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.

Organization: The Mitchell Group
Country: Mali
Closing date: 06 Oct 2014

The Mitchell Group, Inc. (TMG), an international development consulting firm based in Washington, DC, is currently seeking expressions of interest from qualified applicants for a Senior M&E Specialist position in support of a potential project in Mali. This individual will be responsible for leading and managing the technical work related to performance monitoring under this contract. The individual will oversee, recruit for, and participate in evaluations and assessments and baseline surveys throughout the life of the contract. S/he will ensure the short-term technical experts and evaluation team members recruited under this contract are of a high caliber and possess the required technical expertise. The Senior M&E Specialist may also serve as the evaluation team leader of select evaluations conducted under this contract.

The proposed Senior M&E Specialist must have the following qualifications, education and/or experience:

• An advanced university degree in the social sciences, in particular: statistics, economics, public policy, public health or other relevant field. Desirable Experience:
• Indicator development, data collection and analysis, data quality assessments, and/or performance
• monitoring and reporting.
• Strong quantitative skills.
• Providing guidance to technical teams in developing and updating Performance Management Plans.
• Creating and managing Performance Management Plans.
• Leveraging performance monitoring data for improving ongoing project management.
• Designing and implementing performance and impact evaluations of development interventions.
• Designing and field testing surveys and other data collection instruments.
• Designing, working on and preferably leading an evaluation team.
• 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

The anticipated Roles of the Senior M&E Specialist are, but not limited to, the following:

• Lead/oversee the review of PMPs, and support such technical work as reviewing reporting methods; carrying out training needs; designing tools and advising DO teams on their M&E work, including field monitoring and DQAs.
• 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 conducted under this contract.
• S/he will be responsible for the design, quality, development and completion of all assessments, analytical reports and evaluations.

How to apply:

Interested and qualified candidates should submit the following documents as MS Word files via e-mail to courochek@the-mitchellgroup.com and zubairq@the-mitchellgroup.com. In the subject line, please indicate “Senior M&E Specialist Position - Mali”. CV’s/resumes will be reviewed as they are received. Early application is encouraged. No phone calls please. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

• Completed and signed USAID form No. AID 1420-17
• Brief cover letter that includes a one paragraph summary of your key qualifications
• Current CV/résumé with references.

This position will be for a project with a duration of up to five years.

Organization: Crown Agents USA
Country: Mozambique
Closing date: 22 Oct 2014

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

M&E Manager

for an anticipated USAID SAFRA Project located in Mozambique.

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.

Project Description

The SAFRA M&E system will provide the full array of Feed the Future (FTF) performance monitoring services including theory of change development; results framework specification; performance indicator definition; data source identification; indicator target setting; baseline and update performance data collection/compilation/quality checking/transmission/archiving; quarterly and annual reporting to USAID/Mozambique; and knowledge management. The SAFRA M&E system’s purpose is to inform routine, operational and strategic decision making with accurate and timely performance data. The M&E unit will provide a significant amount of M&E capacity building to SAFRA implementing partners, service providers, and community based organizations and government agencies.

Specific Responsibilities

Serving directly under the SAFRA M&E Director, the M&E Manager will be responsible for contributing to the design and implementation of the SAFRA M&E system at the provincial level. The SAFRA M&E Manager will be responsible for assisting the M&E Director with day to day operation of the SAFRA M&E system. S/he will be based in Maputo (1), Mozambique or in a provincial capital (4). Each provincial capital based M&E manager will supervise 2 to 5 M&E specialists, trainers, data quality monitors, and data entry staff.

Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience with agricultural, food security and nutrition project performance monitoring;
• College/university degree in agricultural economics, economics, international development, health and nutrition, M&E or a related field;
• Experience contributing to the initiation and management of a developing country donor project performance monitoring system;
• Excellent and demonstrated MS Excel, MS Access and other data base management and data analysis software experience;
• Excellent and demonstrated team work skills;
• Demonstrated written and oral English communication skills;
• Significant experience with USAID’s Feed the Future M&E requirements is strongly desired;
• Ability to speak Portuguese strongly desired;
• Experience living and working in southern Africa and/or Mozambique is strongly desired;

How to apply:

Application Process

To apply to this position, please email your CV to careers@crownagents.com. Include your name, along with “#14-66B, M&E Manager SAFRA”, 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.

Organization: Crown Agents USA
Country: Mozambique
Closing date: 22 Oct 2014

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

M&E Data Officer

for an anticipated USAID SAFRA Project located in Mozambique.

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.

