MSI Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation Support Project Job Vacancy in Rwanda

Senior
Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation Support Project,
Rwanda

Proposal
Summary:

The
anticipated USAID-funded Monitoring and Evaluation Support Project will provide
support on performance monitoring, data verification, and program evaluations
for USAID/Rwanda’s entire program portfolio. Support provided under the five
year contract is likely to include assistance in designing and executing

performance and impact evaluations, various sector and portfolio assessments,
and training for USAID/Rwanda, stakeholder staff and the USAID/Rwanda program
portfolio, covering the following technical areas: Health Education Economic
Growth Trade Agriculture Food Security Water/Sanitation Conflict Mitigation

Position
Summary:

MSI
is recruiting for a Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist to oversee
monitoring and evaluation, analyses and assessments throughout the life of the
project, including the data collection, design of the evaluation methodology
and participatory data collection methods and protocols, and data quality
verification techniques. **Please note: This is a local position. Only
candidates with Rwandan citizenship will be considered.

Responsibilities:

Responsible
the design, quality development and production of all necessary
evaluations reports.
Conduct
assessments, population based surveys and studies including the testing of
the development hypotheses.
Design
of the evaluation methodology, participatory data collection methods and
protocols for both performance and impact evaluations.
Coordinate
and be responsible for all data collection, monitoring, report generation,
evaluation and related tasks.
Oversee,
recruit for and ensure short-term technical experts and evaluation team
members are of a high caliber and possess the required technical
expertise.
Oversee
the maintenance of Mission and IPs PMPs.Serve as the evaluation team
leader of select evaluations conducted under this contract as needed.
Contribute
substantively to the design and field testing of the evaluation
methodology, participatory data collection methods and protocols, data
verification techniques, and other technical evaluation and analytical
tasks.

Qualifications:

A
Bachelor’s degree in International Development, Statistics or Economics;
or a Master’s degree with minimum of five years demonstrated experience in
the requested field
At
least ten years of demonstrated experience in the design and management of
evaluations (impact and performance), analyses and assessments, including
the dosing of the evaluation methodology, population based surveys,
developing performance management plans, participatory data collection
methods and protocols, and data quality verification techniques from large
development projects. Ability to provide expert guidance to technical
teams in developing and updating performance monitoring plans.
Demonstrated
M&E experience on USAID-funded projects in East and Southern Africa.
Experience
leading an evaluation team.
Familiarity
with current USAID policies related to evaluation and performance
management.
Fluency
in French and English is strongly preferred.