CHARITY JOBS IN AFRICA

Organization: Chemonics
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Closing date: 15 Nov 2014

Chemonics seeks a senior monitoring and evaluation specialist for the anticipated Equitable Access to Education and Learning Project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The five-year project, funded by USAID and UK Department for International Development (DFID), aims to improve equitable educational outcomes for girls and boys by increasing school enrollments, improving education quality, and improving governance and accountability by stakeholders in the education system. Project activities will support improved learning outcomes in public primary schools and in schools aided by religious networks recognized by the government of the DRC in the provinces of Katanga, Kasai Occidental, and Equator. Efforts to support access for out-of-school youth to accelerated learning programs will target South Kivu and North Kivu. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.

Responsibilities include:

• Establish and manage a monitoring and evaluation system to track progress toward meeting program/contract results, indicators, and targets
• Ensure that performance monitoring, action research, and evaluations are consistent with program results
• Manage and coordinate provincial and district monitoring and evaluation specialists and any administrative staff responsible for performance monitoring, oversight, or data collection and reporting
• Ensure that the methodologies proposed to measure program impact on increased access to education, retention, improved learning outcomes, school safety, community engagement, and gender- and disability-inclusive and conflict-sensitive measures are being consistently and systematically tracked and reported

Qualifications:

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent in the social sciences or a related field required
• Minimum eight years of experience designing, monitoring, and evaluating programs
• Experience in monitoring results and indicators of education quality, access, and community management preferred
• Capability in all necessary computer, database, statistical, and analytical skills necessary for monitoring and evaluation
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility and integrity
• Professional working proficiency in English (level 3 on the Foreign Service Institute scale) and full professional proficiency in French (level 4 on the Foreign Service Institute scale)

How to apply:

Send electronic submissions to DRCEducationRecruit@chemonics.com by November 15, 2014. Please include the name of the position in the subject line. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted.

In addition, please download and complete Chemonics’ equal employment opportunity self-identification form and submit it separately to EEOselfidentify@chemonics.com with only "Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist - DRC Education" in the subject line. If you prefer not to disclose your sex, race, or ethnicity, you may check “I do not wish to complete the information requested.” Thank you for completing the form and supporting our equal employment opportunity reporting requirements.

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