EDC’s International
Development Division (IDD) focuses on three major areas: literacy and basic
education, youth livelihoods and workforce development, and health. Another key
strand of EDC’s international work focuses on helping countries expand economic
opportunity and build civic society.
EDC works with
governments, agencies, and other partners in 35 countries to develop programs
that are respectful of cultural traditions and beliefs. The international
division comprises six regional c
enters coordinating EDC’s work in West and
Central Africa, East and Southern Africa, North Africa and the Middle East,
Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and South and
Southeast Asia.
EDC is preparing for
a program in Tanzania focused providing technical assistance and instructional
materials targeted at improving lifelong learning skills, defined as mastery of
early grade reading, writing, and arithmetic. Technical assistance will cover:
(1) improving quality of basic skills instruction at the early primary level;
(2) strengthening Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) skills
delivery systems; and (3) increasing community and parental engagement in early
primary education. These three components align with the Government of Tanzania
(GoT)’s ten-year Education Development Sector Plan (EDSP)(see Attachment 5,
item 22) and other reforms underway, such as Big Results Now (BRN),
Performance4Results (P4R), and Global Partnership for Education Literacy and
Numeracy Support (GPE LANES) program on 3R’s (reading, writing, and arithmetic)
reform.
Job Description
Senior Monitoring
and Evaluation Specialist:
The Monitoring and
Evaluation Specialist establishes and manages the overall activity system to
track progress towards meeting program/contract results, indicators and
targets. The individual will ensure that performance monitoring, action
research, and evaluations are consistent with program results and track
activity progress towards achieving targets and results. He/she will manage and
coordinate field-based monitoring and evaluation specialists, and any other
staff responsible to performance monitoring, oversight, and data collection and
reporting. The individual must ensure that the methodologies proposed by the
Contractor to measure the programs impact on access, retention, reading and
learning outcomes, school safety, community engagement, gender,
disability-inclusive, and conflict sensitive measures, are being consistently
and systematically tracked and reported.
Education:
Requires a Master’s
Degree in international development, economics, statistics, research methods,
political science, public policy, social science, or a related field.
Skills and
Experience:
At least eight years
designing, monitoring, and evaluating programs (in the education sector
preferred). This individual must have demonstrated success and experience in
monitoring results and indicators of education quality, learning outcomes,
access, retention, and community engagement.
Language: The
candidate must be professionally proficient and fluent (IELTS level 7 or above;
or TOEFL 94 or above) in written and spoken English. It is preferred, but not
required, that the candidate be conversant and fluent in written and spoken
Kiswahili (FS 2+).
Interested applicants
may send resumes to IDDJobs@edc.org. Please list the position and region to
which you are applying in the subject line of the email
