Proposal Summary:
The anticipated three-year USAID-funded Monitoring and Evaluation
Mission M&E Project will provide on-the-ground support on
performance monitoring, data verification, evaluation of the impact,
output and outcome results and environmental compliance of the
USAID/Tanzania program portfolio, covering the following technical
areas:
• Health
• Education
• Economic Growth
• Democracy and Governance
• Agriculture
• Natural Resources
• Partnership for Growth Initiative
Position Summary:
MSI is recruiting for a Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist
to oversee monitoring and evaluation, analyses and assessments
throughout the life of the project, including the data collection,
design of the evaluation methodology and participatory data collection
methods and protocols, and data quality verification techniques.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible the design, quality development and production of all necessary evaluations reports.
• Conduct assessments, population based surveys and studies including the testing of the development hypotheses.
• Design of
the evaluation methodology, participatory data collection methods and
protocols for both performance and impact evaluations.
• Coordinate and be responsible for all data collection, monitoring, report generation, evaluation and related tasks.
• Oversee,
recruit for and ensure short-term technical experts and evaluation team
members are of a high caliber and possess the required technical
expertise.
• Oversee the maintenance of Mission and IPs PMPs.
• Serve as the evaluation team leader of select evaluations conducted under this contract as needed.
• Contribute
substantively to the design and field testing of the evaluation
methodology, participatory data collection methods and protocols, data
verification techniques, and other technical evaluation and analytical
tasks.
Qualifications:
• A
Bachelor’s degree in International Development, Statistics or Economics;
or a Master’s degree with minimum of five years demonstrated experience
in the requested field
• At least
ten years of demonstrated experience in the design and management of
evaluations (impact and performance), analyses and assessments,
including the dosing of the evaluation methodology, population based
surveys, developing performance management plans, participatory data
collection methods and protocols, and data quality verification
techniques from large development projects.
• Ability to provide expert guidance to technical teams in developing and updating performance monitoring plans.
• Demonstrated M&E experience on USAID-funded projects in East and Southern Africa.
• Experience leading an evaluation team.
• Familiarity with current USAID policies related to evaluation and performance management.
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