Project Description

The SAFRA M&E system will provide the full array of Feed the Future (FTF) performance monitoring services including theory of change development; results framework specification; performance indicator definition; data source identification; indicator target setting; baseline and update performance data collection/compilation/quality checking/transmission/archiving; quarterly and annual reporting to USAID/Mozambique; and knowledge management. The SAFRA M&E system’s purpose is to inform routine, operational and strategic decision making with accurate and timely performance data. The M&E unit will provide a significant amount of M&E capacity building to SAFRA implementing partners, service providers, and community based organizations and government agencies.

Specific Responsibilities

The SAFRA Data Officers (10) will assist the M&E Director (in Maputo) and the M&E Manager (in four provincial capitals) with day to day operation of the SAFRA M&E system. S/he will be based in Maputo (2), Mozambique or in a provincial capital (8). The Data Officers will compile and input performance data into the SAFRA performance monitoring system, check data quality, address data quality shortfalls, provide suggestions for data entry improvements, archive data and maintain data archives.

Qualifications

• 2 years’ experience with agricultural, food security and nutrition or related project performance data entry and archiving;
• College/university degree in computer science, agricultural economics, economics, international development, health and nutrition, M&E or a related field;
• Experience contributing to the initiation and management of a developing country donor project performance monitoring system;
• Excellent and demonstrated MS Excel, MS Access and other data base management and data analysis software experience;
• Excellent and demonstrated team work skills;
• Demonstrated written and oral English communication skills;
• Experience with USAID’s Feed the Future M&E requirements strongly desired;
• Ability to speak Portuguese strongly desired;
• Experience living and working in southern Africa and/or Mozambique strongly desired;

How to apply:

Application Process

To apply to this position, please email your CV to careers@crownagents.com. Include your name, along with “#14-66C, M&E Data Officer SAFRA”, in the subject line. Visit our website at www.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.

Organization: The Mitchell Group
Country: Mali
Closing date: 06 Oct 2014

The Mitchell Group, Inc. (TMG), an international development consulting firm based in Washington, DC, is currently seeking expressions of interest from qualified applicants for a Senior M&E Specialistposition in support of a potential project in Mali. This individual will be responsible for leading and managing the technical work related to performance monitoring under this contract. The individual will oversee, recruit for, and participate in evaluations and assessments and baseline surveys throughout the life of the contract. S/he will ensure the short-term technical experts and evaluation team members recruited under this contract are of a high caliber and possess the required technical expertise. The Senior M&E Specialist may also serve as the evaluation team leader of select evaluations conducted under this contract.

The proposed Senior M&E Specialist must have the following qualifications, education and/or experience:

• An advanced university degree in the social sciences, in particular: statistics, economics, public policy, public health or other relevant field. Desirable Experience:
• Indicator development, data collection and analysis, data quality assessments, and/or performance monitoring and reporting.
• Strong quantitative skills.
• Providing guidance to technical teams in developing and updating Performance Management Plans.
• Creating and managing Performance Management Plans.
• Leveraging performance monitoring data for improving ongoing project management.
• Designing and implementing performance and impact evaluations of development interventions.
• Designing and field testing surveys and other data collection instruments.
• Designing, working on and preferably leading an evaluation team.
• 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

The anticipated Roles of the Senior M&E Specialist are, but not limited to, the following:

• Lead/oversee the review of PMPs, and support such technical work as reviewing reporting methods; carrying out training needs; designing tools and advising DO teams on their M&E work, including field monitoring and DQAs.
• 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 conducted under this contract.
• S/he will be responsible for the design, quality, development and completion of all assessments, analytical reports and evaluations.

How to apply:

Interested and qualified candidates should submit the following documents as MS Word files via e-mail to courochek@the-mitchellgroup.com and zubairq@the-mitchellgroup.com. In the subject line, please indicate “Senior M&E Specialist Position - Mali”. CV’s/resumes will be reviewed as they are received. Early application is encouraged. No phone calls please. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

• Completed and signed USAID form No. AID 1420-17
• Brief cover letter that includes a one paragraph summary of your key qualifications
• Current CV/résumé with references.

This position will be for a project with a duration of up to five years.

Organization: FHI 360
Country: Mozambique
Closing date: 14 Oct 2014

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts in Health, Education, Nutrition, Environment, Economic Development, Civil Society, Gender, Youth, Research and Technology; creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today's interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 60 countries, all 50 U.S. states and all U.S. territories. We are currently seeking qualified candidates for the position of M&E Specialist - Nutritionfor the upcoming ****S****trengthening Agribusiness and Fostering Rural Alimentation (SAFRA) Project******that aims to promote agriculture value chains and food security development, improve nutrition and health status and poverty reduction.

