Senior CLA Specialist, USAID South Sudan MEL , South Sudan, Social Impact 177 views0 applications

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 and education, the environment, and economic growth. SI’s clients include US government agencies such as USAID, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the US Department of State, bilateral donors, multilateral development banks, foundations, and non-profits.

Proposal Objective:

Social Impact is preparing a proposal for an upcoming five-year USAID South Sudan Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Project. The MEL Project will support USAID/South Sudan to effectively monitor, evaluate, learn from, and improve USAID-funded interventions. The MEL Project will provide USAID/South Sudan with flexible, demand-driven technical, analytic, advisory, training, monitoring, evaluation, and related support services for performance measurement, planning, monitoring, evaluation, reporting, activity mapping, and performance information management and dissemination activities.

Position Description:

SI is seeking a Senior CLA Specialist to lead the collaboration, learning and adapting component of the project. This will be a full-time position based in Juba, for the duration of the contract.

**Please note: Candidates with South Sudanese citizenship are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities:

· Provide oversight of CLA activities, such as learning agendas, knowledge management development, design and implementation of learning approaches (pause and reflect, etc.), organizing and leading community of practices, etc.

· Build capacity for adapting to new learning and changes in context through effective approaches.

· Coordinate knowledge capturing, sharing and strategic learning to speed innovation and bring new innovations to the program.

· Expanding the network of professionals and institutions that collaborate on performance management and evaluation tasks for the contract.

· Lead training tasks, and efforts to ensure evaluation findings and recommendations are transparent and distributed to relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications:

· Advanced degree in organizational learning, development assistance or related field.

· Minimum of eight years of progressively responsible experience in strategic planning, project design, institutional learning and/or knowledge management.

· Demonstrated experience planning and implementing training courses for adult professionals on topics related to international development assistance; preferably on performance management topics.

· Experience building organizational capacity in monitoring, evaluation, and strategic learning preferred.

· Previous experience working in South Sudan and/or region preferred.

· Exceptional proficiency in written and spoken English.