Evidence Specialist, Ethiopia Learning Analytics Activity
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- International Development
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- Aug 21, 2024 Post Date
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- 21600002283 Requisition #
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 USAID/Ethiopia Learning Analytics Activity will provide advanced, cutting-edge collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) support for USAID/Ethiopia’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) and its development objectives. The contract will support the Mission in planning, designing, conducting, disseminating, and learning from evidence on its development activities. It will focus on deliberate learning, with the intention of driving program results faster than traditional MEL activities. The contract will also enhance the institutional capacity of host country and local partners to improve CLA capacity, their accountability, and their use of evidence for programming, learning and adapting. This contract is a five-year project, ending in April 2028.
**Please note: Only Ethiopian citizens are eligible for this position**
Position Summary:
The Evidence Specialist will support the Director of Evidence to coordinate all monitoring, evaluation and research services needed to provide evidence for learning under the USAID/Ethiopia LAA Contract.
Responsibilities:
- Compile evidence across a wide variety of sources on the performance of USAID projects and the development environment in Ethiopia, including analysis of USAID implementing partner performance metrics, compilation of studies from other donors/sources, implementation of research and evaluation studies and assessments, particularly with rapid, non-traditional approaches, analysis of datasets sourced from government and other sources, and any other sources of evidence the team can find.
- Work with USAID to design scopes of work for rapid research projects, mini-evaluations, traditional evaluations, and other evidence creation efforts.
- Collaborate with research and evaluation teams to design approaches that are more rapid than traditional MEL efforts while still rigorous.
- Draft research/evaluation reports for review by Director of Evidence.
- Work with USAID and the Director of Evidence to ensure that performance monitoring data provided to USAID by implementing partners is optimized to support learning.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a social science, development studies, economics, or related field required. Master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum seven years of experience developing and managing monitoring and evaluation field research, evaluations, special studies, and assessments required.
- Minimum five years of experience managing staff carrying out monitoring and evaluation efforts required.
- Experience working on program evaluation teams and/or overseeing evaluations required.
- Experience designing and implementing performance monitoring systems for international donor projects required, preferably for USAID.
- Experience integrating CLA into MEL programming required.
- Experience planning and implementing Third Party Monitoring (TPM) preferred.
- Ability to innovate new approaches to generating evidence.
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English and Amharic required.
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