Mozambique: Senior Evaluation Officer USAID/Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism and Services (MMEMS)

Senior Evaluation Officer, USAID/Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism and Services (MMEMS), Mozambique

Company Profile:

MSI, a Tetra Tech Company, is a Washington, DC metro area international development firm with a 35-year history of delivering development results across the world. Our core expertise is in the fields of monitoring and evaluation (M&E), institutional development, public sector management, governance and anti-corruption. MSI has implemented projects in 90 countries around the world such as Jordan, Kenya, Indonesia, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Colombia, and Mexico. As one of the leading companies in our field, MSI has partnered with organizations across all sectors of international development to support clients ranging from large bilateral and multilateral donors such as USAID, the World Bank and the UNDP to national and local governments, NGOs, think tanks, foundations and universities. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.

Project Summary:

The Mozambique Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism and Services (MMEMS) team provides on-the-ground support on performance monitoring, data verification, gender, impact evaluation, output, and environmental compliance, and collaboration, learning and adapting (CLA) assistance to USAID/Mozambique. The MMEMS main office is in Maputo, with field offices in Quelimane and Nampula.

Position Summary:

Oversee evaluations, analyses and assessments throughout the life of the activity, including data collection, design of evaluation methodologies and participatory data collection methods and protocols, as well as data quality verification techniques. She/he will also be responsible for the design, quality development and production of all evaluations reports and any assessments, population-based surveys and studies including the testing of the development hypotheses, where feasible. This will include the design of the evaluation methodology and participatory data collection methods and protocols for both performance and IEs.

Working with the Chief of Party (COP), the Senior Evaluation Officer will ensure that short- and long-term evaluation team members recruited under this contract are of a high caliber and possess the required technical expertise.

*This position is reserved for citizens of Mozambique**

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership for – and ensure quality of – the design, management, and implementation of performance and impact evaluations, analyses, population based surveys and assessments.
• Support the design of performance and impact evaluation methodologies, development of participatory data collection methods and protocols, quantitative and qualitative analyses, and utilization of data quality verification techniques.
• Ensure the inclusion of gender dimensions in evaluations.
• She/he will ensure adequate oversight of evaluation-related task orders under MMEMS.
• Lead/oversee the drafting and finalizing of evaluation reports.
• Ensure evaluations are conducted consistent with USAID evaluation policies.
• Support the use of technological innovations when conducting evaluations, such as tablets, smartphones, evaluation-related software applications, etc.
• Incorporate the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in evaluations when feasible and appropriate.
• Ensure that evaluation teams follow MSI's approach to quality management of evaluations.
• Provide group (of various sizes), one-on-one, and remote training and mentoring on evaluation- related subjects.
• Work with the Mozambican evaluation community, as appropriate, to carry out evaluations.
• Together with the Senior Evaluation Officer ensures MMEMS efforts on Collaboration, Learning and Adapting (CLA) are of consistently high quality.
• Liaise with GOM, as useful, to advance the purposes of the project.
• In the spirit of team collaboration, assist, as possible in keeping with completing other tasks, in other areas to balance workloads, such as assisting with editing Portuguese documents, compiling reporting documents, etc., when needed.
• Ensure all work is performed professionally and ethically while promoting a cohesive, positive working environment.

Qualifications:

• A Masters (or higher) degree in the field of international development or international relations, economics, political science, public policy, statistics, and/or other relevant field.
• Documented academic or professional training in evaluation design and methods.
• At least 8 years of progressively more responsible experience in the design, management, and implementation of evaluations (impact and performance), analyses and assessments, including the designing of the evaluation methodology, designing and implementing quantitative and qualitative methodologies, conducting population based surveys, developing participatory data collection methods and protocols, conducting data analysis, and utilizing data quality verification techniques for large development projects.
• Excellent data analysis skills including good command of statistics, sampling methodologies, and statistical analysis software such as SPSS, STATA, Epi Info, etc.
• Experience in the gender dimensions of evaluations.
• Extensive experience drafting and finalizing evaluation reports.
• Experience providing group (of various sizes) and one-on-one training and mentoring on evaluation- related subjects.
• Familiarity with USG policies, preferably USAID policies, related to evaluation management.
• Familiarity with a diverse set of USAID programing (i.e., health, agriculture, education, governance).
• Professional working knowledge of English; fluency in Portuguese.
• Recent experience using technological innovations when conducting evaluations, such as tablets, smartphones, evaluation-related software applications, etc.
• Experience using GIS as an evaluation component.
• Familiarity with Mozambican evaluation community.

Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer.

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