Country: Mozambique
Closing date: 14 Aug 2015
Senior Evaluation 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 Evaluation Officer to oversee evaluation, analyses and assessments throughout the life of the activity, including data collection, design of evaluation methodologies and participatory data collection methods and protocols, as well as data quality verification techniques. She/he will also be responsible for the design, quality development and production of all evaluations reports and any assessments, population based surveys and studies including the testing of the development hypotheses, where feasible. This will include the design of the evaluation methodology and participatory data collection methods and protocols for both performance and IEs. Working with other Key Personnel, the Senior Evaluation Officer will ensure that short- and long-term evaluation team members 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:
- Master’s degree in the field of international development or international relations, economics, political science, public policy, statistics, and/or other relevant field. Documented academic or professional training in evaluation design and methods.
- Minimum eight (8) years of progressively more responsible experience in the design, management, and implementation of evaluations (impact and performance), analyses and assessments, including the designing 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.
- Excellent data analysis skills including good command of statistics, sampling methodologies, and statistical analysis software such as SPSS, STATA, Epi Info, etc.
- Experience in the gender dimensions of evaluations.
- Extensive experience drafting and finalizing evaluation reports.
- Experience providing group (of various sizes) and one-on-one training and mentoring on evaluation- related subjects.
- Familiarity with USG policies, preferably USAID policies, related to evaluation management.
- Familiarity with a diverse set of USAID programing (i.e., health, agriculture, education, governance).
- Fluent 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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