Project Description:

The M&E Specialist will responsible for managing the monitoring and evaluation system for the nutrition component of the project and advising project partners on M&E issues in the nutrition domain. The main responsibility of the M&E Specialist will be to align with the overall Project M&E framework and ensure that reporting requirements and accurate, meaningful and timely data for use in project management is collated, analyzed and used.

Job Summary / Responsibilities:

• Work closely under the oversight of the M&E Project team to ensure a robust M&E system is functional.
• Work closely with the team and provide capacity strengthening to ensure collection, analysis and reporting, against donor and project required indicators.
• Develop and directly contribute to the development and implementation of M&E tools and systems to improve ability to collect, interpret and aggregate data that demonstrate impact and program accountability and progress.
• Develop and support the design and implementation of baseline, mid-term and end of project evaluations, surveys and other components of the programs M&E system as needed.
• Provide M&E technical advice partners, including staffing and resource allocation to M&E in the area of nutrition specific and sensitive programming.
• Develop high quality quantitative and qualitative methods and participatory methodologies to monitor program quality for performance and results.
• Build upon industry and experiences to improve consistency, quality and practicality of M&E strategies; promote dissemination and use.

Qualifications:

• Post-graduate degree (Master’s Degree or higher) in social science, development, statistics or related field is required.
• Familiarity with Feed the Future programming preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years in M&E of international, multilateral, and/or USG-funded programs is preferred.
• Experience supporting education and health activities is preferred.
• Prior management and supervision experience are preferred.
• Demonstrated capacity in performance management and strategic design at the project level are preferred.
• Experience in the design, conduct and analysis of research studies (quantitative and qualitative) is preferred.
• Ability to work with colleagues in diverse cultures is preferred.
• Ability to work effectively and harmoniously as part of a team with other staff is required.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and diplomatic skills for building and maintaining good relationships with government counterparts and other stakeholders is preferred.
• Computer literacy with demonstrated use of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point) is required.
• Experience with database development and management in Access (or something similar) is preferred.
• Experience using mapping (e.g., Arc-GIS etc.), and statistical analysis software
• (SPSS®, Epi STATA®, SAS®, or similar) preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English required.

FHI 360's Career Center at http://www.fhi360.org/careers or through the Employment section at www.fhi360.org. Please submit CV/resume and cover letter including salary requirements. Please specify source in your application.

FHI 360 is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. FHI 360 is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or status as a veteran with respect to policies, programs, or activities.

How to apply:

https://jobs-fhi360.icims.com/jobs/14780/m%26e-specialist-nutrition/job

Organization: Crown Agents USA
Country: Mozambique
Closing date: 22 Oct 2014

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

M&E Director

for an anticipated USAID SAFRA Project located in Mozambique.

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.

Project Description

The SAFRA M&E system will provide the full array of Feed the Future (FTF) performance monitoring services including theory of change development; results framework specification; performance indicator definition; data source identification; indicator target setting; baseline and update performance data collection/compilation/quality checking/transmission/archiving; quarterly and annual reporting to USAID/Mozambique; and knowledge management. The SAFRA M&E system’s purpose is to inform routine, operational and strategic decision making with accurate and timely performance data. The M&E unit will provide a significant amount of M&E capacity building to SAFRA implementing partners, service providers, and community based organizations and government agencies.

Specific Responsibilities

The SAFRA M&E Director will oversee day to day M&E system operation. S/he will be based in Maputo, Mozambique and supervise 15 to 20 M&E specialists, trainers, data quality monitors, data entry and data archiving staff stationed in Maputo and four provincial offices. Serving directly under the SAFRA Chief of Party (COP) the M&E Director will have full authority for M&E system budget management, work planning, human resources and reporting.

Qualifications

• 10 years’ experience with agricultural, food security and nutrition project performance monitoring and knowledge management;
• Advanced academic degree in agricultural economics, economics, international development, health and nutrition, M&E or a related field;
• Experience setting up and managing a developing country donor project performance monitoring system;
• Excellent and demonstrated team work and leadership skills;
• Excellent and demonstrated written and oral English communication skills;
• Excellent and demonstrated MS Excel, MS Access and other data base management and data analysis software experience.
• Significant experience with USAID’s Feed the Future M&E requirements is strongly desired;
• Ability to speak Portuguese is strongly desired;
• Experience living and working in southern Africa and/or Mozambique is strongly desired;

How to apply:

Application Process

To apply to this position, please email your CV to careers@crownagents.com. Include your name, along with “#14-66A, M&E Director”, in the subject line. Visit our website at www.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.