Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Advisor, USAID/Uganda Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Activity, Uganda
Company Profile: MSI, a Tetra Tech Company, is a Washington, DC metro area international development firm with a 35-year history of delivering development results across the world. Our core expertise is in the fields of monitoring and evaluation (M&E), institutional development, public sector management, governance and anti-corruption. MSI implements nearly 100 projects in 90 countries around the world such as Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Colombia, and Mexico. As one of the leading companies in our field, MSI has partnered with more than 80 organizations across all sectors of international development with clients ranging from large bilateral and multilateral donors such as USAID, the World Bank and the UNDP to national and local governments, NGOs, think tanks, foundations and universities. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.
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Proposal Summary: **
MSI is preparing to bid on the USAID/Uganda Organizational Development Activity. The anticipated focus of the project is to enhance the organizational effectiveness and adaptive capacity of USAID/Uganda and its development partners in order to increase USAID effectiveness in achieving its development results goals. This is a five-year project.
Position Summary:
MSI is looking for a Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Advisor to assist the mission in maximizing the learning it obtains from the monitoring and evaluation assignments conducted by the project so that it may effectively adapt its programs to generate stronger impact.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the USAID/Uganda Mission to develop strategies to strengthen USAIDs collaborating, learning and adapting interventions.
- Convene learning events to disseminate and reflect on monitoring and evaluation data, findings and conclusions generated by the project
- Design an organizational assessment of the Mission which will result in recommendations to improve USAID/Uganda’s appreciation of collaborating, learning, and adapting, leadership and management styles, time and meeting management, and other practices.
- Identify and establish working relationships with national and regional academic and research institutions which would serve as part of a development learning and knowledge management community-of-practice and would facilitate USAID’s engagement with cutting-edge practitioners of organizational development.
- Establish a network of key stakeholders and organize periodic opportunities for USAID to interact with representatives for the purpose of improving implementation, learning and performance.
- Investigate the potential for a portal for learning and knowledge management. Support the Mission’s involvement in a potential multi-donor, shared resource center.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 8-10 years of experience working in international development.
- Minimum 5-7 years of experience across a combination of project design, monitoring, evaluation, learning and/or knowledge management, including experience facilitating the use of monitoring, evaluation or research findings to generate learning to improve development programs.
- A Master’s degree in organizational learning, knowledge management, development studies, development evaluation and management, or other relevant fields of study.
- Prior experience working on donor funded mechanisms, familiarity with USAID program cycle preferred.
- Be fully conversant with the latest organizational learning approaches and tools covering strategic planning and execution, leadership, management development, organizational design, and engagement strategies.
- Fluency in spoken and written English is required.
- Three years of experience living and working in developing country environments, preferably in sub-Saharan Africa.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer.
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