Senior Performance Monitoring and Learning Specialist Tender, USA - 32419764

Procurement Summary

Country : USA

Summary : Senior Performance Monitoring and Learning Specialist

Deadline : 16 May 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 32419764

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : CAMRIS INTERNATIONAL
3 Bethesda Metro Center 16th Floor Bethesda, MD 20814 Tel: 301.770.6000 Fax: 301.770.6030
USA
Email :info@camris.com
URL :www.camris.com

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Ukraine: Senior Performance Monitoring and Learning Specialist.

CAMRIS is an international development and research firm that realizes innovative solutions to development challenges through high-quality, cost-effective program and research management services. With experience working in more than 80 countries, we combine our proven systems with today-s most effective, evidence-based best practices to improve development outcomes. We apply a customized, customer-centric business approach to offer greater value to our clients.

CAMRIS seeks a Senior Performance Monitoring and Learning Specialist for the upcoming USAID/Ukraine-s Monitoring and Learning Support (MEL) Activity. This will be a five-year activity to holistically assist USAID Ukraine and Belarus in its overall monitoring, and its collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) needs over the implementation of its five-year 2018-2023 Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) with an expected start date in 2019.

The USAID MEL mechanism has two key performance objectives:
* Support implementation of the Mission-wide Performance Management Plan (PMP) which includes monitoring strategic progress, project performance, programmatic assumptions, and operational context; evaluating performance and impact; and learning and adapting from evidence; and
* Support ongoing Mission monitoring and learning needs, particularly key processes and systems that may be updated, improved, consolidated; and build Mission capacity to improve data collection, processes, sharing, and sustain best practices. Assistance may also include facilitating workshops, conferences, and meetings, providing mapping services and supporting the Belarus Country Office.
* Oversee all aspects of third-party monitoring activities, such as planning, budgeting, recruitment of consultants, designing and implementing each assigned activity
* Incorporate MEL considerations into USAID/Ukraine strategy as it is developed and finalized and into USAID/Ukraine program and activity design
* Lead/oversee the review of PMP data, including baseline data collection, analysis of performance indicator data, assess/refine project-level MEL plans, and work to ensure the quality and utility of performance monitoring data
* Support ongoing updates to the PMP and generate reports and presentations
* Assist implementing partners to develop effective indicators
* Conduct data quality assessments (DQAs) in accordance with ADS 201
* Design and conduct training in MEL topics for USAID staff
* Identify and secure appropriate short-term technical assistance
* Ensure gender, disability-inclusive, and conflict sensitive factors are consistently and systematically tracked and reported in accordance with USAID data reporting requirements.
* Ensure all Performance Indicator Reference Sheets (PIRS) for all indicators are complete and robust.
* Manage an internal local team of monitoring specialists, and external short-term consultants.
* Provide relevant technical guidance.
* Track, analyze and summarize mission performance monitoring data using graphs, maps, and charts to facilitate mission decision-making.
* At least seven years of professional experience managing a team conducting data collection, analysis, performance monitoring, or research.
* A minimum of a master-s degree in development studies, economics, international relations, statistics, demography, political science or related fields or bachelor-s degree in a relevant field and five additional years of the relevant professional experience noted above may be substituted.
* Demonstrated expertise in indicator development (including context indicators), data collection and analysis, data quality assessments, and statistical methods.
* Excellent teamwork, interpersonal, communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
* Demonstrated experience to build capacity and train staff in the collection and use of data.
* Demonstrated ability in using monitoring data to review programming, trends, and activity needs and willingness to be flexible and adaptable to respond to new information.
* Substantive experience leveraging performance monitoring data for the improvement of ongoing project management.
* Experience finding and collecting appropriate development data from third party sources.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Ukrainian and/or Russian.
* Demonstrated experience in the creation and use of spreadsheets and databases.
* Local candidates are encouraged to apply.

How to apply:
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