Team Leader - VISTAS, MESP USAID/South Sudan, Juba, South Sudan

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Project Summary: **
The Monitoring and Evaluation Support Project (MESP) in Juba supports the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in South Sudan to effectively monitor, evaluate, learn from-, and improve USAID-funded interventions. MESP provides USAID/South Sudan with flexible, demand-driven technical, analytic, advisory, training, monitoring, evaluation, and related support services for performance measurement, planning, monitoring, evaluation, reporting, activity mapping, and performance information management and dissemination activities. These services assist the Mission in complying with new evaluation, monitoring, and project design requirements under USAID Forward. They also include monitoring and evaluation technical support to the Mission for performance management at all levels.

Position Summary:
The Team Leader will take full responsibility for managing the team, organizing its work, and ensuring quality control and delivery of a final report acceptable to USAID standards. The team Leader will participate in the Team Planning Meeting and other preparation meetings as well as providing leadership in the creation of evaluation instruments and tools, conducting interviews, providing leadership in report writing and presentations.

Responsibilities:

• Pre-Field Work Briefing
  • Participate in the Team Planning Meeting and other preparation meetings as well as in selection of appropriate data collection methodologies, sampling and creation of corresponding interview instruments;
  • Review documents as part of literature review and prepare a summary report of the literature review;
  • Present inception report and approaches detailing the evaluation design to USAID in an oral presentation and review meeting in which USAID may raise questions and issues and request adjustments, if necessary, to that plan prior to the start of field work. This meeting will be held within 1 work day after the submission of the team's inception report which USAID will approve, request adjustments or reject the team's inception report and evaluation design within 1 work day after this meeting is held.
• Field Work
  • Manage the data collection process including allocation of tasks to team members and ensuring the quality of the data being collected;
  • Conduct interviews with identified respondents including governments, local CBOs, USAID or others as identified;
  • Take leadership in drafting the evaluation report or presentations.
• Post-Field Work Review
  • Take leadership in the briefings/oral presentations and reviews which serve as a checkpoint on the completeness of the mid-term evaluation team's data and analysis on each of the evaluation questions and on the clarity of the flow of the team's presentation of its findings, conclusions and recommendations.
• Draft Report
  • Take leadership in drafting the evaluation report, preparing in accordance with USAID's “How to Prepare and Evaluation Report guidance”.
  • Debrief the wider audience that include, USAID team, implementing partner (s), government invitees, and any other interested stakeholder.
• Final Report
  • Lead the finalization of the report by incorporating USAID and stakeholder comments, and submit the report to MSI electronically.
  • Submit all the quantitative and qualitative data sets obtained as a result of the evaluation to MSI including all documents, slides, etc

Qualifications:

• A Master's degree in international development, evaluation, political science, or a related social science.
• At least 10 years of experience in international development, 5 of which should be working in a developing country context in the field of political transformations or engagements of a similar nature
• Demonstrated experience evaluating and/or managing political transition or conflict mitigation programs that operate through a grants-under-contract mechanism such as that of VISTAS
• Strong analytical and report writing skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of leading large scale studies
• Fluency in spoken and written English.
• A sound knowledge of understanding USAID programming approaches and methodologies will be an added advantage

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