Monitoring & Evaluation Director, Performance Management Platform (PMP) Project, Mali

Monitoring & Evaluation Director, Performance Management Platform (PMP) Project, Mali

Background:

Social Impact (SI) is a Washington, DC-area international development management consulting firm. We provide a full range of innovative program evaluation, management consulting, technical assistance, and training services to strengthen international development programs, organizations and policies. Our global services are in the areas of democracy and governance, health and education, agriculture, the environment, and economic growth.

Objective:

Social Impact is pursuing an anticipated multi-year project funded by USAID/Mali to provide technical assistance in monitoring and evaluation for the USAID/Mali portfolio of projects, covering the following technical areas:

Natural resources and environment
Economic development
Health
Education
Governance and rule of law

The activities are anticipated to include:

Evaluation Assistance: Design, Methodologies, Tools and Implementation for both Performance and Impact Evaluations
Performance Monitoring Assistance: Mission Performance Management Plan (PMP) & Development Objectives, Results Frameworks, Project Monitoring Plans (PMPs), Implementing Partner (IP) Activity-level PMPs
Assessments and Special Studies
Data Collection, Analysis and Reporting of PMP data
Data Quality Assessment (DQA)
M&E Mission and IP Training and Technical Assistance (TA): Strategic Planning, Project Design
Review/Establish Baselines and Targets for 8 projects
Strategic Communication and Strengthened Collaboration

Social Impact is seeking a full-time M&E Director to lead the M&E activities for this multi-year project, and serve as the point of contact for USAID/Mali.

Responsibilities:

Serve as technical expert on monitoring and evaluation activities;
Put in place an M&E system to track performance indicators for effective evaluations;
Train, as necessary, partner organizations on data collection methods, monitoring and selection of performance indicators;
Update data collection techniques and data analysis in coordination with other technical experts;
Assure that evaluation reports are correct and follow USAID and Malian government regulations, and;
Travel throughout Mali as needed to collect success stories and assure quality evaluation work.

Qualifications:

A Bachelor’s degree (advanced degree, Master’s or Ph.D. preferred) in social sciences, international development, economics or a relevant field;
Proven experience in evaluation design, methodologies and tool development;
Demonstrated experience managing monitoring and evaluation activities on international development projects, and provide technical expertise to these activities in one or more of the following sectors:
Natural resources and environment
Economic development
Health
Education
Governance and rule of law
Professional experience in design of performance indicators, Performance Management Plans (PMP), Project Monitoring Plans (PMPs), and M&E data quality and analysis;
Experience in developing quantitative and qualitative data collection instruments;
Experience working on international development projects is required; USAID-funded projects is strongly preferred;
Ability to travel throughout Mali, and work with a variety of government, partner, evaluation and NGO staff, and;
Fluency in spoken and written English and French is required.
To apply, kindly submit a CV and application to: https://socialimpact.devhire.devex.com/jobs/329920

To learn more about Social Impact, please visit our website: http://www.socialimpact.com

We will contact only eligible candidates to further discuss their availability. Please no phone calls. Social Impact is an equal opportunity employer.