Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director

Job Description

Title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director

Company Name: Abt Associates, Inc.

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's degree in statistics, social science, development economics or a related field.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 10 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Opportunity:
∎ The goal of the USAID-funded Feed the Future Bangladesh Nutrition Activity (BNA) is to contribute to improvements in nutrition outcomes for children under five, pregnant and lactating women, and adolescent girls in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence (ZOI) and Zone of Resilience (ZOR) by (1) increasing consumption of nutritious, diverse, and safe diets by rural households; (2) increasing social and economic empowerment of girls and women; and (3) improving adoption of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) practices. BNA will implement nutrition-sensitive interventions that complement and reinforce ongoing nutrition-specific activities.
∎ Abt Associates seeks a qualified Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director for BNA. The MEL Director is the primary point of contact for BNA team members and for USAID regarding MEL needs, activities, and outputs. They will report to the Chief of Party and supervise two Dhaka-based and four field-based MEL team members.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Oversee development/adaptation and implementation of the Activity's MEL strategy, plan, and systems. Ensure that the Activity's monitoring; and collaboration, learning, and adapting (CLA) plans meet the needs and requirements of the Activity's technical team and comply with USAID requirements.
∎ Manage a rigorous approach to M&E to measure performance toward specific goals and objectives, including quantitative, qualitative, and participatory methodologies.
∎ Supervise the Research and Learning Specialist (RLS). Provide technical guidance and quality assurance to the RLS in planning, implementation, and utilization of a primary research such that these lead to program improvement, adaptation, and learning.
∎ Supervise the Data Quality Management Specialist (DQMS). Provide technical guidance and quality assurance to the DQMS in collecting routine monitoring data, validating data collected, data cleaning, data entry, analysis, and reporting.
∎ Identify capacity building needs of the MEL team and coordinate with Abt Home Office to ensure that these needs can be met.
∎ Lead development of indicators relevant to the Activity and consistent with Feed the Future requirements; contribute to the development of project performance monitoring databases.
∎ Support Abt Head Office Team to oversee implementation of annual surveys, mid-term reviews, and/or final evaluations; support Abt Head Office Team to review baseline analysis and provide feedback, as requested, on a timely basis.
∎ Contribute to quarterly strategy reviews as well as drafting core components of program progress reports to the donor.
∎ Drive the project's overall learning agenda to derive lessons learned and best practices from project activities and contribute to quarterly program evaluations.
∎ Design and maintain integrity of project's MEL database by ensuring all staff have passwords relevant to their job responsibility to ensure security of the database, in coordination with Abt Home Office.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree + Fifteen years of relevant experience, or Master's Degree + Twelve years of relevant experience, or PhD + Ten years of relevant experience
∎ At least 6 years' experience in leading MEL teams; and at least 12 years of total experience in M&E, learning, and adaptive management.
∎ Deep knowledge of and experience in managing project monitoring systems, managing complex databases, integrating GIS modules into databases.
∎ Knowledge of and experience with USAID M&E frameworks and reporting systems.
∎ Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to work collaboratively and independently.
∎ Demonstrated team leader and player with effective cross-cultural interpersonal skills; able to develop and communicate a common vision among diverse partners and lead multidisciplinary teams.
∎ Ability to resolve sensitive and complicated work issues with senior high-level country counterparts, donor representatives, and senior-level staff.
∎ Verbal and written fluency in both English and Bangla along with strong communications, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
∎ Experience in Bangladesh performing similar tasks.
∎ Skills in qualitative and quantitative survey research quantitative analytical methods preferred
∎ Experience with Feed the Future monitoring systems preferred.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 9 Dec 2022

Company Information:
∎ 24 Nov 2022
∎ Abt Associates, Inc.

Category: NGO/Development

Source: bdjobs.com

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