CHARITY JOBS IN AFRICA

Organization: Crown Agents USA
Country: Mali
Closing date: 21 Oct 2014

Crown Agents USA, Inc. (CA-USA) is seeking a

Senior M&E Specialist

for the USAID Mali Performance Monitoring & Evaluation Platform project in Mali.

Our Business

Crown Agents is an international development company employing over 600 personnel worldwide with a presence in more than 40 countries, subsidiaries in 12 countries, and permanent staff working on the ground in 22 corporate offices in Africa, Asia Latin America, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Crown Agents provides direct assistance, management consulting, and human and institutional development for public and private sector clients in customs and trade facilitation, public financial management, procurement, logistics, and health systems strengthening.

Crown Agents USA (CA-USA), the U.S. incorporated subsidiary of Crown Agents, provides direct technical assistance, capacity development, and procurement services to stimulate economic growth, establish good governance, and improve health outcomes across the developing world. Since its incorporation in the United States in 1998, CA-USA has provided technical assistance services and support to U.S. Government agencies and international organizations such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), Department of State (DOS), and the Gates Foundation.

Specific Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with USAID while leading the review of USAID Development Objective (DO) PMPs.

• Support PMP revisions such as results frameworks, performance indicators, targets, data sources, M&E roles and responsibilities, etc.

• Conduct M&E needs assessments and design and carry out on the job and class room training to address gaps.

• Designing field trip reporting tools and advise DO teams on their M&E work including field monitoring and Data Quality Assessments (DQA).

• Contribute to the design and field testing of evaluation methodologies, participatory data collection methods, data verification techniques, and other technical evaluation and analytical tasks.

• Ensure that the design, development, implementation and completion of all assessments, analytical reports and evaluations provide evidence based, defendable and action oriented findings and recommendations.

• Oversee, recruit for, and participate in evaluations, assessments and surveys.

• Ensure short-term technical experts and evaluation team members are of a high caliber and possess the required technical expertise.

• May serve as evaluation team leader of evaluations conducted under this contract.

Qualifications

• An advanced degree in the social sciences: statistics, economics, public policy, public health or other relevant field;
• Experience with performance indicator development, data collection and analysis, data quality assessments, and/or performance monitoring and reporting;
• Experience guiding technical teams in developing and updating Performance Management Plans (PMP) including theory of change, results frameworks, performance indicators, etc;
• Experience using performance monitoring data in project management;
• Experience designing and implementing performance and impact evaluations of development interventions;
• Experience designing and field testing surveys and other data collection instruments;
• Experience designing, working on and leading performance evaluations;
• Project management skills are desirable;
• Familiarity with USAID policies related to evaluation and performance management highly desirable;
• Strong written and oral communication and excellent interpersonal skills;
• Fluent in French and English.

How to apply:

Application Process

To apply to this position, please email your CV to careers@crownagents.com, including your name, along with “14-87B Senior M&E Specialist” in the subject line. Visit our website a twww.crownagentsusa.com for more information about our company. No phone calls, faxes or walk-ins please. Crown Agents USA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and affords equal opportunity to all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other status protected under local, state or federal laws.

Crown Agents USA will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with qualified disabilities in accordance with the ADA. If you require a reasonable accommodation for our application process, please contact our Recruiting department directly. Requests will be kept confidential and shared strictly on a need-to-know basis only.