Apply📍 Latin America, Africa, South Asia
🧭 Full-Time
🔍 International Development
- A Master’s degree in international development, social sciences, or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years of demonstrated experience managing USAID-funded MEL activities in low to middle-income countries.
- Prior experience designing, managing, and implementing USAID MEL platform activities is strongly preferred.
- Excellent client and stakeholder relations, team leadership, and strategic management skills.
- Strong technical expertise in traditional and innovative MEL/CLA approaches, research design, and adaptive management.
- Experience with managing assessments employing mixed methods.
- Exceptional English written and oral communication skills; proficiency in Spanish, French, and/or Arabic is a plus.
- Understanding of USAID Program Cycle, the Automated Directives System, and key policies including the Evaluation Policy.
- Provide overall vision, leadership, day to day management, and technical direction of the awarded activities.
- Serve as chief liaison with and represent the activity to USAID Mission staff, implementing partners, and local stakeholders.
- Ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of high quality, demand-driven MEL technical assistance.
- Lead the delivery of adaptive management and CLA services for clients and stakeholders.
- Oversee the development of program strategies, workplans, MEL plans, and reports.
- Manage, train, and mentor project staff for seamless coordination.
- Ensure quality control of deliverables produced by subcontractors.
- Oversee design, development, and implementation of MEL and CLA activities.
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Posted 2024-10-18
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