports.

Advisory assignments in 2026

Institutional monitoring and knowledge management

Monitoring frameworks, KPIs and reporting tools, and programme knowledge repositories, including work relating to Palladium SCALE.

NPHCDA digital toolkit

Product requirements for a facility and financial-management toolkit across programme users, government stakeholders and technology delivery.

NHIA strategy and governance

With ARG Consulting, presented ecosystem insights and facilitated leadership strategy sessions at the NHIA strategic retreat. Supported the Five-Year Strategy Blueprint 2026–2031, transformation planning, governance reporting and HMO accreditation tracking.

Leadership and credentials

How I work, what I work with, and where I trained.

How I lead delivery

I clarify the operational problem with users, translate it into requirements and reporting needs, and work with technical colleagues on practical delivery. I use demonstrations and structured feedback to resolve gaps, make dependencies visible to leadership, and support teams through training and follow-up.

That experience includes cross-functional coordination at Casava, supervision of technical staff in education programmes, programme coordination at Noble Perceptive (2016–2019), and management of technical teams and vendors as Project Director, Network and Systems, at Lana Commercial & Synergy Ltd (2016–2020).

Technical toolkit

Analysis

SPSS, Python, R, Stata, Excel

Data and reporting

SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio

Collection and systems

CommCare, KoboToolbox, ODK, DHIS2, HMIS, NOMIS, EMR, EMIS/EDMIS, SharePoint

Institutional delivery

Requirements analysis, data governance, stakeholder engagement, proposals, capacity building

Education

2024

MSc Big Data Analytics, Distinction, University of Derby

2014

Master Certificate, Systems Design and Project Leadership, Cornell University

2013

Master Certificate, Healthcare Leadership, Cornell University

2008

BSc Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University

Further training: M&E in Global Health (University of Washington), R Programming and Data Science (Johns Hopkins University), Advanced Impact Measurement and Learning (MITx). Languages: English and Yoruba (fluent), French (basic).

Research and professional exchange

My MSc dissertation studied attention span, with 277 participants. I presented a poster on centralised data systems for teacher support at the KIX Symposium in Abidjan in 2023. Two of my abstracts were accepted for ICT4D Accra 2024, on teacher-support platforms and on co-creation and co-design.