DAI seeks a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for an anticipated five year, $33-35 million USAID-funded integrated agricultural productivity and nutrition project for Rwanda. The anticipated project, Sustainable Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Activity (SFAN), is expected to sustainably increase smallholder farmer incomes, improve the nutritional status of Rwandan women and children, and increase the resilience of the agriculture and food system to climate change.
Core Responsibilities:
The Senior M&E Specialist would be based in Kigali, Rwanda and would provide day-to-day leadership for all M&E and knowledge management activities for the anticipated project. S/he would lead Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) activities for the activity, would oversee data collection efforts, and ensure both the M&E system and results reporting meet the requirements of the Feed the Future (FTF) initiative. S/he will lead a system for continuous communication with the two established external evaluation partners, and demonstrate an ability to take critical inputs, feedback, and assessments from evaluation partners to inform changes in program approaches and scale-up. S/he shall ensure that these and other program components are results-oriented. This individual will have a major focus on achieving results in all areas assuring that team members are poised to deliver services on schedule.
Experience Requirements:
- Seven (7) years of progressively responsible work experience in managing complex project of similar size;
- Five (5) years of monitoring and evaluation work at the supervisory level preferred;
- Experience designing and overseeing M&E data collection and reporting for agriculture/food security projects, with Feed the Future reporting experience also preferred;
- Demonstrated research design and analytical skills with 5 years of agriculture research or monitoring and evaluation experience in a development setting in Africa;
- Work experience on USAID-funded projects or other international donor experience is preferred;
- Demonstrated ability to implement, operationalize, and manage information collection and assessment systems;
- Demonstrated ability to create and manage information data bases using appropriate software applications; strong writing, reporting, and presentational skills;
- Familiarity with gender issues in monitoring and evaluation and an understanding of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) would be a plus; and
- Master’s Degree or equivalent in business administration or related area of study or equivalent work experience (specialized training in M&E is required).
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested candidates are invited to apply to DAI directly at:https://chm.tbe.taleo.net/chm04/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=DAINC&cws=1&rid=2692.
