Social Impact (SI) is a Washington, DC-area international development management consulting firm. SI’s mission is to improve the effectiveness of international development programs in improving people’s lives. We provide a full range of management consulting, technical assistance, and training services to strengthen international development programs, organizations, and policies. We provide services globally in the areas of monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, project and program design, organizational capacity building, and gender and social analysis. SI services cross-cut all development sectors including democracy and governance, health, education, the environment, and economic growth. SI’s clients include U.S. government agencies such as USAID, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the U.S. Department of State, bilateral donors, multilateral development banks, foundations and non-profits.
Proposal Objective:
Social Impact is pursuing the upcoming five-year approximately $10-25 million Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Knowledge Management Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract for USAID/Southern Africa. The goal of this mechanism is to create a central platform for procurement of support services that will strengthen, support and facilitate USAID’s Monitoring and Evaluation; Collaborating, Learning and Adapting; and Knowledge Management practices and approaches within USAID Missions and in USAID activities across Southern Africa. The platform will provide technical support as follows:
- Monitoring Services
- Evaluation and Assessment Services
- Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Services
- Knowledge Management Services
Position Description:
Social Impact is seeking a full-time Lead Monitoring Expert to propose on our team and provide technical support to the eventual Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Knowledge Management Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract. This position will be based in South Africa on a full-time basis throughout the five-year duration of the contract. The anticipated start date is September 30, 2017.
Responsibilities:
The Lead Monitoring Expert will be responsible for providing leadership to the following expected services:
- Data quality analysis, including undertaking data quality analysis and providing technical assistance on data quality.
- Performance monitoring plan development support, including developing, reviewing and/or revising performance monitoring plans, as well as designing, planning, collecting, verifying, assessing and/or reviewing performance indicator data or indicators.
- Performance management tasks.
- Macro and portfolio level monitoring at the intermediate result level, including designing, planning, collecting, verifying, assessing and/or reviewing performance indicator data or indicators relevant to multiple projects and/or activities.
- Theory of change technical assistance, including assisting in developing evidence-based theories of change with aligned results frameworks and indicators, workshop theories of change with relevant stakeholders, evidence based theories of change, and scopes of work for evaluations, with particular attention to conflict of interest issues.
- Ensure that short- and long-term monitoring team members recruited under this contract are of a high caliber and possess the required technical expertise.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree or higher in the field of international relations, economics, political science, public policy, statistics, and/or other relevant field.
- Academic or professional training in performance monitoring design and implementation, including data collection and analysis.
- Minimum eight years of progressively more responsible experience in the design and management of indicators, monitoring and evaluation plans, performance targets, data quality assessments, data collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Previous experience providing guidance in the development and updating of performance management plans.
- Experience with creating and managing performance indicator tracking systems/databases.
- Experience using performance monitoring data for the improvement of ongoing project/activity management.
- Experience in the gender dimensions of monitoring.
- Extensive experience in drafting indicators.
- Experience providing group of various sizes and one-on-one training and mentoring on monitoring- related subjects i.e., results-based management.
- Familiarity with USG policies, related to performance monitoring.
- Familiarity with a diverse set of programming, i.e. health, agriculture, education, governance, one of which must be health or agriculture.
- Previous work experience in Southern Africa region.
- Fluency in written and oral English required.
Come join our energetic and innovative team! We offer you the opportunity to play a leading role in the growth of our company, work as part of a creative and committed team, and make a difference in the well-being of our world.
To learn more about Social Impact, please visit our website: http://www.socialimpact.com
SI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Only selected candidates will be contacted for an interview. Please, no phone calls.
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