Local Support Staff Consultant, PIMMELA
Management Systems International (MSI), a Tetra Tech Company, is a Washington, D.C. metro area management consultancy with a 40-year history of delivering results for our clients. Our expertise is in the fields of monitoring and evaluation; democracy and governance; peace and stability; rule of law and accountability; education; gender and inclusion; strategic communications; and leadership and organizational development. MSI has implemented projects in 90 countries around the world such as Colombia, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria and Ukraine, and works domestically. We support clients ranging from the U.S. Government (e.g., the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Departments of State and Labor, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation) to large bilateral and multilateral donors (e.g., the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program). We also work with national and local governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), think tanks, foundations and universities. For more information, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.
Project Summary:
MSI is implementing the Philippines, Pacific Islands and Mongolia Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Activity (PIMMELA) in the Philippines, 12 Pacific Island countries and Mongolia. PIMMELA will provide monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) support services to the USAID Missions within the geographic area of coverage. Presently, PIMMELA is working with the USAID Mongolia in the conduct of its mid-term evaluation of the Mongolia Energy Governance (MEG) Activity. MEG has three overarching objectives: 1) to improve planning and operational performance of electricity and heating systems, 2) to increase market competitiveness in the power sector, and 3) to enable adoption of modern energy technologies This evaluation has two equally important purposes: 1) to identify appropriate management and implementation strategies that need to be adjusted or adapted during the remaining duration of the activity, and 2) to inform the conceptualization, design and implementation of any follow-on activities that may evolve from the current MEG activity.
**Please note: Only Mongolian citizens are eligible for this position**
Position Summary:
The Local Support Staff Consultant will provide administrative and coordination assistance, translation work, and prepare transcriptions/documentations for surveys and interviews.
Responsibilities:
- Provide support and assistance to the evaluation team, including administrative and logistical responsibilities for the conduct of data collection and other evaluation activities.
- Assist in the briefing on the final evaluation work plan before field work and in the provision of interim briefings during fieldwork.
- Coordinate the scheduling of evaluation activities with various stakeholders and offices to ensure that focus group discussions (FGDs), key informant interviews (KIIs), and surveys with activity stakeholders are conducted.
- Assist in conducting field research activities and other data collection activities as translator, including, but not limited to the conduct of KIIs, FGDs, and surveys.
- Assist in the consolidation of raw data gathered including photos, interview sheets and attendance sheets and in preparing transcriptions of interview recordings.
- Assist in the disaggregation of results by sex whenever applicable and the drawing out sex-specific conclusions and recommendations in the analysis.
- Provide administrative and logistical support during the Recommendations workshop and dissemination and learning session with USAID Mongolia and relevant stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in education, social work, social sciences, or related discipline is required.
- Minimum three years of experience in providing support services, preferably in evaluation engagements /studies/research, including interview coordination and scheduling, arranging travel, formatting of interview guides and survey questionnaires, and transcribing of interview recordings required.
- Fluency in Mongolian local language and professional written and oral communication skills in English required.
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