Senior Monitoring And Evaluation Advisor, Monitoring And Evaluation Mission M&E Project, Rwanda

Company Profile:  MSI is a Washington, D.C.-based international development firm providing specialized short- and long-term technical

assistance. Since its 1981 founding, MSI has grown in size and technical scope, now implementing and managing more than 70 projects worldwide. More than 30 are long-term, many in conflict-prone or fragile states that include Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Today, our range of technical expertise includes analytical and field projects in democracy and governance, economic growth, strategic planning, organizational capacity building, health and the justice sector. MSI focuses on helping our local partners foster progress, manage change and improve the effectiveness of development assistance. We expanded our global footprint in 2008 by becoming part of Coffey, a leading geoscience, international development and project management firm, and a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange. Alongside Coffey, MSI has corporate offices in 17 countries. Together, MSI and Coffey employ more than 1,400 professionals worldwide. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.

 

Proposal Summary:

The anticipated USAID-funded Monitoring and Evaluation Mission M&E Project will provide on-the-ground support on performance monitoring,

data verification, evaluation of the impact, output and outcome results and environmental compliance of the USAID/Rwanda program

portfolio, covering the following technical areas:

• Health
• Education
• Economic Growth
• Trade
• Agriculture
• Food Security
• Water/Sanitation
• Conflict Mitigation

 

Position Summary:

MSI is recruiting for a Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist to oversee monitoring and evaluation, analyses and assessments throughout the life of the project, including the data collection, design of the evaluation methodology and participatory data collection methods and protocols, and data quality verification techniques.

 

**Please note: This is a local position. Only candidates with Rwandan citizenship will be considered.**

 

Responsibilities:

• Responsible the design, quality development and production of all necessary evaluations reports.
• Conduct assessments, population based surveys and studies including the testing of the development hypotheses.
• Design of the evaluation methodology, participatory data collection methods and protocols for both performance and impact evaluations.
• Coordinate and be responsible for all data collection, monitoring, report generation, evaluation and related tasks.
• Oversee, recruit for and ensure short-term technical experts and evaluation team members are of a high caliber and possess the required technical expertise.
• Oversee the maintenance of Mission and IPs PMPs.
• Serve as the evaluation team leader of select evaluations conducted under this contract as needed.
• Contribute substantively to the design and field testing of the evaluation methodology, participatory data collection methods and protocols, data verification techniques, and other technical evaluation and analytical tasks.

 

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in International Development, Statistics or Economics; or a Master’s degree with minimum of five years demonstrated experience in the requested field
• At least ten years of demonstrated experience in the design and management of evaluations (impact and performance), analyses and assessments, including the dosing of the evaluation methodology, population based surveys, developing performance management plans, participatory data collection methods and protocols, and data quality verification techniques from large development projects.
• Ability to provide expert guidance to technical teams in developing and updating performance monitoring plans.
• Demonstrated M&E experience on USAID-funded projects in East and Southern Africa.
• Experience leading an evaluation team.
• Familiarity with current USAID policies related to evaluation and performance management.
• Fluency in French and English is strongly preferred.

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

 

 

To apply: Please visit our website, www.msiworldwide.com

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Organization Description

Company Profile:  MSI is a Washington, D.C.-based international development firm providing specialized short- and long-term technical assistance. Since its 1981 founding, MSI has grown in size and technical scope, now implementing and managing more than 70 projects worldwide. More than 30 are long-term, many in conflict-prone or fragile states that include Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and South Sudan. Today, our range of technical expertise includes analytical and field projects in democracy and governance, economic growth, strategic planning, organizational capacity building, health and the justice sector. MSI focuses on helping our local partners foster progress, manage change and improve the effectiveness of development assistance. We expanded our global footprint in 2008 by becoming part of Coffey, a leading geoscience, international development and project management firm, and a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange. Alongside the international development arm of Coffey, MSI has corporate offices in 17 countries. Together, MSI and Coffey employ more than 1,400 professionals worldwide. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.