Mozambique: Deputy Chief of Party, Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism and Service

Deputy Chief of Party, Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation

Mechanism and Service, Mozambique

Company Profile:

Management Systems International (MSI) is an international development firm in the Washington, D.C., metro area with a 30-year history of helping to deliver results across the developing world. In 2008, we became part of Coffey International Limited. Since that time, we have greatly expanded our ability to respond seamlessly and flexibly to client needs with Coffey's international development offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. We operate in some of the most challenging political and economic climates in the world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and South Sudan. MSI currently employs 800 development experts in the fields of public sector management, monitoring and evaluation, governance, and anticorruption. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.

Proposal Summary:

The Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism and Service (MMEMS) project will work with Mission staff and its affiliated implementing partners to improve the mission’s performance planning monitoring and reporting systems, thereby making USAID/Mozambique a more effective and adaptive development organization. MMEMS will focus its effort on systems which will enable the Mission to fulfill its performance monitoring, evaluation, reporting and dissemination requirements, and improve the overall planning, design and management of its development activities. It will do this by facilitating improved activity management and learning capacity, improved monitoring and performance data and high quality and efficient evaluation services.

Mozambican nationals are encouraged to apply for this position.

Position Summary:

The Deputy Chief of Party’s responsibility will be to provide support, leadership and technical expertise to the overall management of the Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation mechanism and Service Project. In addition to providing key support to the Chief of Party on all management areas under his/her direct supervision, the successful candidate will serve as the senior M&E Advisor to the MMEMS project. A strong background in monitoring, evaluability assessments, and analysis is required. Experience with the application of statistical methods and the implementation of development assistance program performance evaluations is essential. In addition, the selected individual will have substantial evaluation (both performance and impact evaluation) design expertise, and experience in performance monitoring and evaluation in complex environments. This position will be based in Quelimane and will manage two field offices.

Responsibilities:

• Develop resources to create, capture, organize, translate, share, and apply knowledge to improve USAID Mozambique’s programs.
• Build capacity for adapting to new learning and changes in context through effective approaches.
• Coordinate knowledge sharing and strategic learning to speed innovation and bring new innovations to mission’s programmatic work in country.
• Serve as the lead senior Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) advisor to the MMEMS.
• Provide leadership and guidance on the overall monitoring and evaluation, and help make Mission’s IPs become learning and adaptive partners for all USAID’s assistance efforts in Mozambique through creating strategic sub/mini IP internal and strategic learning/KM activities.
• Provide thorough leadership by supporting strategic learning and knowledge management.
• Provide support to the COP to ensure that the project meets all its reporting requirements.
• Provide technical quality control over M&E related services, including reviewing proposed evaluation methodologies, implementing agency monitoring and reporting systems, and overseeing surveys.
• Work with COP and CLA/KMA, ensuring that monitoring and evaluation information is shared and fully utilized through knowledge sharing and strategic learning processes to speed innovation and improve upon and bring new innovations to the Mission’s programmatic work in-country.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in international relations, economics, political science, public policy, management, and/or other relevant field.
• Minimum of eight (8) years professional work experience managing complex donor-funded international development capacity building or training activities.
• Technical knowledge and experience in the design, implementation, and management of monitoring, evaluation, and performance management, including (but not limited to) indicator development, data collection and analysis, data quality assessments, performance reporting, evaluation design, evaluation planning, and management/dissemination of evaluations.
• Progressively more responsible experience in the design, management, and implementation of evaluations (impact and performance), analyses and assessments, including the dosing of the evaluation methodology, designing and implementing quantitative and qualitative methodologies, conducting population based surveys, developing participatory data collection methods and protocols, conducting data analysis, and utilizing data quality verification techniques for large development projects.
• Minimum five (5) years of work experience in sub-Saharan Africa, and minimum three (3) years of total work experience in Mozambique. Minimum three (3) years years of experience must be as a DCOP or field management experience such as Project Director or Regional Director preferred.
• Experience with creating and managing performance tracking systems.
• Experience leveraging performance monitoring data for the improvement of ongoing project/activity management.
• Recent experience, within the past year, using technological innovations for M&E programming, such as tablets, smartphones, evaluation applications, etc.
• Experience using GIS as an M&E tool.
• Experience in the gender dimensions of monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience working in, managing, and/or supervising a field office(s), long-term field staff and short-term U.S., third country, and local experts desired.
• Extensive experience in report writing and providing quality report and evaluation presentations.
• Demonstrate knowledge of USG policies related to evaluation and performance management.
• Professional working knowledge of English; fluency in Portuguese.

Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer.

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