Responsibilities
- Serve as the main point of contact for the contract with USAID and implementing partners
- Manage the effective deployment of technical staff and consultants to meet the diverse monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management services required by a regional mission and the 14 missions in the region
- Provide capacity building to USAID Missions and local implementing partners in monitoring and evaluation, and knowledge management
- Develop scopes of work for evaluations, and reviews results frameworks and theories of change
- Oversee the quality of timely reports, evaluations, analyses, assessments, and deliverables that meet USAID quality standards
- An advanced degree in a sector relevant to M&E (economics, public policy, statistics, political science, education, etc.)
- 12 years of demonstrated experience in development, particularly related to program strategy, project/activity design, and/or monitoring and evaluation
- Demonstrated leadership, strategic thinking, management, facilitation and presentation skills
- Prior experience serving as a Chief of Party, Project Director or Country Director
- Significant experience in indicator development, data collection and quantitative analysis, data quality assessments, and/or performance monitoring and reporting
- Strong communication, supervision, and management skills and experience; fluency in written and spoken English is required
- Experience creating and managing performance monitoring plans and building knowledge management systems
- Knowledge of USAID Evaluation policy and guidance
- Experience operating with a Collaborating, Learning, Adapting (CLA) approach preferred.
- Preferred: Previous experience working in South Africa either on long-term or short-term assignments.
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