Position Description
Position: Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning, anticipated USAID funded Bangladesh Youth Activity project
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Group:**Human Rights, Education, and Empowerment
Reports to:** Chief of Party
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT:
Effective with the release of this position announcement, Winrock is seeking Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning candidates for an anticipated youth development project in Bangladesh. The project aims to bolster youth’s income and resilience to violent extremism/and anti-democratic values, provide youth the skills and abilities to advocate for good governance, and improve Bangladesh’s self-reliance. The project objectives are to increase civic awareness and resilience to anti-democratic and violent extremism values; strengthen youth participation in community-improvements and decision-making processes; and improve the marketability and employability of youth to connect them to sustainable livelihoods and income generating opportunities. The position is contingent upon receipt of donor funding.
Qualified Bangladeshi nationals are strongly encouraged to apply, especially those residing in Bangladesh.
APPLICATIONS:
Applicants should submit a current resume and cover letter via this careers page by November 27, 2020.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) for an anticipated USAID-funded Bangladesh Youth Activity project will oversee the program’s monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities and data reporting requirements. S/he will serve as the liaison and point of contact with external evaluation contractors throughout the life of the project.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide technical leadership for MEL to the project team to ensure USAID MEL requirements are met on timely basis and guides data collection, management, analysis and visualization, and reporting progress towards indicator targets and results – based on both quantitative and qualitative inputs.
- Build capacity of MEL and technical staff, partners and key stakeholders in these areas, and ensure compliance;
- Design and develop the monitoring, evaluating, learning, and research plan for the project, including selecting and defining indicators, setting targets for all indicators, planning data collection methods, tools, and reporting formats; and lead MEL plan revisions as needed.
- Lead process of data verification and review of data source documentation;
- Develop and put in place efficient and accurate data collection and analysis system and procedures that include efficient processes for collecting and analyzing data and ensuring data quality; and conduct internal DQAs
- Submit data to donor reporting system (DIS) on timely basis, and coordinate with Home Office MEL staff to develop and implement a data management plan to submit selected project datasets to USAID’s Development Data Library (DDL)
- Lead Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) approaches throughout implementation;
- Co-facilitate quarterly Pause and Reflect sessions to capture learning, introduce improvements, and achieve meaningful results;
- Lead knowledge management and sharing activities within project, with USAID, other implementing partners, and with target countries’ governments;
- Oversee internal research and evaluation efforts of the project, from the design stage to sharing findings as well as preparing for external evaluations;
- Work with local partners to ensure application of high-quality MEL activities and data collection and provide ongoing supervision and technical assistance to partners, as needed;
- Participate in Winrock International’s Community of Practice;
- Work closely with the field team and project staff to ensure annual workplans are aligned with the MEL plan to meet annual and LOP targets;
- Collaborate with communications team to visualize and disseminate important findings.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Advanced degree in social sciences, such as statistics, public health, public policy, economics or a related field, and/or specialized training/certification in monitoring & evaluation;
Experience:
- Minimum 7 years of professional experience managing and implementing complex MEL systems for international development projects, preferably with USG funded projects;
- Experience managing large MEL databases and conducting timely data analysis and developing reports. SQL database experience preferred;
- Experience in both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis;
- Experience designing, testing and managing surveys required;
- Experience with capacity building in MEL required;
- Experience with mobile data collection strongly preferred;
- Proven record of designing and implementing data collection tools including surveys;
- Experience in similar position in focused on youth leadership and engagement, youth economic empowerment/workforce development, youth civic education, civil society strengthening, or fields related to results and objectives of the project required for the successful implementation of this project highly preferred;
Skills:
- Familiarity with USG donor MEL requirements;
- Knowledge of soft skills measurement
- Strong training design, training delivery, and facilitation skills;
- Strong research or survey design experience;
- Excellent written and oral communication skill in English;
- Familiarity using technology for data collection, management and analysis
- Proficiency in word processing, database management, statistical analysis, survey, and presentation software (Microsoft).
- Excellent organizational and team management skills