MONITORING, EVALUATION, AND LEARNING (MEAL) MANAGER

Work Location:	Mali - Mopti
Other Possible Locations:
Expected Travel:	up to 30%
Language Requirement:	French and English (fluency in both required)
Employee Duration:	Active Full-Time
Type of Post:	Unaccompanied
Funding:	THIS POSITION IS PENDING DONOR APPROVAL
Application Deadline:	6/15/15
Our diversity is our strength; we encourage people from all  backgrounds and experiences, particularly women, to apply.  CARE USA is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
DESCRIPTION
This position is based in Mopti, Mali. CARE seeks a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEAL) Manager to support its current bid to the USAID/Mali Development Food Assistance Program (DFAP), a five-year assistance agreement totaling approximately $9 million per year.  USAID’s Office of Food for Peace (FFP) will award one agreement with the goal of increasing food, nutrition, and income security, and building the resilience of vulnerable populations in the Mopti area of Mali.  This Mopti Community Resilience Project (Mopti CRP) is intended to support and contribute to the achievement of USAID/Mali’s emerging Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) and, particularly, its objective of building resilience by increasing the adaptive capacities of vulnerable communities and households. The successful candidate will assume responsibility for full-cycle monitoring and evaluation of this project’s development hypothesis, that “resource transfer modalities” used to build households’ resilience to shocks will enable households to fill gaps in food consumption, thereby increasing food security.  This program will have a specific focus on Health, Nutrition, and WASH.  To ensure impact occurs in line with the theory of change, the MEAL Manager will develop a methodology and tools to design an evaluation, while assessing the reliability and validity of indicators.  Per USAID’s program description, underlying causes the MEAL Manager and her/his report/s will be responsible to reflect and measure include: social accountability and governance, gender equality and women’s empowerment, and youth development.  Further, s/he will collaborate with project staff to finalize the indicator list and begin supervising data collection.  The MEAL Manager will also inquire into the generalizability of project data across the population, and will oversee data analysis.  S/he will then supervise production of a series of evaluation reports, which will include recommendations based on empirical data that help program staff make informed decisions.  These reports include the PMP, annual work plans (including targets), quarterly reports, and annual reports – which, together, will form a useful basis for advsing on next steps. The MEAL Manager will bring mastery of knowledge in the following domains USAID and the Food Security and Nutrition Network outline: M&E concepts (among them, clearly define project cycle and results chain); project design (including causal analysis and objective hierarchy); developing project M&E system based on the approved M&E plan (framework and indicator development); sampling (probability and purposive sampling techniques); data quality management; qualitative and quantitative techniques; data analysis; use of statistical software; evaluation design; and presentation of information.  The MEAL Manager will play a large role in assisting the capacity-building efforts of the applicant to develop, standardize, and utilize standardized data collection and reporting forms for key vulnerable, agriculture-dependent populations in Mali. Specific duties and responsibilities Supporting program staff to use evidence-based design drawing from best practice; Promote real-time applied learning, collaboration, and adaptive management Developing a methodology and tools to assess the reliability and validity of indicators; Using indicators to assess, evaluate, and test the development hypothesis, in accordance with the Mali Mission’s draft resilience results framework, the FFP food security conceptual framework, and other USAID guidance; Generating empirical data from the field through participatory mechanisms; Targeting data collection efforts through various statistical sampling techniques; Working with management information systems to analyze data and supervise data collection efforts; Continually refining the approach proposed in the evaluation design, based on new data from the field; Creating a learning agenda for the project team; Strengthening Mission- and partner-level M&E systems; and Building capacity through participatory workshops on how to conduct M&E in the field. Minimum qualifications Master’s degree in statistics, economics, public health, or related field required; Ten years' experience in evaluation design and implementation; Experience using random selection and random assignment to design impact evaluations; Experience developing indicators for impact and performance evaluation; Knowledge of quantitative (OLS, pair-wise matching) and qualitative (literature reviews, key informant interviews) methods; Familiarity with sampling and data-matching techniques in data-scarce settings; Experience conducting data quality assessments (DQAs); Experience in social science, as well as health monitoring and evaluation; Prior work with statistical software packages, including quantitative software (SAS, STATA, SPSS) and qualitative software (NVivo); Fluency in speaking, reading, and writing in French and English required; and Experience with USAID programming (Title II preferred).
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