Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 08 Jul 2016
Technical Expert - VISTAS,MESP USAID/South Sudan,Juba, South Sudan
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Project Summary: **
The Monitoring and Evaluation Support Project (MESP) in Juba supports the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in South Sudan to effectively monitor, evaluate, learn from-, and improve USAID-funded interventions. MESP provides 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. These services assist the Mission in complying with new evaluation, monitoring, and project design requirements under USAID Forward. They also include monitoring and evaluation technical support to the Mission for performance management at all levels.
Position Summary:
The Technical Expert will participate in document review, development of methodology and data collection tools, Team Planning Meetings and other preparation meetings as well as in data collection, data analysis and report writing, and debriefing USAID team and the wider audience that include, implementing partner (s), government invitees, and any other interested stakeholder on the evaluation findings, conclusions and recommendation.
Responsibilities:
- Pre-Field Work Briefing
- Participate in the Team Planning Meeting and other preparation meetings as well as in selection of appropriate data collection methodologies and creation of corresponding interview instruments
- Review of documents assigned by the Team Leader and/or MESP as part of literature review and prepare a summary report of the literature review;
- Support the Team Leader in preparation and presentation of the inception report and approaches detailing the evaluation design to USAID in an oral presentation and review meeting in which USAID may raise questions and issues and request adjustments, if necessary, to that plan prior to the start of field work. This meeting will be held within one (1) work day after the submission of the team's inception report which USAID will approve, request adjustments or reject the team's inception report and evaluation design within one (1) work day after this meeting is held.
- Field Work
- Support the team leader in managing the data collection process including allocation of tasks to team members and ensuring the quality of the data being collected;
- Conduct interviews with identified respondents including governments, IPS, local CBOs, USAID or others as identified;
- Draft sections of evaluation report or presentations according to speciality and as assigned by the Team Leader
- Post-Field Work Review
- Work with the team leader in preparing and managing briefings/oral presentations and reviews which serve as a checkpoint on the completeness of the evaluation team's data and analysis on each of the evaluation questions and on the clarity of the flow of the team's presentation of its findings, conclusions and recommendations.
- Draft Report
- Draft sections of the evaluation report, preparing in accordance with USAID's “How to Prepare and Evaluation Report” guidance.
- Work with the team leader in debriefing the wider audience that include, USAID team, implementing partner (s), government invitees, and any other interested stakeholder.
- Final Report
- Contribute to the finalization of the report by incorporating USAID and stakeholder comments, and submit the report to MSI electronically.
- Submit all the quantitative and qualitative data sets obtained as a result of the evaluation to MSI including all documents, slides, etc
Qualifications:
- A Master's degree in peace-building, conflict management and resolution, political science, community development or a related social science.
- 8+ years of extensive experience in one or more of the following technical areas: community-based conflict mitigation and reconciliation programming, building capacity of civilian state authorities and/or civil society to prevent, respond to and mitigate conflict; promoting increased access to information and engagement of citizens in support of political and peace processes at the local level; and/or engaging at-risk youth and other vulnerable groups in productive social and economic activities.
- Experience in research and demonstrated knowledge regarding the conduct of qualitative studies
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
- South Sudan experience and experience elsewhere in Africa or similar settings are also preferred.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
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