Summary: Sr. Officer, Monitoring & Evaluation coordinates activities for a Feed the Future agricultural development project. The Officer leads, manages and supervises the M&E team and provides technical and management leadership to M&E planning and implementation for a USAID Feed the Future project.
Essential Job Functions:
- Provides technical expertise and leadership to promote quality M&E planning and implementation based on Feed the Future requirements;
- Leads the effort in building on and developing more systematic monitoring and evaluation practices to ensure quality of management and operation of IRD programs;
- Designs M&E trainings for field staff in areas such as logic models, baseline surveys, monitoring and evaluation plans, and other areas;
- Monitors technical trends and issues and recommends project responses as needed;
- Supervises M&E planning, evaluation and operations research, assessments and evaluations, and data analysis;
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Social Science or its equivalent;
- 10+ years' experience in Monitoring and Evaluation with USAID or other USG international development programs;
- Experience in Southern Africa, international development programs;
- Training in Feed the Future M&E requirements and experience in Feed the Future projects;
- Demonstrated working knowledge of design performance monitoring plans, performance indicators, causal linkages, target settings, etc;
- Excellent qualitative and quantitative analysis skills.
- Fluency in English and Portuguese.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Master's degree in Social Sciences or its equivalent;
- Knowledge of Feed the Future M&E requirements and rules and regulations, and experience working with USAID or other USG rules and regulations;
- Capacity building and/or experience conducting M&E trainings;
- Technical agricultural experience preferred;
- Extensive (5 + years) experience in Southern Africa, in international development programs;
- Extensive (5 + years) experience in programs that promote nutrition in Mozambique .
Success Factors:
- Excellent writing skills;
- Ability to work well under pressure and successfully handle multiple tasks at once;
- Ability to solve complex technical, managerial or operational problems and evaluate options based on relevant information, resources, well-rounded experience, and knowledge;
- Ability to operate at advanced levels of authority and control significant activities, budgets and resources to produce and take responsibility for results;
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills;
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Travel Requirements:
Physical Requirements:
- Normal Office Conditions.
