United States of America: Title Results and Measurement Advisor
Country: United States of America
Closing date: 21 Sep 2013
Position Title Results and Measurement Advisor Requisition Number 13-0153 Post Date 8/21/2013 City Washington, DC
Description Position Summary: The Results and Measurement Advisor provides monitoring, evaluation, results, and learning support to Pact programs in countries worldwide. The position provides direct support to countries for new business development, start-up, quality of on-going monitoring, and all evaluations. The Advisor will coordinate closely with the technical Directors for Health, Governance and Livelihoods/Food Security, Natural Resource Management and will support improved quality for all Pact programs.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
• Provide technical support to the opportunity development team in the design of programs including drafting Performance Monitoring Plans (PMPs), logical frameworks, articulating theories of change and representing how the program will attain and measure its achievements.
• Provide start-up support to new projects, specifically to support the development of a PMP within the first 60 days of a program, to design and implement baseline assessments and ensure a foundation for later outcome measurement.
• Provide in-country training and mentoring support to offices to review their overall M&E plans, their outcome measures, their data management strategy, data quality audits and how they are using their data for decision making.
• Provide technical assistance to country offices in the design of evaluations including developing terms of reference, designing tools, providing sampling guidance, data analysis guidance, assistance on how to manage and prepare for evaluations.
• Problem solve with country offices how to overcome measurement and reporting challenges to ensure quality outputs.
• Manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously and foresee problems and complications and take action to resolve and mitigate them before they occur.
• Write complex documents such as M&E frameworks, literature reviews and evaluations in a timely manner with a high degree of quality.
• Assist Pact to roll out the use of innovative technologies such as GIS, mobile technology for data collection and techniques for visualizing data to improve monitoring and evaluation practice throughout the organization.
• Support the technical teams to develop data/evidence packages for specific programs, countries, regions, and/or technical area for use in communication materials
• Support technical teams to conduct costing analyses of health programs, specific interventions, costs per beneficiary, etc.
• Advise on the development of centralized databases to warehouse key data for donors and for the organization to measure its overall effectiveness.
• Form strategic relationships with individuals and agencies within the field of strategic information and understand the current trends in the field.
• Travel 25% or more to support country programs and overall measurement tasks directly.
Qualifications:
• Minimum of a Master’s Degree in a related field
• 4+ years of professional experience, with specific experience managing data intensive programs and designing M&E systems
• Experience with measurement in one or more of the following areas: governance and democracy, health, livelihoods, natural resource management and/or capacity development (governance measurement preferred)
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative M&E data collection and analysis methods, including tracking outcome indicators
• Experience in designing and conducting program evaluations utilizing mixed methods.
• Highly proficient in SPSS
• Demonstrated and proven mentoring skills and an ability to work independently
Preferred:
• Experience with quasi experimental or other rigorous evaluation designs.
• Experience piloting and implementing mobile technology for crowd sourcing, data collection, and/or monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience using ArcGIS, QGIS or similar software and producing maps
• Experience in an overseas setting, preferably sub-Saharan Africa/Asia
• Team player with a positive, sharing and open attitude
Pact is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factors.
Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
How to apply:
To apply for this position, please visit our website at www.pactworld.org
