The Dexis Consulting Group is recruiting for a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor that will be embedded within USAID’s Office of Education and support specifically the Evidence Team.
The USAID Office of Education focuses on implementing the USAID Education Strategy, which has three major goals:
- Goal One: Improved reading skills for 100 million children in primary grades;
- Goal Two: Improved ability of tertiary and workforce development programs to generate workforce skills relevant to a country’s development goals; and
- Goal Three: Increased equitable access to education in crisis and conflict environments for 15 million learners.
The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor is a member of the Evidence team within USAID/E3/ED and will report to the Evidence Team Lead.
The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor will sit on the Evidence Team within the Education Policy and Planning Division, Office of Education, Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment (EGEE/ED/EPP). As a Bureau technical expert, the incumbent will substantially contribute to improving USAID’s M&E practice in the education sector, increasing the M&E capacity and efficiency of USAID education staff and strengthening the evidence base in the USAID education sector. The incumbent will provide strategic leadership, technical guidance for E3/ED evaluation and knowledge activities, support USAID Missions with technical assistance for monitoring and evaluation activities, and engage with USAID partners, including implementing and donor partners, to advance the quality of evidence building in the international education sector at large.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Technical Assistance
- Provide expert technical assistance to USAID Missions worldwide to develop evaluation (impact and performance) strategies, frameworks, designs, and operational plans and solicitations
- Provide expert technical assistance to USAID Missions worldwide in the development of performance monitoring strategies, frameworks and operational plans
- Contribute to Office of Education evaluation awards/contracts, with an emphasis on technical input for impact evaluations to include those focused on early-grade reading, access to education in conflict and crisis-affected settings, and youth workforce development activities
Professional Engagement and Deliverables
- In collaboration with Evidence Team colleagues, engage with global partners in the education sector to enhance USAID’s investments in evaluation and research
- Provide M&E technical reviews of deliverables throughout the USAID Program Cycle (e.g., Concept Paper, Project Approval Document, Request For Assistance/Request For Proposal)
- Provide quality assurance services to USAID Washington/Mission education offices for M&E-related deliverables (e.g., evaluation designs, performance monitoring plans, data collection plans and instruments)
- In collaboration with Evidence Team colleagues, develop education-specific M&E tools (e.g., sample scopes work, design guidelines, indicator banks) to improve the quality of USAID’s M&E practice and increase efficiencies for USAID Mission staff
- Travel internationally as needed to engage USAID Mission personnel
Qualifications
- Minimum of 7 years of professional experience required
- Minimum of 5 years of experience designing and conducting evaluations in the international education sector required, with a strong preference for experience with impact evaluations and applied research
- Extensive knowledge of measurement and evaluation issues associated with early grade reading, youth workforce development and education in conflict and crisis strongly preferred
- Knowledge of statistics (with an emphasis on sample design, power calculations and data analysis), statistical software packages and experience with systematic review methodologies highly preferred
- Field experience conducting evaluation activities (e.g., planning, joint design with stakeholders, data collection, enumerator training) in developing countries required
- Consulting (internal or client-based) experience strongly preferred
- A minimum of 3 years of program management experience strongly preferred
- Master’s Degree in relevant field required, Ph.D. preferred
Winner of the 2014 Small Business of the Year at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and working in nearly 90 countries in FY 2015 for USAID and the Department of State, Dexis supports US federal agencies in the areas of program monitoring and evaluation, program learning, and program support. We are not only one of the fastest growing firms in international development, we are rated among the highest among our peers on employee-reviewed sites.
Dexis is an equal opportunity employer offering employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship, physical or mental handicap, or status as a disabled or Vietnam Era veteran of the US Armed Forces.
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