Country: Mozambique
Closing date: 14 Aug 2015
Senior Monitoring Officer, Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation
Mechanism and Service, Mozambique
Company Profile:
MSI is a Washington, DC metro area international development firm with a 30-year history of helping to deliver development results across the developing world. In 2008, we became the America’s operation of the international development arm of Coffey International Limited. Since that time, we have greatly expanded our ability to respond seamlessly and flexibly to client needs with our sister offices in the UK and Australia. We operate in some of the most challenging and political and economic climates in the world, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Iraq. MSI currently employs 800 development experts in the fields of public sector management, monitoring and evaluation, governance and anti-corruption. 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.
Position Summary:
MSI seeks a Senior Monitoring Officer to Oversee program monitoring and reporting across multiple activities and programs. She/he will work with Key Personnel and other stakeholders (i.e., partners, Mission staff) providing oversight of monitoring functions, such as, the creation of performance indicators, development of activity and project M&E plans, setting of targets, collection of program data, assessment of data quality, analyses of data, reporting, and impact. This will include providing trainings to various stakeholders on results-based management and creating effective monitoring indicators, plans, processes, and systems to improve performance monitoring. Working with other Key Personnel, the Senior Monitoring Officer will ensure that short- and long-term monitoring team members (including M&E Specialists and field support staff) recruited under this contract are of a high caliber and possess the required technical expertise.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in the production of evaluation reports.
- Ensure M&E reports are produced on time, technically valid, and of high quality.
- Design the valuation methodology and participatory data collection methods and protocols for both performance and impact evaluations.
- Maintain the Mission’s Project Management Plan and the development and maintenance of implementing partners’ M&E Plans.
- Work directly with mission staff and implementing partners to integrate new M&E methodologies and processes into the Mission’s M&E practice.
Qualifications:
- A Masters (or higher) degree in the field of international relations, economics, political science, public policy, statistics, and/or other relevant field.
- Academic or professional training in performance monitoring design and implementation, including data collection and analysis.
- Minimum eight (8) years of progressively more responsible experience in the design and management of indicators, M&E plans, performance targets, data quality assessments, data collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Providing guidance in the development and updating of performance management plans (PMPs).
- Experience with creating and managing performance indicator tracking systems/databases.
- Experience using performance monitoring data for the improvement of ongoing project/activity management.
- Experience in the gender dimensions of monitoring.
- Extensive experience in drafting indicators.
- Experience providing group (of various sizes) and one-on-one training and mentoring on monitoring- related subjects (i.e., results-based management).
- Familiarity with USG policies, related to performance monitoring.
- Familiarity with a diverse set of programming (i.e., health, agriculture, education, governance), one of which must be health or agriculture
- Fluent in English; working knowledge of Portuguese or Spanish is acceptable.
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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