Zambia: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Democratic Strengthening in Zambia
Country: Zambia
Closing date: 11 Nov 2013
DAI works at the cutting edge of international development, combining technical excellence, professional project management, and exceptional customer service to solve our clients’ most complex problems. Since 1970, DAI has worked in 150 developing and transition countries, providing comprehensive development solutions in areas including crisis mitigation and stability operations, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS, avian influenza control, water and natural resources management, and energy and climate change. Clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and host-country governments.
DAI is seeking experienced and dynamic candidates for an upcoming democratic strengthening programme in Zambia. The programme will look at strengthening the capacity of institutions responsible for delivering public services to Zambian citizens; and increasing democratic transparency and accountability.
Duties and Responsibilities:• Contribute to development of common results-based monitoring and evaluation framework based on the programme logical framework• Support M&E needs assessments for selected grantees, and development of related capacity building plans• Monitor programme and grantee performance and results• Monitor and capture lessons learned to inform programme development• Support and mentor grantees to ensure that results-based monitoring, evaluation and reporting is integrated in their projects/programmes• Analysis of results from citizen monitoring tools• Capture and present findings to project team, service providers, community stakeholders and media, as and where necessary• Support aggregation of results at outcome and impact level• Support start-, mid-, and end-line surveys as required• Support capacity building of grantees in monitoring and articulation of resultsRequirements: • 4 or more years of experience working in monitoring and evaluation in Zambia• Experience working with participatory governance programmes preferred• An advanced degree or a Masters in the relevant field of governance, monitoring and evaluation or a related field would be highly desirable• Experience developing and managing systems for project monitoring and evaluation• Understanding of the use of different citizen monitoring tools like community, citizen and parliamentary score cards• Experience in conducting monitoring and evaluation on governance projects• Experience in knowledge management and evidence based dissemination• Experience delivering strategic communications and M&E interventions on governance projects• Experience in working on donor funded projects• Experience gained working with organisations in political transparency and democracy is highly desirable• Candidates must be fluent spoken and written English
Project Location:
Lusaka based with occasional travel within Zambia
How to apply:
http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH13/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=DAINC&cws=1...
