Senior Monitoring and Evaluation 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 Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist who will be responsible for providing technical advice and leadership on performance management and M&E practices within USAID/Ghana’s Education Office. The project is anticipated to be over five years, with potential start date March 2015.
SI is seeking a full-time Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist who will be responsible for providing technical advice and leadership on performance management and M&E practices within USAID/Ghana’s Education Office. 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:
- Oversee and implement monitoring and evaluation, analyses and assessments for the improvement of USAID/Ghana’s M&E practices.
- Provide technical advice to USAID/Ghana on the development of its M&E system.
- Design new M&E and performance management tools, practices and procedures to support evidence-based decision making and M&E in relation to the Partnership for Education project.
Qualifications:
- A Master’s degree in social sciences or other related discipline.
- Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in M&E systems, M&E oversight and performance management development on international development projects (in particular USAID-funded).
- Previous experience assessing M&E and performance management capacity within stakeholders and clients.
- Proven excellent collaboration working relationships with counterparts, other contractors and international organizations and donors.
- Strong communication, writing and interpersonal skills.
- Prior experience in Africa preferred.
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
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