Overview
Background:
Creative Associates International is a dynamic, fast-growing global development firm that specializes in education, economic growth, governance and post-crisis stabilization. Based in Washington, D.C., Creative has a field presence in more than 25 countries with a strong client portfolio that includes the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department, among others. Since its founding in 1977, Creative has earned a solid reputation among its clients and is well-regarded by competitors and partners alike.
Position Summary:
Creative Associates seeks a Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager for an anticipated Task Order (TO) BRICC-EDU USAID Syria Education Project under the USAID's Building Resilient and Inclusive Communities in Conflict (BRICC) IDIQ contract. The TO aims to strengthen Syrian communities and foster stability by expanding access to education and vocational training and increase learning opportunities for out of school children and youth interested in returning to accredited or certified education opportunities that help them to transition to school or work.
The Senior Monitor, Evaluation, Learning (MEL) Manager is to be based in Amman, Jordan and will be responsible for establishing and management of all activities related to tracking the progress of the program results, indicators and targets. This position will ensure that performance monitoring, action research and evaluations meet all program requirements and will track progress of program activities. He/she is responsible for the overall design and implementation of a monitoring and evaluation systems capable of tracking the project's progress against identified targets and determining its outcomes. In this capacity, the Senior MEL Manager will design data collection procedures, tools, and process as well as oversee data collection efforts.
Reporting & Supervision:
The Senior MEL Manager will report directly to the COP and will supervise an MEL Officer.
Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities:
- Has overall responsibility for leading and managing all major MEL tasks related to the project. This includes strategizing and conceiving monitoring and evaluations, setting ongoing priorities; leading implementation, and reviewing technical progress of M&E component.
- Implements monitoring and evaluation process including data analysis and reporting.
- Ensures that the methodologies proposed to measure the programs impact on access, retention, reading and learning outcomes, school safety, community engagement, and conflict sensitive measures, are consistent and systematically tracked and reported.
- Creates and updates a comprehensive MEL plan to ensure all requisite data is collected in a timely manner in order to report progress toward performance indicators. This includes routine (monthly/quarterly) appraisal of performance against targets, challenges to achievement as well as reasons for success.
- Creates a comprehensive data collection plan, including generation of forms, collection procedures, collection schedule and rapid appraisal of data (timely data monitoring).
- Routinely analyzes implementation data and proposing performance targets to project leadership per USAID indicators to ensure progress is achieved.
- Ensures correct compilation of data and database management.
- Overall management and oversight of M&E agents. This includes conducting regular meetings with MEL Officer and Field Officers to improve MEL system and reinforcing capacities of M&E agents.
- Participates in data analysis for quarterly and annual reports and drafting data analysis sections. Prepares presentations of data for specific audiences as needed
- Conceives of, organizes and conducts research as needed on identified topics in support of program objectives.**Qualifications**
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- A Master's degree in education, research methods or other relevant social science from an accredited university is required;
- At least seven (7) years of work experience designing and implementing MEL activities in the field of education, youth, systems strengthening, and/or organizational change management is required;
- Proven success and experience in monitoring results and indicators of organizational change, particularly as related to MEL systems management, HR systems management, and financial systems management;
- Previous experience in USAID-funded programs, and a strong knowledge of USAID reporting requirements is an advantage;
- Training in qualitative and quantitative analysis;
- Excellent interpersonal skills and teamwork;
- Effective communication skills, able to make formal and informal presentations both orally and in writing and produce professional and analytical reports and program documents; and
- Fluency in English.
Desired Skills & Qualifications:
- Professional proficiency in Arabic is preferred.
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