Chief of Party, Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism and Service, Mozambique
Company Profile:
Management Systems International (MSI) is an international development firm in the Washington, D.C., metro area with a 30-year history of helping to deliver results across the developing world. In 2008, we became part of Coffey International Limited. Since that time, we have greatly expanded our ability to respond seamlessly and flexibly to client needs with Coffey's international development offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. We operate in some of the most challenging political and economic climates in the world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and South Sudan. MSI currently employs 800 development experts in the fields of public sector management, monitoring and evaluation, governance, and anticorruption. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.
Proposal Summary:
The Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism and Service (MMEMS) project will work with Mission staff and its affiliated implementing partners to improve the mission’s performance planning monitoring and reporting systems, thereby making USAID/Mozambique a more effective and adaptive development organization. MMEMS will focus its effort on systems which will enable the Mission to fulfill its performance monitoring, evaluation, reporting and dissemination requirements, and improve the overall planning, design and management of its development activities. It will do this by facilitating improved activity management and learning capacity, improved monitoring and performance data and high quality and efficient evaluation services.
Position Summary:
The Chief of Party (COP) is responsible for leading and managing the overall complex operations of the MMEMS project. The COP works closely with USAID/Mozambique’s Program Office, Mission technical offices, staff and management from other USAID implementing partner-operated activities, and representatives of the Government of Mozambique and other international donor stakeholders to ensure that USAID’s assistance to Mozambique is informed by solid empirical evidence and analysis that can be
used by the Mission.
used by the Mission.
Responsibilities:
- Provide overall project vision, technical leadership and management.
- Achieve timely program results efficiently and in compliance USAID and US Government policies and procedures.
- Serve as the main point of contact for the contract with the USAID Mission, implementing partners, other donors, and the Government of Mozambique.
- Lead the work planning, progress, oversight, operations, and implementation by working through motivated mentored staff.
- Provide expertise on the project’s learning, knowledge and adaptive management driven, and analytical activities.
- Mentor local staff to engage capacity and actively contribute expertise to the Contract overall and provide strategic and operational direction.
- Oversee project management systems for finance and administration, logistics, human resources and strategic operation.
- Ensure the completion of time reports, evaluation, analyses, assessments, and deliverables that meet USAID quality control/assurance standards.
- Ensure compliance with the terms and conditions of the Contract.
Qualifications:
- Master’s 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.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of development professional experience working with issues related to planning, design, and performance management of international development assistance programs, preferably those funded by the USG.
- Significant expertise in leading the design and implementation of performance and impact evaluations of development interventions.
- Significant experience in indicator development, data collection and quantitative/statistical analysis, data quality assessments, and/or performance monitoring and reporting.
- Experience creating and managing performance monitoring plans.
- Strong written and oral communication and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Thorough working knowledge of USG operations, regulations, policies, procedures and programs desirable.
- Spoken and written ability in both English and Portuguese is required.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer.
MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer.
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