Chief of Party, USAID/Ghana’s Partnership for Education: Early Grade Reading (EGR) Performance Management and Learning Activity, Ghana
Social Impact (SI) is a Washington, DC-area international development management consulting firm. SI’s mission is to improve the effectiveness of international development programs in improving people’s lives. We provide a full range of management consulting, technical assistance, and training services to strengthen international development programs, organizations, and policies. We provide services globally in the areas of monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, project and program design, organizational capacity building, and gender and social analysis. SI services cross-cut all development sectors including democracy and governance, health and education, the environment, and economic growth. SI’s clients include US government agencies such as USAID, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the US Department of State, bilateral donors, multilateral development banks, foundations, and non-profits.
Proposal Objective:
SI is implementing a five-year USAID Partnership for Education: Evaluating Systems project, with the goal to support the Ghana Ministry of Education (MOE), Ghana Education Service (GES) and other local organizations to create effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks, and encourage learning through impact and performance evaluations.
SI is implementing a five-year USAID Partnership for Education: Evaluating Systems project, with the goal to support the Ghana Ministry of Education (MOE), Ghana Education Service (GES) and other local organizations to create effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks, and encourage learning through impact and performance evaluations.
The purpose of the anticipated release of the five-year EGR Performance Management and Learning Task Order Activity is to create the conditions to enable the USAID/Ghana Education Office to design and implement a comprehensive performance management, monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management and reporting system in support of the Partnership for Education project. This will be accomplished through:
- Strengthening performance management processes and tools.
- Improving and expanding learning and knowledge management function to support management decision making and learning.
- Improving USAID/Ghana’s Education Office M&E practices and processes and increasing staff capacity for learning and adapting.
- Researching the societal and familial practices and administrative factors affecting early grade reading.
Position Description:
SI is seeking a full-time Chief of Party who will be responsible for oversight and management of the EGR Activity. The project is anticipated to be over five years, with potential start date March 2015.
SI is seeking a full-time Chief of Party who will be responsible for oversight and management of the EGR Activity. The project is anticipated to be over five years, with potential start date March 2015.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the Contractor Representative in Ghana and will be responsible for the activities of all long and short-term personnel.
- Work closely with USAID/Ghana’s Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) for smooth implementation of the Activity.
- Meet with USAID on a regular basis and represent the project before USAID/Ghana, GES, implementing partners and other stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including government officials, NGOs and community groups for smooth implementation.
- Mentor, support and supervise project staff and directly manage the key technical team.
- Facilitate the development of annual project work plans and budgets and ensure the timely submission and quality of all project reports, materials, and publications, compliant with the contract agreement.
- Ensure necessary program planning, development, resource availability and management activities function smoothly and efficiently.
Qualifications:
- A Master’s degree in social sciences or other related discipline.
- Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in M&E and project management of programs of similar scope and requirements in developing countries, preferably five of those 10 years would be experience gained in Africa implementing international donors-funded programs.
- Previous experience as project director or similar positions with a strong reputation for developing excellent collaborative working relationships with counterparts, other contractors and international organizations and donors.
- At least five years of experience in evaluations and/or assessments is required.
- Strong communication, writing and interpersonal skills.
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
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