Deputy Chief of Party, Liberia Strategic Analysis Activity, Liberia

Deputy Chief of Party, Liberia Strategic Analysis Project, Liberia

Proposal Summary:

The Liberia Strategic Analysis (LSA) Project will provide an innovative degree of analytical and advisory services to USAID/Liberia’s Office of Program and Project Development (PPD) and Development Objective (DO) teams in support of the Mission’s project design, performance monitoring and evaluation, and operational learning and adapting. The project will independently manage and complete assigned assessment, analytical, learning, knowledge mobilization, and knowledge management tasks and deliverables.

Liberian nationals are encouraged to apply for this position.

Position Summary:

The Deputy Chief of Party’s responsibility will be to provide support, leadership and technical
expertise to the overall management of the Liberia Strategic Analysis (LSA) Project. In addition to providing key support to the Chief of Party on all management areas under his/her direct supervision, the successful candidate will serve as the senior M&E Advisor to the LSA project. A strong background in monitoring, evaluability assessments, analysis, and implementation of performance evaluations of development assistance programs and experience in the application of statistical methods is desirable. In addition, the selected individual will have substantial evaluation (both performance and impact evaluation) design expertise, and experience in performance monitoring and evaluation in complex environments.

Responsibilities:

• Develop resources to create, capture, organize, translate, share, and apply knowledge to improve USAID Liberia’s programs.
• Build capacity for adapting to new learning and changes in context through effective approaches.
• Coordinate knowledge sharing and strategic learning to speed innovation and bring new innovations to mission’s programmatic work in country.
• Serve as the lead senior Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) advisor to the LSA.
• Provide leadership and guidance on the overall monitoring and evaluation, and help make Mission’s IPs become learning and adaptive partners for all USAID’s assistance efforts in Liberia through creating strategic sub/mini IP internal and strategic learning/KM activities.
• Provide thorough leadership by supporting strategic learning and knowledge management.
• Provide support to the COP to ensure that the project meets all its reporting requirements.
• Provide technical quality control over M&E related services, including reviewing proposed evaluation methodologies, implementing agency monitoring and reporting systems, and overseeing surveys.
• Work with COP and CLA/KMA, ensuring that monitoring and evaluation information is shared and fully utilized through knowledge sharing and strategic learning processes to speed innovation and improve upon and bring new innovations to the Mission’s programmatic work in country.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of five 8 years professional work experience managing complex donor-funded international development capacity building or training activities.
• MA or PhD in a field relevant to development assistance, international affairs, political science, sociology, economics, business, public administration, organizational development, communications, or a closely related field
• Significant expertise in monitoring, evaluation, and/or project design and analytical work as well as the related reporting to an international donor.
• Proven skill in working with both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and analysis.
• Must be computer literate and possess excellent reading, writing, and communication skills.

Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
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