The purpose of the AgCompete project is to strengthen agriculture productivity and profitability of smallholder farmers in Nigeria. The project will be composed of three main components: design of the Agriculture Competitiveness Fund for private sector partnerships and funding to catalyze technological innovations; administration of the Agriculture Competitiveness Fund to develop private sector partnerships and provide grants; and technical assistance that directly supports, coordinates, and organizes qualifying recipients to achieve the Missions food security objectives. The project will contribute to the Mission’s overall Feed the Future strategy, which looks to improve agriculture competitiveness of smallholder farmers in Nigeria.

Reporting & Supervision:

Reporting to the COP, the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director is responsible for all monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities. The Director must ensure that all activities are in line with the USAID Feed the Future evaluation policy, as well as the ADS and monitoring and learning best practices.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provides broad support on MEL design and implementation, monitoring strategies, partner organizations, and organizational capacity assessments;
• Manages the projects’ web-based M&E database;
• Guides learning agenda;
• Reviews and updates performance monitoring plans.

Expected Outcomes:

• Delivers MEL plan meeting all requirements by USAID;
• Maintains learning agenda for the project;
• Achieves M&E deliverables.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• At least a Masters’ degree in business, economics, statistics, international development, or a related field (or, alternately, a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and 5 additional years of relevant experience);
• At least 5 years’ technical experience in developing and implementing monitoring and evaluation plans and results-based management;
• Demonstrated understanding of cost-benefit analysis;
• Experience in Nigeria is required.