Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, MEASURE
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:
The U.S. State Department-funded Monitoring, Evaluation and Audit Service for Ukraine (MEASURE) project provides support to the Office of the U.S. Assistance Coordinator for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia (EUR/ACE) to oversee multiple areas of effort of non-humanitarian and non-military support for Ukraine and ensure the funds are directed toward the foreign policy and foreign assistance objectives for which they are intended. Monitoring data is analyzed and reported to all U.S. Government (USG) partners involved in Ukraine assistance, Congress, and others. It will be used to make judgments as to the effectiveness of programs to meet USG foreign assistance objectives. Also, MEASURE will support U.S. Government partners in having systems and frameworks in place to monitor the effectiveness of the assistance.
**Please note: Only Ukrainian citizens are eligible for this position.**
Position Summary:
The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist position will provide M&E technical support to USG agencies and implementing partners (IPs) in Ukraine, as requested by the Department of State. The Senior M&E Specialist will work closely with the Field Team Leader to oversee, coordinate, and ensure the quality of the work of the technical teams, including the review and development of M&E frameworks with USG agencies and IPs. Additionally, the Senior M&E Specialist will support the effective management of all stakeholders, both US- and Ukraine-based.
Responsibilities:
- Support the Field Team Leader in all technical areas, including coordination of the work of the technical team, quality assurance, and management of key stakeholders.
- Identify needs within the expert team for further training and support.
- Undertake line management responsibilities of members of the technical team potentially.
- Support USG agencies and IPs to develop M&E frameworks, logic models and indicators, and other M&E-related documentation to help them continue to assess their progress toward achieving their goals.
- Review data collection instruments and processes to ensure that collected data is valid, reliable, and timely.
- Support the design and implementation of evaluability assessments for clusters of projects.
- Design and perform data quality assessments.
- Support the development of terms of references for evaluations and oversee the work of short-term experts involved in the evaluations.
- Design and implement primary data collection through observations, key informant interviews, and focus groups at partner assistance sites to ensure that partner interventions are being implemented as designed and that partner data collection approaches are being implemented in the field at sufficient rigor to assess results where necessary.
- Analyze data and synthesize research findings into succinct reporting.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in social sciences, international development, economics, or other fields closely related to monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) required.
- Minimum six years of experience in international development with minimum three years of concentrated experience in applied data collection, including research or MEL data collection, required.
- Experience with USG-funded development programs and MEL systems for USG-funded programs is required.
- Familiarity with donor-funded programming in Ukraine is required.
- Strong background in MEL processes and knowledge of MEL tools required.
- Strong written and spoken English is required. Proficiency in Ukrainian is highly desirable.
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