Senior Capacity Building Specialist, 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 Senior Capacity Building Specialist who will be responsible for developing the capacity of USAID/Ghana in M&E and knowledge management of USAID/Ghana’s Education Office for sustainable learning and adapting. The project is anticipated to be over five years, with potential start date March 2015.
SI is seeking a full-time Senior Capacity Building Specialist who will be responsible for developing the capacity of USAID/Ghana in M&E and knowledge management of USAID/Ghana’s Education Office for sustainable learning and adapting. The project is anticipated to be over five years, with potential start date March 2015.
Please note: Ghanaian citizens are highly encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities:
- Assess USAID/Ghana’s M&E capacity, developing capacity development plans, and organizing and managing the implementation of all capacity building activities under the EGR Activity.
- Lead the development and implementation of the activities related to training and capacity building in M&E.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
- Minimum of seven years proven work experience in the field of monitoring and evaluation and institutional capacity building.
- Demonstrated skills in M&E system design, methodologies (quantitative and qualitative) and approaches, especially under USAID-funded projects.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively with host country counterparts and government officials.
- Minimum of seven years of experience in training, consulting or on-the-job coaching.
- Demonstrated leadership and mentoring abilities.
- Excellent written and oral communications skills.
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