Monitoring Evaluation & Learning Manager

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Description

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• Assist country office teams in an ongoing manner, to develop and implement project M&E systems that meet ACDI/VOCA and donor standards.
• Support country offices to develop and implement Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Plans.
• Support country offices to develop and implement data quality and data management plans.
• Provide specific mentoring guidance throughout the project lifecycle, from startup (days 1-90), initial implementation (days 91-180), mid-term, through to final evaluations.
• Review all M&E related deliverables of assigned field projects and ensure timely performance.
• Build staff capacity to ensure data quality, mitigate data risk, and help staff develop data quality standards, implement standard operating procedures, and conduct internal data quality audits of project M&E systems.
• Prepare project teams for external data quality audits.
• Maintain a rigorous quality assurance program through regular quality assessments and review of project quarterly, annual, and special reports and provide feedback and guidance to improve and elevate use of M&E data in narrative reports.
• Ensure that each assigned project has an effective and efficient evaluation system/approach in place that allows the project to determine outcome and impact level results in context and maximizes project learning.
• Coordinate and provide staff training to projects in a broad range of program monitoring and evaluation issues/methods/tools (training topics selected with your supervisor).

• Participate in M&E reconnaissance during capture trips and in specific proposal development.
• Contribute data for writing the monitoring and evaluation sections of proposals.
• Propose appropriate standard and/or customized indicators that align with the technical proposal under consideration.
• In collaboration with capture and proposal teams, develop a performance targets for project proposals.
• Propose a learning agenda, as required in solicitations.

• Assist in developing global strategic direction for MERL at ACDI/VOCA.
• Assist in reviewing program M&E status (across countries) and provide feedback on needs, trends, best practices, and priorities to help establish effective support to address any identified gaps and challenges in a timely manner.
• Collaborate in preparation of ACDI/VOCA’s global research agenda and or case studies.
• Assist in the design and implementation of knowledge management systems that ensures up-to-date information on impact, effectiveness, outputs, and inputs to programs.
• Remain informed of new developments in M&E and in donor regulations regarding M&E.
• May Represent ACDI/VOCA on external M&E-related working groups, task forces, conferences, publications and panels.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing through the MERL Newsletter, webinars, and communities of practice.
• Other duties:
• Support and enhance the company’s culture of diversity, equity and inclusion and align with our corporate values by treating others with respect and congeniality.
• Ability to host or attend in-person meetings when required.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience monitoring and evaluating international development programs. Experience in Agriculture, Food for Peace, and or Feed the Future programs is helpful.
• A master’s degree in the fields of M&E, social sciences, agriculture economics or other related field is required.
• Experience in the design and implementation of M&E systems for development projects.
• Demonstrated experience in designing surveys, data collection; statistical analysis; and reporting; including experience with computer-based statistical packages and relational databases (R, SQL, PowerBI, EXCEL, SPSS, etc.).
• Familiarity with USG publications on monitoring and evaluation of development assistance, as well as the OMB Guidance on collection of foreign assistance data.
• Experience working with international donors, as well as counterparts and beneficiaries (e.g., international and local NGOs and government representatives).
• Excellent communications and coordination skills, and cultural sensibility.
• Familiarity with USAID rules and regulations preferred.
• Experience conducting field research preferred.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English required and working knowledge of French or Spanish will be an added advantage.
• Ability and willingness to travel internationally required; may be required to be fully vaccinated against Covid 19 based on country requirements.
• Must be available during core business hours and/or operating hours for international time differences; flexibility to work more hours when needed.
• Flexibility to work in office based on work demands.
• Must adhere to our company’s Health Safety Code of Conduct and demonstrate the organization’s commitment to sustaining a healthy and safe work environment.

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