Systems Strengthening Expert, DECODE, Remote
🔍 United States
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- International Development
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- Sep 27, 2024 Post Date
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- 21600002331 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 Data Ecosystems for Development in Education (DECODE) project supports the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Center for Education to strengthen the access, use, and amplification of locally led data and evidence. DECODE also ensures USAID has access to the relevant, high-quality, and timely data it needs to inform decision-making. The project is implemented by EnCompass LLC and its partners, MSI, Knowledge Partners LLC, APHRC, eKitabu, and SALT Analytics.
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Position Summary:
The Systems Strengthening Expert will provide thought leadership as the DECODE team prepares advice on how to integrate good practices around systems strengthening, resilience, and localization into USAID education programming across the education continuum. The Expert will have the support of an MSI staff-based Senior Advisor and MEL Expert as it develops deliverables and will interact extensively with USAID Headquarters and regional staff. Initially, this is for a contract of up to 60 days which will be awarded for approximately 10 months (October 2024-August 2025), which may be extended based on further requests by the client.
Responsibilities:
- Guide the teams’ evidence review by ensuring it includes cutting-edge research and thought leadership at a global, regional, and local level.
- Conduct USAID staff interviews and serve as an expert resource in participatory group discussions to identify the strengths of and gaps in the Agency’s systems strengthening approaches, opportunities for improvement, or needs for clarification.
- Co-author an internal white paper that provides a common understanding and definitions of key concepts in systems strengthening, and how these concepts interact to advance education policy and achieve sustainable learning outcomes, including examples of how these concepts are translated into practical theories of change and incorporated into meaningful metrics or indicators for MEL systems.
- Advise on content for technical guidance which will highlight evidence-based best practice in systems strengthening with activity examples, for USAID Mission audiences.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in education, international development, or related program required. PhD degree preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of experience as a Senior Technical Advisor on systems strengthening efforts in the education sector in low and/or middle-income countries, including in areas of de-centralization, local government capacity strengthening, social accountability, and/or education finance programming required.
- Field-based work experience for bilateral and/or multilateral donor partners in multiple partner countries required.
- Experience providing content for or served as lead author of peer-reviewed articles and/or publications on systems strengthening as a subject matter required.
- Experience directly advising ministries of education preferred.
- Proficiency in English required.
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